Nigeria’s Vision 20:2020 and America’s Failed-State Prediction

 Also published in DAILY TRUST

Back in 2005, The US National Intelligence Council predicted the outright collapse of Nigeria by the year 2015. However on its part, Nigeria launched an “ambitious” initiative (i.e. Vision 2020) designed to take the country into the list of the best 20 economies in the world by 2020. There is of course an unmistakable contradiction between America’s prediction and Nigeria’s vision, and it is pretty clear that, reconciling these two predictions is absolutely impossible.

Panacea to the Boko Haram crisis

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When recently a Facebook friend cynically threatened to report the state governments that refuse to pay the 18,000 minimum naira wage, to Boko Haram, I found her comment quite funny indeed. And even when I read how a self-acclaimed radical Islamic scholar in Kano retracted a “negative” comment he reportedly made against Boko Haram, after he had apparently realized the possible consequences, I still never thought that Boko Haram evoked such scare in people.