Amidst persistent violence, Mutfwang’s stakeholders’ meeting offers little hope for Plateau

In the wake of yet another spate of killings in Plateau State, Governor Caleb Mutfwang convened a meeting with critical stakeholders on Monday, a move that critics argue offers little tangible solution to the decades-long insecurity plaguing the state. Speaking at the event, Mutfwang stated that the meeting aimed at “fashioning out ways of tackling…

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Choices, not chance: Why China is rich, and Nigeria is poor, By Dakuku Peterside 

China China and Nigeria, two continental giants that entered the late 1970s with similar per capita incomes, have since taken opposite economic trajectories. In China, the decisive moment was Deng Xiaoping’s 1978 decision to “open the windows” and let the world’s capital know-how to blow in. In Nigeria, the same decade ushered in the oil…

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