Agriculture was a flourishing export earner at independence in 1960, but Nigeria is now the second-largest market in the world for rice.Taking on the big menEven more than plain mismanagement, it is the corrupt politicians, the "big men", who have squandered the oil wealth.
Disagree with him, even mildly, and he would denounce you as politically corrupt, intellectually dishonest or plain evil.
Barbara Kellerman, of Harvard University's Centre for Public Leadership, who is developing a typology of bad leadership, says there is an astonishing willingness to tolerate leaders who are corrupt, stupid or just plain nasty.But what makes a good leader?
You never know when your card is going to be corrupted, stolen, or just plain lost.
In both the brave soldiers in the field must contend with corrupt (in Bulletstorm) or just plain timid (in Killzone 3) senior officers on their own sides.
But that just leaves plain the shortcomings in Mexico's legal system: corrupt police, and laws designed to help those in power stay in it.
The Khodorkovsky affair long ago erased any notion in Russia of an independent judiciary; it made plain that the courts do the bidding of a corrupt hierarchy that will stop at little to enrich itself.
Also in News Focus, Mara Hvistendahl exposed a "thriving academic black market in China involving shady agencies, corrupt scientists, and compromised editors many of them operating in plain view.
Science has exposed a thriving academic black market in China involving shady agencies, corrupt scientists, and compromised editors many of them operating in plain view.
He told VICE News: "The so-called investment of corrupt capital into UK property is a scandal in plain view, and the kleptocracy tour is a great way to highlight what is staring us all in the face.
