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Author: Bobby Udoh Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781463766887 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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Have you ever wondered why we have so many resources and yet the majority of our people are suffering? Have you wondered why it seems Nigeria's problems are unique? Do you sometimes think Nigeria has no future? You are not alone. There is hope and the hope is you. In this thought provoking yet easy to understand book, Bobby Udoh shows how we can transform Nigeria into the great country we all desire. He identifies nation-building as the solution and takes us through a journey that looks at: - What nation-building really means - Why we must build and why nation-building is key - The core values that build and sustain a great nation - How to implement nation-building in and through our lives - The foundations for nation-building: The Family and Faith - Nation-building real life stories This solution oriented book is for every Nigerian that desires to see Nigeria become a developed nation. Regardless of your age or background, you can become a nation-builder
Author: Bobby Udoh Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781463766887 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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Have you ever wondered why we have so many resources and yet the majority of our people are suffering? Have you wondered why it seems Nigeria's problems are unique? Do you sometimes think Nigeria has no future? You are not alone. There is hope and the hope is you. In this thought provoking yet easy to understand book, Bobby Udoh shows how we can transform Nigeria into the great country we all desire. He identifies nation-building as the solution and takes us through a journey that looks at: - What nation-building really means - Why we must build and why nation-building is key - The core values that build and sustain a great nation - How to implement nation-building in and through our lives - The foundations for nation-building: The Family and Faith - Nation-building real life stories This solution oriented book is for every Nigerian that desires to see Nigeria become a developed nation. Regardless of your age or background, you can become a nation-builder
Author: Charles Akujieze Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1728386462 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 680
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In this painstakingly updated and comprehensive political masterpiece, Charles Nnaemeka Akujieze explores Nigeria's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial history and current affairs in Nigeria politics and administration and presents a nuanced explanation of events and circumstances that have dangerously flung this complex, dynamic and troubled giant to the brink. It is one of the most updated and comprehensive analysis of Africa's most important and populous nation that has been undermined, in recent decades, by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant corruption and an ailing economy.
Author: David Kieghe Publisher: ISBN: 9781787191044 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 294
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Sadly, many people become rich by creating problems. It should be the other way round, solving problems. Grand corruption resulting in 'state capture' increases the vulnerability of citizens and inflicts the most pain on the population. Corruption is the single most important threat to Domestic Policies in Nigeria. It distorts the evidence base and misinforms legislations, policies, regulations, programmes, projects and the activities that drive them. It compromises the impact of social interventions; confusing markets; and business environment. It weakens social, economic, political and environmental systems and leaves Nigerians and Nigeria weak. Corruption is the Master Problem, fuelled by excessive greed, patronage and loyalty networks operating at the expense of national interest. This book proposes the Triple Lock against corruption, contributing new perspectives to addressing fundamental structural deficits that provide the incentives, motivations and opportunities to express corrupt behaviour. Nigeria requires a systematic, holistic and integrated approach to radically reduce the corruption burden that drags Nigeria back. With a large population of young people and huge natural capital, Nigeria potentially has unique assets and opportunities to build a fairer and more progressive country and to tap into the hardwork, ingenuity and resilience of its diverse population. But Nigeria will have to work differently to realise THE FULL POTENTIAL for which it is capable. Working differently would mean unlocking value chains currently locked-in in all the sectors of the Nigerian economy, to improve quality and drive demand and supply of locally made goods and services; promoting enterprise; creating decent jobs; pursuing progressive taxation policies; and building a self-sustaining country that can pay its way and voice its own worldview. The possibilities are enormous, but first, Nigeria needs a smarter government and governance intelligence that knows every Nigerian to invest in them as most important assets; drive efficiency and innovation; operating transparent and accountable systems; joining up government and reducing silo-vertical working that promotes opacities; removing bottlenecks that stifle creativity and ideas to markets; reducing inequalities and inequities; ensuring social justice and solidarity; and enabling the best of Nigeria to emerge and to altogether, thrive. This is the big challenge right now, to define the future!
Author: Daron Acemoglu Publisher: Currency ISBN: 0307719227 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 546
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.
