Vanguard (Lagos)
1 November 2008
One major problem in Nigeria's business environment is inadequate power supply. This and other factors are responsible for the problems and low performance of small scale enterprises and these problems seem to have to defied all efforts by government to address them.
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That is why we keep hammering it home for this brain-dead administration to do something soon. We have already given up on Malam tarry-a-doer's 7-point agenda, because he does not have the brain capacity to figure out how to bring them about. In lieu, we asked him to focus just on adequate power supply and resolve the Niger Delta impasse. Nigerians are not lazy nor dumb nor corrupt nor waiting for govt handouts. Instead, Nigerians are hard working, bright, independent thinking and productive lots. Given the right impetus like mere power supply and peace, our entrepreneurs will soar to dominate not only West African economy but the whole of Africa's. The only thing that is holding us back is our govt. Even the Clergy have pleaded for the Presidency to do something b4 they killed the enterprising spirit of our peoples. The ordinary Hausa/Fulanis are excellent business people - look at Dangote and the Dantatas. The Igbos are excellent machinists that can adapt all kinds of engineering tools to make products that can rival the best in the world. So are the Yorubas. B4 our political elites stunt the growth of our future generation with skullduggery with which they’ve already cowed the current generation into submission into mind-numbing work like Okada-drivers-for-life or praise-singers of corrupt elites, we owe our entrepreneurs a duty to stand up against the enemies of the state - the Nigerian government. Thanks to newspapers like the Vanguard for bringing stories like this one to the attention of the nation’s conscience and hoping that the govt is reading these handwritings on the wall, as well, so they can do something b4 it is too late, for events like this cannot continue indefinitely. Today’s political and economic environment in Nigeria is reminiscent of the eve of the French Revolution – there is always a calm b4 the storm of the century.