Africa Initiative (NAI) was a merger of two processes which are: the Millennium Africa Recovery Plan (MAP) and the Omega Plan. The MAP originated from the attendance at the G8 meeting in Okinawa‚ Japan in July 2000‚ of Presidents Mbeki (South Africa)‚ Obasanjo (Nigeria) and Bouteflika (Algeria). – Chairpersons at the time of the NAM‚ the G77 and the OAU respectively. Following the Okinawa meeting in Japan‚ OAU requested the three leaders to draft a development plan for the continent. At the World Economic
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The Destruction of African Nation States due to the Western World The western world hindered Africa’s potential to be an economic superpower. The destruction of African nation states illustrates an ongoing struggle and sheds light to many of the major crisis the continent is encountering. Africa’s economic dependency on the global north is a direct result of the western world’s influence throughout the continent. The lack of great productivity on this continent has victimized millions and led
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The debt crisis of Nigeria and Greece Introduction National debt is a problem that can inflict any country including the developed countries. Almost all countries go into budget deficit one way or the other and end up borrowing money. The most direct effect of the government debt is to place a burden on future generations of taxpayers. When these debts and accumulated interest come due‚ future taxpayers will face a difficult choice. Inheriting such a large debt cannot help but lower the living
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fundamental in shaping political life. It is a monopolistic politics as against pluralistic or multiparty politics. It is usually a civilian one - party state or a military dictatorship ( There is overwhelming believe that Obasanjo’ PDP government is shifting towards a full blown one - party state ). It is the politics of Big - Men who are a considerable distance from the ordinary people. Politics of no accountability‚ transparency and responsibility
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2003 general elections‚ Nigeria ’s political parties have been criticized by the media‚ academics‚ observers and the electorate for corrupt and unbridled use of money in politics. The anti-corruption initiatives of the administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo provided a suitable environment for some civil society groups to engage governments and other stakeholders on the issue of corruption and its effect on governance. There exists an awakened consciousness in Nigeria about the danger of political
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ROLE OF NAFDAC IN AIRFREIGHTING IN NIGERIA PRESENTED BY PROFESSOR DORA N. AKUNYILI (OFR) DIRECTOR-GENERAL (NAFDAC) AT A ONE-DAY SEMINAR ON OPTIMISING OPPORTUNITIES FOR AIRFREIGHT IN NIGERIA ORGANISED BY NIGERIAN SHIPPERS’ COUNCIL 24TH AUGUST 2006 INTRODUCTION: It gives me great pleasure to be invited to present a paper at this one day sensitization seminar with Theme Optimizing opportunities in the Airfreight industry‚ organized by the Nigerian Shippers Council for importers/exporters‚ operators
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CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION The British colonialists started the Nigeria public service‚ which later developed in the modern of the British civil service with its doctrine. The design of the civil service was not to work for the Interest of Nigeria and its people but to serve the British colonial interest. It was difficult after independent for the service to evolve good plans for the development of the country. A civil service whose characteristics continued with Max Webber’s ideal type of bureaucracy
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5% in 19988. A poster encouraging sexual abstinence in Nigeria When Olusegun Obasanjo became the president of Nigeria in 1999‚ HIV/AIDS prevention‚ treatment and care became one of the government’s primary concerns. The President’s Committee on AIDS and the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) were created‚ and in 2001‚ the government set up a three-year HIV/AIDS Emergency Action Plan (HEAP). In the same year‚ Obasanjo hosted the Organisation of African Unity’s first African Summit on HIV/AIDS
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civil administrations. On 29 May 1999‚ after a general election which ushered in the present democratic dispensation‚ popularly referred to as “the Fourth Republic”‚ Chief Olusegun Obasanjo‚ a retired Army General and a one-time military Head of State‚ became the President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ruling party‚ the People’s Democratic Party‚ also won the second term after another general election in April 2003. In view of the fact that 28 of Nigeria’s
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think that corruption is “a significant problem in Washington DC.” It seems there is always a new story about a political figure taking a bribe or lying. This has been a thorn in the side of the American political system since its creation. Olusegun Obasanjo wrote‚ “Corruption‚ the greatest single bane of our society today”‚ the corruption in our politics is causing America to regress. The youth in America have the opportunity to change this. By getting more involved in politics America’s youth can
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