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Agriculture will not redeem Nigeria; we do not live to eat, we eat to live, love, create and be happy.

Some Onitsha kids were asked what they would do if they grow and become wealthy. Their answers hovered around getting fully-furnished homes, cars, private-jets, industries, companies and luxuries for themselves and their relatives. Nobody mentioned food, probably because food was not seen as an achievement, instead a source of physical energy for life achievements. Though […]

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Reshaping civil government for a new Nigeria

Different countries have football bodies that organize matches and other activities between teams in their country. The different football teams are owned, managed and directed by individuals or groups, who set up or acquire them. All these teams register with their national football governing body, who sets them up with other teams (local/global) for matches. […]

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Political parties and the distraction from development in Nigeria

Car racing happens very often on major roads, even between people who had not initially set out to compete. However, when a car does not have the wheels on one side, the car moves in circles instead of moving forward. Personalities and ideologies (ideals) are two sides upon which groups, institutions, political parties and societies […]

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Entrepreneurship for Nigeria on a borrowed foundation: E dey patch am, e dey leak

Since the arrival of this millennium, entrepreneurship has been prescribed as the main cure of poverty in Nigeria.[1] Following advices from foreign ‘experts’,[2] different regimes preach and fund few Nigerians to pursue entrepreneurship. Also, several foreign aid packages and fellowships for Africans attach entrepreneurship as a major condition for sponsorship. They insist that entrepreneurship developed […]

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Adjusting waste management for development and safety in Nigeria

Nature creates, regenerates, heals, recycles, and thus, abhors vacuum or waste. This natural process is designed to take care of itself such that everything in nature is usable for other purposes. Like a machine, nature takes different lengths of time to convert and use everything for other purposes. While “wasted-food” and dead-plants become manure in […]

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