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IS NIGERIA STRUCTURE FIT FOR PURPOSE? Conversation with Amaka Anku on her Podcast
Amaka Anku is a friend that my wife and I enjoy hanging out with. She is bright, intense, down-to-earth, proudly Igbo and Nigerian and a committed wife and mother. Whenever we meet in Abuja at my dining table or downtown DC restaurant it is always intense and the engagement always leaves us gasping for breath.
Amaka grew up in Enugu and loves to spend her holidays with her children in the Southeast. *She holds a bachelor's degree from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a doctor of law degree from Harvard Law School. She is as bright as they come.
Amaka is an adjunct professor at Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service, and she teaches a graduate course on political risk analysis. She is also a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Currently, she works with the Eurasia Group a firm devoted exclusively to helping investors and business decision-makers understand the impact of politics on the risks and opportunities in foreign markets. Amaka is the head of the African practice where she helps clients understand the interaction of politics, policy, and markets across sub-Saharan Africa.
A few weeks ago she tracked me down in Abuja for a conversation on her new podcast in partnership with the Nigeria Economic Summit Group. The podcast series aptly titled IF NOT NOW WHEN brings to life Amaka's passion, intellect and strong connection to her home country.
We discussed restructuring under the topic IS NIGERIA STRUCTURE FIT FOR PURPOSE? She probed my controversial view that restructuring is a scam and a red herring designed to divert attention from the current pillaging of our national resources and poor delivery of public goods.
To listen to the conversation visit
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Scz8eoMzmLOlR8PKkdOhX?si=nL6hvBpNRX-mau-UyWieTQ
Here is a teaser. It was a very engaging conversation.
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Nigeria is making nothing out of her existential crisis
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The mistake of 2022
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Really prophetic! Thank you Uma for this video.
"Chidoka's Prophetic words @theplatformng 2021 about the violence in the East and message to the unknown gunmen
"You can start it but you cannot end it" #unlocknaija
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My message to Nigerian young people: it is time to overrun Nigeria with the spirit of Naija.
Time to #unlocknaija is now
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Doing it with my Coal City ogene group at Obosi. These guys are fit. I still can't get over how far they run, playing and singing
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I wish you all a Happy New Year. I share this message of HOPE on this fateful day, 1/1/2022.
We need to let go of the cynicism of the past and embrace the hope of the future.
2022 is a significant year for us as a nation. It will come and pass like other years, but our choice in 2022 will live with us for a long time for good or bad.
I am hopeful that the spirit of compromise that is the hallmark of Nigeria will triumph in the end.
As in the past, there will be no winner or loser; there will only be Naija, that space where the Nigerian spirit finds full expression.
#unlocknaija
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On Independence day 2021, the question rings across the nation, is this the country our Independence leaders hoped for on October 1 1960? Is this the country that our colonial masters handed over on October 1 1960?
The answer from across the country lies with the blood of Nigerians spilt every day in the mindless orgy of violence and the number of our children at home, away from school, seeking refuge from kidnap.
At no time in our history has the need to renew the idea of Nigeria been more urgent, more critical and the alternative more horrendous than anything we had ever witnessed.
I call on the Post-Civil war generation to rise to the occasion. Let's renew the idea of Nigeria without the blood of Nigerians.
We can Unlock the Gridlock. It won't be easy. It won't be simple. It is doable.
Let's #UnlockNaija
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At chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University hospital ( Amaku)
Hospital visitation
God bless Osita Chidoka
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At our lady's of lourdes hospital ihiala
For hospital visitation
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Finally 5km done and dusted
