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Before deciding to enter a new market, serious firms do a PESTEL analysis. Twitter must have done that too.Political: how politically stable is Nigeria compared to Ghana?Economic: Would you want

Gowon went on exile in the UK, enrolled at Warwick University - and was seen queuing for food at a student cafeteria. This picture caused a scandal in Nigeria, i.e.

There's a big difference between "socialist", "social democrat" and "communist", but because the world views of so many Nigerians are shaped by US politics, once we hear anything beginning with

The Nigerian Army was never designed to be a "citizen's army". It was designed as a tool for oppression by the colonial masters. It still reflects its colonial heritage -

The key to understanding Nigeria is understanding what the ruling elite fear the most.That is another civil war.What they believe will trigger another civil war are sub-national units strong enough

US cannot commit $1 trillion for financing infrastructure in the developing world, because it is a democracy.Paradoxically, American voters will eagerly spend $1 trillion of their tax dollars on bombing

My first consulting job took me to Kano. We were housed in a guest house. The senior manager was Brazilian, the big boss was Nigerian.The senior manager was automatically housed

In many European nations, the sense of the collective/collective good is very strong. In contrast, large chunks of the US are individualistic. There's this sense of "personal responsibility" (i.e. I'll

Empire is not merely about economics. When the British acquired India, they had to control the route to India (Gibraltar, Suez, Cape Town), establish and control coaling stations on the

Between 1914 and 1945, about 100 million Europeans were killed by wars, genocides, forced starvation and mass purges.So when Douglas Murray & his ilk fret about "the strange death of

The US is a relatively young nation, it is only 243 years old. In contrast, a single dynasty in China (the Zhou) went on for 867 years.The problem with young

As late as 1957 (merely three years before the independence of most African nations), William F. Buckley, a leading Western conservative wrote an article titled, "Why the South must Prevail"