Babatunde Fashola, Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria, delivered a speech at SAIS yesterday that was notable for its detailed (although somewhat rambling) account of his administration’s successes and challenges as well the issues facing the greater Federal Government of Nigeria. He was critical of the excessive power of the central government in Abuja and also appeared to revel in nostalgia for the supposedly more orderly Nigeria of his youth in the 1960s, which I understood Continue reading
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