Indeed whichever direction Lagos heads is where Nigeria might go. Therefore, assuming more states and indeed the federal government will borrow a cue and do little bit, one step at a time like; fixing power shortages, rebuilding broken infrastructure,... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/051609.html
The track record of emerging markets like China, India or Brazil should be a good benchmark for Nigeria and indeed Africa. That experience is showing a road map on how countries in this millennium would leapfrog their way out of backwardness through the... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/052606.html
Even critics abroad openly acknowledge that Africa is a continent waiting to take-off. My fear is that such dreams might never be actualized in the foreseeable future with the kind of lack luster experience we have seen in Nigeria during the last 2-3... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/042610.html
The current situation in Nigeria reminds you of pre-1999 after demise of President Abacha and emergence of transition government led by General Abdulsalam Abubakar. The situation today leaves Nigeria very limited choice and little room for error. It does... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/050510.html
How long do people have to wait before the basic dividends of democracy (affordable housing, jobs, accessible healthcare, clean water, electricity etc) reach their doorsteps? Moreso is the administration tactfully analyzing how the world economy is... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/042108.html
The last census figures when published will buttress certain demographic assumptions about Nigeria; that, after forty years of co-habiting the geographic expanse called Nigeria, people have continuously been integrating, that a growing portion of... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/050806.html
Despite the fact that no one is born or breed to hate themselves or their kind, experience shows that, some times as Africans in the Diaspora attain higher level of economic success and climb the social ladder, they gradually start to lose consciousness of... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/042605.html
Since the discovery of crude oil by Shell BP in a little village called Oloibiri in 1958, Nigeria has earned well over $250bn from oil exports, but life has never been the same for the indigenous communities around the Niger Delta region - their conditions... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/042504.html
As the largest gas-flaring nation on earth, research estimates that 2.5 billion standard cubic feet of gas is burnt daily in Nigeria. Equivalent to the total gas consumption of Pakistan or 25% of UK gas consumption. This flaring represents an annual... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/050905.html
If you ask me, the worst democratic system is better than the best military dictatorship, but when democracy and pluralism fail to yield positive consequences, then its desirability and purpose is called to question, like in Nigeria.... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/051904.html