Nigeria

11 February, 2014

In a candid admission of the nation’s inability to independently and strategically channel its enormous resources towards advancement, the government of Nigeria announced the decision to privatize the country’s near-comatose refineries by 2014.

Nigeria’s total production of crude oil fell by 100 million barrels between 2006 and 2008, increasing by the same volume between 2008 and 2011.

On 25 June 1993, the World Conference on Human Rights ended in Vienna, Austria with the adoption of a significant human rights document – the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (VDPA).

One of the many problems that stared the corrective military government of the late General Murtala Ramat Muhammad in the face was the national head count which took place two years before the government came to power in July, 1975.

‘Between an agenda for a national restructuring and 2015 presidential election, my priority will be the convocation of a sovereign national conference.’ – Ayo Opadokun

We read with astonishment and anger that recently discovered Nok sculptures are being displayed for the first time ever in Germany and not in Nigeria where they were discovered.

Following years of controversial archaeological investigations in parts of the Nok valley by German scholars led by Professor Peter Breunig, an exhibition titled ‘Nok. Origin of African Sculpture’ had opened on 30th October, 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany.

Queen-mother Idia, Benin, Nigeria, now in Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany.

We read with great interest a report about the exhibition of Ife art in Swedish National Museums for World Culture, starting 6 September, 2013 for eight months. (1)

Like every house built on fraud, the attempt by the Nigerian ruling class to privatize Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and the electricity sector is already falling flat.