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The technology involved in extracting crude from oil wells, the process of refining, the myriad of pipes interlacing each other through which the refined oil are transported to various depots, the combustible nature of refined oil, the possibility of spill, are what make up-stream and down-stream activities hazardous to both animate and inanimate objects within a given environment...
What baffles me is that Obasanjo did not consider the way and manner he emerged as the Presidential Candidate of the PDP in his first term as unfortunate in view of its implication of generating animosity and rancor...
If it is now agreed that NNPC should be privatized so that the field is left open for private participation in upstream activities in Nigeria, then caution must be exercised. Otherwise we may end up vesting economic power on few individuals which may become counter-productive...
What are the justifications for allowing a few members of the UN to reject a proposed measure of the UNSC through a veto power without qualification? The justification for such sweeping powers may only be explained informally on speculation...
The suggestion that the federal government should dialogue with Boko Haram sect is not a bad idea. The government's reluctance to initiate such dialogue is also not mistaken...
In view of the penchant of most people in elective offices and sensitive positions in our public offices to amass wealth and the huge amounts of money usually involved in such official corruption and scam, caution should always be exercised in appointing heads of anti-graft agencies...
Corruption in Nigeria has become so widespread with its depleting effect on the economic development of the country that insistence on legalism in the war against it may at times be counterproductive...
By Akintunde Adewoye
Power is not just a tool to...
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