The just concluded G20 meeting held in Bueno Aires, Argentina, November 30th – December 1st 2018 was, in some sense, a victory for the brash, in-your-face approach to diplomacy by US President, Donald Trump. His “America first” election mantra was put to the brute test of international trade negotiation – and appears to have come up trumps (excuse the expression). That the so-called G20 did not disintegrate into squabbling rumps has to represent triumph in itself. America, under Donald Trump, is a country loathed by many trading nations in the world, but it is also a country they know…
Author: Tayo Oke
His Execellency, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike is the Executive Governor of Rivers State, the second richest state in the Federation after Lagos. Apart from derivations from oil, and monthly allocation from the centre, it has an Internally Generated Revenue close to 100 billion naira annually. For this and other reasons, it places whoever is the state governor at the centre of their party’s politics as a major financier; every governor supposedly being “leader” of the party at the state level. If there is any state that has the potential for becoming the proverbial shiny city on the hill in Nigeria, it…
