L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu

Arizona-Ogwu writes from Oyigbo, Rivers State, Nigeria.

Downstream Petroleum Deregulation: Options and Constraints

Nigeria is facing a major fuel crisis following the deregulation plan of this government. The energy industry and our refineries lag well behind other sectors such as agriculture, eatery houses, oil-ware supply, ports and motorways in undertaking an open policy...

Rain Flood: The Port Harcourt Experience!

Daily surfeit of rain in the southern part of Nigeria has blighted a-yet-to-come dry season. An attached flood has again brought problems for householders in low-lying areas of the coastal cities, towns and villages...

Nigeria Clocks 49: Everything Looks like Eyewash!

After 49 years of self-rule, Nigeria becomes a very disorderly place where no plan works and no vision is materialized in a substantive way. There is nothing like Left corruption or Right corruption. Politicians of all hues and their collaborators covet oil-money and love to make a fast buck...

This Government Is Pointless!

The advancement of Nigeria and the success of its government will remain a mere dream unless everyone put the national agenda or interest over personal ones. Are the people who run this government so insecure in their sense of power that they have to go around picking on the least fortunate in our society?

Troubled Banks: Contending 2011 Money-Politics!

Perhaps banks should not be allowed to grow so large that they cannot be allowed to fail. My recollection is that until about 2 years ago we had such regulations. Banks were prohibited from getting too large and engaging in risky investments with depositors' money...

Strong Nigeria, Wrong Impression!

The effort to rebrand Nigeria may appear fruitless if public trust remains in the dark corner. My home-country, Nigeria embarked on a course of liberal economic reform that was impressive by developing-country standards and remarkable by its own. Four years later, much remain to be done...


Shamble Education Can't Save Young Nigerians!

The collapse of the education system in Nigeria is indicative of the general collapse and retreat of the state. A strong influence of the state's political and economical affairs!

And Death-Trap Becomes A House!

Nigeria is a country littered with illegal buildings and construction eyesores. Experts blame the use of low-quality cement and inadequate supporting iron rods. Tens of thousands of office complexes, schools and hospitals are at risk...

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