Underdevelopment

Economic underdevelopment and insecurity are inherently interlinked issues that are the key to understanding the current conflict, and its resolution.

From this perspective, secularized positions and development are de-secularized as degeneration and underdevelopment.

We are so rich but Africa has remained the poorest continent as Europeans, Americans and Asians harvest our rich minerals, flora and fauna, with their advanced technologies while we are bogged down by crises of underdevelopment and poverty.

He said that years of poor leadership by past administrations had thrown Aba into a state of underdevelopment and stagnation.

In short, all the economic and social evils of underdevelopment would be reproduced despite the victory of the revolution.

Nigeria’s ongoing underdevelopment is not an inevitable consequence of its history or ethnic diversity but rather a result of weak, extractive institutions.

Speaking after the honour at a business investment summit in Kigali, Rwanda Buhari-Ado assured that Nigeria, just like other African countries would surely get over the challenges of underdevelopment it is grappling with presently.

The first film opened to a mixed reviews from critics who argued that there was a lack of plot and underdevelopment of the lead characters.

The leaders also envisaged a nation that would lead the continent out of underdevelopment and be a beacon of hope to the rest of Africa and the world, he added.

They explained that political and economic underdevelopment, conflicts, and wars in the region were related to these divisions.

Yet today, we are faced with a reform that seeks to dismantle this spirit of shared prosperity by concentrating benefits in a few industrialised states while neglecting regions that continue to suffer from decades of exploitation and underdevelopment.

For a region whose major challenge in the last decade has been the battle against Insurgency, underdevelopment, youth unemployment and lack of basic infrastructure had been common place in the zone, much like other regions of the country.

Instead of sustainable development we are in the throes of sustainable underdevelopment.

Those who draw back our progress as a nation should be punished for the disgrace they bring to our country in governance, businesses, professions, universities etc. Tribalism, corruption and outright stealing, has led to underdevelopment of the country.

Those with an immune deficiency have an underdevelopment of the thymus, an organ of the immune system that develops T cells.

Marcien Towa, another founding father of our university, responded in almost the same words, insisting on the mastery of science and technology in this struggle against underdevelopment and obscurantism.

Upon her passing last month, Prime Minister Gaston Browne stated that Dame Yvonne Maginley represented the best of this country’s ambitions to escape the tragedies of colonialism, underdevelopment and oppressive conditions.

By its very nature, corruption can undermine the efforts of governments to bring ‘prosperity’ to their countries; promoting the breakdown of law and order, leading to violent conflicts, poverty, and underdevelopment.

He said the PDP had ruled the country for 16years before 2015 and all they brought to Nigerians was misery and underdevelopment.

Moyo’s UMD joins several other Matabeleland-based pressure groups and political parties such as Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) and Ibhetshu LikaZulu, whose origins are on the perceived continued underdevelopment and marginalisation of Matabeleland.