Twitter's decision to establish its Africa headquarters in Ghana and Amazon's plan to set up its HQ in South Africa, should come as no surprise to the Nigerian government, which has no one to blame but itself.
Something Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said recently reminded me of British political journalist Andrew Marr. Journalism, Marr wrote in his book, My Trade, is a chaotic form of earning, ragged at the edges, full of snakes, con artists and even the occasional misunderstood martyr.
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