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Businesses, W/African countries await FG as Jan 31 deadline nears Insecurity defies measures as more Nigerians die from ruthless attacks …President must get rid of the service chiefs – Yabagi …Government must be more proactive – Okorie OBINNA EMELIKE and INIOBONG IWOK
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t the height of the Niger Delta militancy crisis, Nigeria was always on global news for the wrong reasons. Then, kidnapping was the order of the day, though targeted at expatriate oil workers in the region whose employers were always willing to negotiate ransom with the particular militant group that kidnapped their staff. Of course, efforts were made to dislodge the groups who often claimed that their
ruthless activities were legitimate as long as the region, which holds Nigeria’s wealth, keeps wallowing in poverty and environmental degradation. While the amnesty programme helped in checking them, it shifted the target to influential locals, whose relations paid huge sums to free them from the hands of the militants. Today, kidnapping for ransom has become a huge business venture, with many cases reported every day across the country and vic-
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Professor Enase Okonedo, dean, Lagos Business School, delivering her inaugural lecture on ‘Complexities of Decision-Making in a Volatile Environment’, at the 10th inaugural lecture of Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos, at the weekend. Pic by Olawale Amoo