Grandiose Parlor

“President Yar’Adua described his perceived slowness as “a process of learning. [He] also dismissed the thinking of many Nigerians that he is slow, stating that it is a matter of time before Nigerians appreciate the efforts he is putting towards planning.” - Media reports.
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As I watch the American democracy in play, the passion […]

The BBC interview of Nigerian president Yar’Adua reveals a very critical fact about the country’s epileptic electricity supply:
Three finished gas-fuelled power stations are unable to generate electricity because Nigeria has sold all its gas for export, the president said.
These deals with international oil companies would have to be renegotiated over seven years, he added.
“It […]

You can’t beat this:
Fresh facts are now emerging on why President Umaru Yar’Adua has found it difficult to move faster in the implementation of his agenda.
365 days after the change of government, Yar’Adua has still not received any formal handover note around which his plans and actions can be anchored.
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Nigeria needs at least 20,000MW in order to provide electricity to majority of its 140 million people. Information from Nigeria indicates power supply is now at an all-time low of about 1800MW! It used to be around 2000MW last year. The drop has been attributed to inadequate supply of natural gas.
Consider Nigeria’s evergreen power problem […]

In other countries, politics is a vehicle for effecting change, in Nigeria, it is a means of economic survival. We have politics and politicians, but we do not yet have democracy, and so, every May 29, we can only gape as the politicians describe the bore holes that they have sunk, the street lights that […]