Nigeria: The dire need of creative destruction
8 years agoTO GO WITH AFP STORY BY CELIA LEBUR Workers watch a caterpillar digging a drainage at the planned Eko Atlantic City, Lagos, on November 22, 2016. With frozen cranes, deserted construction sites and empty buildings, Lagos is suffering a hangover from a construction binge as Nigeria wrestles to overcome a damaging recession. On Eko Atlantic, billed as the largest real estate project in Africa, frenetic construction has slowed to a snail's pace. Dubbed the "Dubai of Africa", the so-called city within a city is being built over 10 square kilometres (3.9 square miles) on tonnes of sand dredged from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
When unity in diversity is being zealously canvassed by people who hope against hope in their belief of Nigeria project, the glaring reality is that the retrogression to the days of Dark Age is steady and the dastardly acts of discord, acrimony, hostility.....