Archive for the 'Economic Development' Category

CONFRONTING THE CHALLENGES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, PEACE AND VULNERABILITY OF MULTI – NATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN NIGERIA

November 19, 2007

By Paul Adepelumi, Executive Director, African Centre for Advocacy and Human Development (ACAHD).
An examination of Nigerian statutes would reveal that the major constituents of the laws which touch upon the exploration and production of petroleum date back to the Mineral Oil Act of 1914 which was promulgated to regulate the right to search for [...]

Women Entrepreneurship as a tool for Economic Development in Nigeria

July 13, 2007

By Paul A. Adepelumi, Esq., Executive Director, African Centre for Advocacy and Human Development (ACAHD)

Nigeria holds the unenviable record of having her 85 million people of her 120 million people living in abject poverty. To control the this scourge, several Nigerian government have adopted and implemented various poverty alleviation programs dating back to oil boom [...]