There are many new measures from  the interior minister under Rauf Aregbesola to mitigate the paralysis associated with Nigerian passport issuance and renewal. Here, Samuel summarizes them; the minister’s full statement on click.

“… the launch of Temporary Passport (TP), as a replacement of the former Emergency Travel Certificate. .. a special Passport Intervention exercise, to mitigate the strains of passport renewal on Nigerians abroad … Aregbesola said the Ministry has also approved front offices at the airports, where Nigerians who arrive in the country with expired passports can have their passports renewed immediately.”

Of course do not celebrate, Nigeria cannot be so low to still be figuring out how to issue passports to its citizens when others are going to the moon. I am not posting this to commend any minister or government, I am posting it to encourage those who are looking for help on this.

In my alma mater, FUTO, if you fail MTH 101 and PHY 101, you will add an extra year before you can graduate irrespective of whatever becomes of your grades afterwards. So that Nigeria is still wasting efforts to master how to print passports is not defensible. Yes, there are mistakes and things we ought to have graduated from!

We all need to be ashamed of how low Nigeria has gone!

The Nigerian Passport Challenge: The Ministry of Interior Announces Passport Issuance At Airports

In our contemporary business scene, one of the most important factors of production is knowledge. Knowledge defines everything – and companies with abundance of it typically thrive. No company can rise above its ability to accumulate, process, and apply knowledge. Interestingly, the knowledge of firms is found in its workforce. So, the workforce is what determines the growth and prosperity of all companies. You cannot overemphasize on the need to build, nurture, and accelerate the right team.

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This data of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of Nigerian states (closely) tracks the state GDPs and also the per capita income. Using this data you can see how you can build a business in the nation. Yes, while we are in the same nation, the economy of Nigeria is extremely heterogeneous that Lagos has no core relationship with Bauchi.

Like I tell startup founders, why rush to some African capitals when the economy of Eti Osa local government in Lagos could be more than the whole of some capitals? This is the fact: depending on what you do, Lagos, Abuja, PHC and Kano will deliver the alpha.

After those four, you have Onitsha, Ibadan, and Kaduna; Maiduguri is off unfortunately. Uyo, Asaba and Aba are looking from outside to inside. Simply, you need to understand the economic geography of Nigeria to thrive.

Source: Nairametrics research