When embarking on the privatisation exercise meant to restructure its economic system, the Tanzanian government had pledged to remain as a partner that would be responsible for ensuring working economic policies and providing appropriate infrastructure for the private sector to build the economy upon.
As tension grips the nation over planned deregulation of the oil sector and the privatisation of the country's refineries, the Education rights Campaign (ERC) has threatened to mobilise Nigerian students and youths for nationwide protest actions and lecture boycotts should government fail to halt this policy.
Franklin Cudjoe, Founding Director of IMANI and editor of www.AfricanLiberty.org gave a talk on Property Rights and Freedom to a 170 selected audience at the British Council Hall in Ghana in July 2009. Below is a typewritten version of Franklin's talk.
The decision of the Federal Government to fully deregulate the country's downstream petroleum sector has encountered serious opposition because government is putting the cart before the horse.
Cross River State Government will privatise its ultra-modern poultry farm at Ikot Effanga Mkpa, Calabar, currently valued at over N30million.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), yesterday advised the Federal Government to shelve the planned deregulation of the downstream oil sector for now, noting that unless the nation's refineries become functional, deregulation would create more problems for both Nigerians and the government.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua says if passed into law, the Petroleum Industry Bill before the National Assembly will reposition the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Kenya's plan to privatise the port of Mombasa is off to a rocky start with a group of members of parliament from the Coast province calling for its stoppage.
Parliament will, after all, have the final say on whether Mombasa port will be privatised or not, a parliamentary committee said on Thursday.
President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Oyo State Chapter, Archbishop Joseph Akinfenwa has decried the planned deregulation of the petroleum sector by the federal government saying it is not the solution to Nigeria's ailing economy, saying it will lead the country into chaos.
From the portents and signals, Nigeria seems not far from the throes of another contrived eruption. Already, there's a lot of sabre rattling that reminds one of those days in school when the aluta continua slogan was 'we no go gree o, we no go gree!' Self appointed champions of the people are already positioning themselves for talk shows, interviews, even street demonstrations where they will rail ...
Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) has said one of the major reasons for rejecting the deregulation policy of the Federal Government is because of its firm belief that corruption and self aggrandisement are the major problems of the country's oil industry, and not subsidy.
The proposed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), has continued to receive knocks from stakeholders and other concerned individuals and groups with workers in the upstream sector of the petroleum industry faulting among others, the absence of specific provisions on expatriate quota and local manpower training.
