Today, I heard on World Business Today that Nigeria is about to pay off her debt, due in no small part to the efforts of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to the London Club, having made previous arrangements to pay off her debt to the Paris Club, on the back of high oil prices for her deliciously named Bonny Light Crude. It's wonderful to know that Nigeria is finally making sure the proceeds of her enormous wealth benefit the country and ultimately, her wonderful people.
Nigeria gets an unnecessarily bad rap (just like Colombia) because a handful (1 in every 6 Africans is Nigerian) of her extremely intelligent people engage in nefarious activities. As someone who has visited the wonderful city of Abuja, TWICE, I speak from first hand experience. Abuja is how an African capital city should be and one can see that the emphasis was definitely on the planning - I shall wax lyrical about Abuja in a later blog.
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