Nigeria’s Tragic Political Failure But Greater Economic Potential: Nigerian People Must Liberate Their Land
March 31, 2014 | Latest Featured Articles
By Doug Bandow| – PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA — I stepped into the elevator to head down for dinner. It jerked to a stop and went silent, leaving me in darkness. The finest hotel in Nigeria’s Houston, the hub of the country’s large and profitable oil industry, could not escape periodic power outages. A few very long seconds later brightness returned as the hotel’s emergency generator kicked in and the elevator continued its journey. My experience in the capital of Abuja was no different. I interviewed …