Joel Nwokeoma

I am a researcher, journalist, budget and public policy analyst, working with one of the most widely circulated newspapers in Nigeria. A Masters degree holder in Political Science from University, I was the immediate past executive director, Concerned Professionals Ltd/Gte, an NGO based in Lagos. My articles, comments and opinions are widely published in newspapers, online journals, magazines both within and outside Nigeria.
Nigeria Matters

Nigeria @ 49: Still in the state of nature

Joel Nwokeoma -
It is startling that almost half a century after independence, Nigerians from Aba to Yaba, Uyo to Oyo, Ariaria to Zaria, not those infinitesimally privileged ones holed up in the many government houses across the country, still subsist in human, and at times dehumanizing, conditions that approximate the state of nature...
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Nigeria and the MDGs: Beyond the question of funds

Joel Nwokeoma -
Over the years, Nigeria had acted as if achieving the Millennium Development Goals was solely the responsibility of the Federal Government through an instrumentality that barely possesses the required capacity...
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Can Nigeria implement a social security scheme?

Joel Nwokeoma -
In what could be said to be a major paradigm shift in Nigeria’s poverty reduction strategy, the Federal Government last March empanelled a National Working Committee on Social Security Policy headed by former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, to advise it on the modalities of implementing a social security programme in the country...
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Corruption: Between Diepreye Alamieyesegha and Bernard Madoff

Joel Nwokeoma -
Without any prodding, President Yar’Adua promised, while campaigning for election, to declare a state of emergency on power 100 days into office. It is now two years and months after...
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Why Nigeria may not meet the Millennium Development Goals

Joel Nwokeoma -
The assurances of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua notwithstanding, an indication of the possibility of Nigeria not achieving the Millennium Development Goals was given recently...
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Yar’Adua’s Budget Battle with the National Assembly

Joel Nwokeoma -
Just as many predicted when President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua signed the 2009 Appropriation Bill into law last March, the Executive and Legislative arms of government at the federal level have, for the umpteenth time, locked themselves in a largely unhelpful muscle-flexing over the implementation of the national budget...
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Has Nigeria Lost The War Against Corruption?

Joel Nwokeoma -
Many analysts are of the view that if the Obasanjo administration was “selective” in the anti-graft war, President Yar’Adua has simply failed, two years in office, to dispel the widespread observation that he lacks the steel and political will to prosecute the war...
Nigeria Matters

Odyssey Of An Unworkable Budget

Joel Nwokeoma -
Days before President Umaru Yar’Adua literally wept openly over alleged bastardisation of the 2009 Budget by the National Assembly, indications were rife that the visibly discontented President would head to the Supreme Court...
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