Eguria

" style="line-height: normal; tab-stops: 93.0pt; text-align: justify;"> OF DONORS AND PLUNDERERS                                The historic 27 th OAU Summit has come and gone.   It was historic in many respects.   For the first time, Abuja, the fledgling Nigerian capital with a traditional panoramic view of concrete and greenery, opened up with flags and hunting to host more than 20 African heads of government.   Also for the first time since the OAU was founded in 1963, a summit of this type recorded unprecedented attendance by incumbent heads of government as opposed to the usual jamboree of representatives.                                Most importantly, the just-concl...

IS WORLD INTEGRATION INCREASING? " style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">              It has been argued that the post-modern global tribal system is moving toward a higher level of integration; the world of nation-states is obsolescent and is being superseded. Others have countered that the nation-state is not declining; on the contrary, nationalism shows a new momentum, both as the disintegrator of empires and as the force which shapes the relations of new nations to each other and to their member units. It is as important in the communist parts of the world as it is in Western ones; it helped to transform monocentric blocs into poli-centric ones, if not to split them outright. Many of the arguments advanced to support the first proposition that the nation state system is obsolescent – are phrases in dichotomous, imprecise, and a – sociological terms.   The dichotomous approach can be seen in the controve...

MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT: A Problem on our Hands Degradation of the environment, man-made and natural, is a continuing process. More than anything else, it occurs very slowly; and this perhaps explains why we don’t seem to bother ourselves about it. Yet the process pushes on steadily, flashing red signals of impending disaster for mankind. " style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">              In the northern parts of Nigeria, the Sahara Desert has been inching its way southwards eating up the once lush Sudan savannah. But, the ability of the citizen to plant a tree and nurture it to a healthy growth – that is a directive by the government – depends on the availability of water. Here, that water even for basic domestic use is a rare commodity. The story in the south offers an equally cold-comfort. Here, everyone goes about obviously unaware of the looming crisis. The forest or their secondary and tertiary replace...