: See what a lopsided and emotionally-laden national security policy cost Nigeria in Japan? Now, the Japanese, out of due consideration for the safety of lives and investment, will invest in a Toyota factory in Ghana and, as expected, Nigerians will queue up to purchase their latest status symbols to show off before their wretched masses.
Of course, that “house” is Nigeria and the expected orderliness are strong and decisive actions against Boko Haram and Fulani terrorists; But, no, this Mr. Buhari who desires to “lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next ten years” does not know that that “lifting out” actually begins by encouraging Foreign Direct Investments in-country.
Or, is it the prevailing notion up here that FDIs, because of their stringent manpower requirements stipulating good qualifications and commitments to working hard, will mainly benefit the educated and the gritty people of Southern Nigeria that becomes so overriding for national security-policy considerations? This wrong-footed overriding national security-policy considerations are such that the military of today is feeding fat on deceptive “victories” and “anti-banditry drones?” So long the...
But does this fact even matter to the Northern Establishment that now has a firm grip over Nigeria’s collective national wealth in the shapes of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation , the Nigerian Ports Authority , the sovereign wealth fund, just to name a few? The last thing on the mind of a religiously-focused North is economic growth that benefits the “unbelievers.