Tag: Nigeria Federal Government

A Wake-up Call for Nigeria

• January 10, 2010 • Comments (1)
Nigerian map showing states with sharia laws (in green).

In my last post titled “The New US Security Measures for Nigerians“, I wrote about the negative consequences many Nigerians will have to face because of Abdumutallab’s plot to bomb a US airplane on December 25th 2009. Even though these measures are necessary to help prevent any similar plot, they don’t do enough to help [...]

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"FG to Give 10 Percent Oil Revenue to Niger Deltans"

• October 20, 2009 • Comments (0)
"FG to Give 10 Percent Oil Revenue to Niger Deltans"

This sounds more like a joke than real. The Federal Government to give 10% of oil revenue to Niger Deltans? Well, maybe the government is finally waking up. Maybe it’s finally realizing that it’s impossible to attain peace in Nigeria when the states that bring in more revenue are in worse shape than the rest [...]

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