Africa: The Trouble With Nigeria

16 January 2012
opinion

Africa, Africa my heart bleeds for you! With the kind of leadership that we have who will need enemies? With the media reports that we are getting from Nigeria, Africa we needs to wake up, we really need a paradigm shift in the way we do things.

Nigeria is the largest producer of crude oil in Africa yet recently the fuel prices doubled after the government, at the behest of the International Monetary Fund, removed subsidies. Price increases aside, the fact that Nigeria imports fuel boggles my mind.

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