Author: Olagbenro Michael Oladipo Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This dissertation, Grand Visions: Nationhood and Citizenship in Postcolonial Nigeria, investigates the postcolonial dynamics of citizenship and nation-building in Nigeria. In Grand Visions, I argue that Britain, Nigeria's colonizers, invented Nigeria to be a corporation, not a nation; and because of this, postcolonial Nigerian leaders have to devise malleable strategies to imagine a nation and constitute citizenship from the invention they inherited from Britain. One of those strategies, I argue, is the production and circulation of grand discourses of nationhood and belonging through investments in mega infrastructures and foreign policy interventions. This strategy enables Nigerian leaders to constitute a modern nation out of Nigeria and project it as the "hope of the black race" in the mind of Nigerians and the world. On the other hand, I examine discourses in vernacular spaces that Nigerians employ to (re)negotiate and resist their leaders' visions of the nation. Chapter One ("Building Babel...") and Chapter Two ("Conceptual Clarifications...") introduce the concepts and theories that underpin this project. In Chapter Three, "Giant of Africa...," I foreground how Nigeria leverages its geographic and demographic size to produce and circulate "mega rhetoric" of giantness and leadership of Nigeria as the destined leader of the black race. The chapter builds on scholarship in constitutive rhetoric to examine "constitutive visions" of nationhood in Nigeria's postcolonial foreign policy. By focusing on foreign policy, I extend the tools of constitutive rhetorical analysis to an often-ignored (in rhetorical studies) but commonplace domain of nation-building: foreign policy. Furthermore, by investigating the dynamics of national identity formation in postcolonial Nigeria, I propose a rethink of "constitutive invitation." I argue that identity-constituting discourses (such as foreign policy statements) in heterogenous societies like Nigeria are not always targeted at "subjects" with a "shared history, motives, and a telos," as it is often imagined by rhetorical scholars. Chapter Four, "Constitutive Development..." highlights the fascination with developmental rhetoric in postcolonial Nigeria and underscores how the desire to create a national identity often translates into grand visions of development and infrastructure. This chapter argues that development in postcolonial Nigeria is both a metaphor and material to suggest progress and modernity. The chapter builds on the analysis of the built environment and speeches from Nigerian leaders. Here, I conclude that built spaces are rhetorical, especially in the work of postcolonial nation-building and defining notions of citizenship, because they have the communicative power to trigger a social imaginary of the nation as one in people's minds-spaces have the power to make people believe that they are a part of something bigger. Chapter Five, "(Un)making the Giant...," investigates constitutive identification and disidentification. Specifically, it examines the alternative spaces (pirate radios, Internet, protest grounds, etc.) where citizens respond to and renegotiate state-owned narratives about what it means to be a Nigerian. Here, I analyze the rhetorical practices of Nigerians in alternative spaces to reveal how they are questioning and renegotiating state-owned notions of nationhood and citizenship. This chapter also highlights how the Nigerian State identifies individuals and groups that resist the dominant narratives of nationhood. This chapter ultimately argues that alternative spaces that are out of state control enable Nigerians to perform citizenship in their own way and resist government ideas of the nation. Ultimately, in Grand Vision, I make two contributions to rhetorical studies and citizenship studies. First, I extend the conversations on the need for rhetoricians to expand the breadth of the field by applying the tools of rhetoric to realities in non-western rhetorical traditions. Second, I note that for postcolonial societies like Nigeria with huge ethnic and geographic diversity, the process of defining citizenship and nation-building is a difficult one. Such a process often contradicts popular notions of citizenship and nation-building and relies on the plasticity of rhetoric. This plasticity, I conclude, affords postcolonial African states and their citizens opportunities to re/imagine notions of citizenship and nationhood.
Author: Mark Izevbekhai Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1504995449 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 487
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Strategies for the Sustainable Transformation of Developing Countries attempts a holistic-solution approach through sustainable development concepts and principles to address challenges in developing countries. In fact, the book is the application of sustainable development, and thus it offers strategies that could be applied to the development and transformation of social, economical, and environmental dimensions of society using the example of Nigeria, a developing country in West Africa. The book is divided into five parts, coveringcritical subjects of development which include education, government and good governance, community security, leadership, and community development. It provides answers to how sustainable development can bring change and benefits to these subject matters within the context of developing countries, using Nigeria as an example. This book is very different from many other book written on the challenges of development, particularly on African countries, in the sense that it gives priority to solutions and mapping them out in a feasible, sustainable, and practical way. The cornerstone of the book is the emphatic suggestion of a national transition initiative programme and Sustainable Community development Programme to drive sustainable development from the top and the bottom of society respectively.
Author: Victor Udo, FNSE Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc. ISBN: 1646540395 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 140
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Nearly four decades after Sunny Okosun posited, Which Way Nigeria? Victor Udo serves up a geopolitical literary gem that should be required reading for Nigerian students, policy makers, and civil servants. Which Way Nigeria? navigates post-colonial political and diplomatic conditions, class structure and economic organization, Nigerian culture and the diversity of its ethnic groups, and the environment. Writing from a place of unrelenting patriotism for his homeland, Udo outlines his framework Comprehensive Sustainable Development Planning and Implementation (CSDPI) praxis, through which Nigeria’s structural, leadership and development challenges can finally be overcome. Often referred to as the Giant of Africa, Nigeria is the most populous country on the continent and the seventh most populous country in the world. With more than 90 million of its population under the age of eighteen and the world's eighth largest oil producer, Nigeria is on the precipice of becoming a dominant force in the global economy. But its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant corruption and an ailing economy. Udo relies on his expertise as a foremost authority on climate change mitigation as a path towards global sustainability, thoughtfully scrutinizing the critical interdependence of politics, society, technology and the environment. A collective call to action for fellow patriots, Which Way Nigeria? illuminates the resilience of nearly 200 million Nigerian citizens with incredible unrealized potential. Masterfully examining the geopolitical context of a fragmented contemporary Nigeria, Udo offers solutions for a path forward that will elevate his homeland and establish it as a unified global force in which all citizens can prosper.
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