Recruitment exercises conducted by many public and private organisations in Nigeria showcase the level of exploitation faced by jobless and job-seeking Nigerians. Those who venture into self-employment are frustrated by the epileptic electricity supply, zero financing, bad road networks, poor transportation system and other unsettling factors…

Some diplomatic observers informed me that when the Nigerian Foreign Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, visited Washington, sometime ago, he was not received by the US Secretary of State, but by a lesser official. According to the doctrine of reciprocity, the Nigerian Foreign Minister “was not disposed to receive” the US Secretary of State at the airport in Abuja…