Odilim Enwegbara

I never believed in the so-called vision 20:2020 for the reason that it wasn't originally ours; and that was why having Yar’Adua’s seven point agenda anchored on the vision for me was simply mere political rhetoric...

Nigeria should seek some unconventional solutions to tackling its power problem. The most plausible way to putting the present power problem behind us is to seek sovereign loans from countries like China, using the country's oil reserves as strategic collateral...

To start development planning in Nigeria, the President should as a matter of urgency, elevate the Minister of National Planning as both Planning and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, while the Minister of Finance should focus on finance, which is already huge enough to keep the occupant very busy...

We have been suffering from an oil wealth illusion. Because oil money flows without the people or the government involved, we've developed an entitlement mentality. Since some distant nations and people provide us with oil money we prodigally spend, we also believe that the same foreigners should be the ones responsible for our country's development...

Is an economy with high interest rates, high inflation rates, and high unemployment rates growing? Should a highly import dependent and infrastructure deficient economy, be economy?

I'm writing on behalf of disenfranchised Nigerians. I'm writing to bring to the attention of those in government that millions of our frustrated youth and their powerless parents have nowhere else to look than their government...

Like China before Deng's economic revolution, Nigeria today tops the world’s corruption, unemployment, and rundown economic charts. Also like China before its economic revolution, Nigeria today is littered with graveyards of innumerable policy somersaults...

Before 2015, let's send the present incompetent economic team home along with their obsolete textbook development theories. In their place should be a team of vibrant goal-getters, whose mission should be expected to be in complete harmony with our economic patriotism...