Dr. David Kieghe

Global Development Activist and Consultant | Author, "National Ambition Reconstructing Nigeria" | Best ideas are from everyday people who really care

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@bodepedro just listening to your insightful comments on a program on Arise on sports. Love the points you made about sports economy and the demand side. Can you expand your comments on the supply sides in relation to local sports commodities value chains and local jobs?

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@DeeOneAyekooto Especially when young people from those rural communities compete on who has the best rural road design and when they provide the labour and materials for the construction. It delivers many folds: road, income, inclusion and pride to grow the economies of rural communities.

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@DrJoeAbah @CAF_Online Because of tv rights. There is a growing global audience/market for African championships. That is why CAF is able to pay more to participating teams which should be good for football development, but […]

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@aonanuga1956 What he read about SK is true, but not the entire story. If a country's economic strategy is neoliberal (and it does not have to be), then that country has to be on the right side of global geopolitics and geostrategy. SK is. Nigeria isn't. Implications on culture & behaviour.

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@toluogunlesi I am passionate about these matters and open to a private and provocative discussion with you.

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@toluogunlesi Sir, this is serious and existential to resource rich countries in the developing south whose resources are being globalised end.to-end. You can write as long? I know you love Nigeria and you are close to political power and can influence political discourse and decision-making.

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@toluogunlesi @Mohammed_Olawal What really does global commodity mean? Who determines what is a global commodity? Who benefits and hurts from the qualification of what is and what is not a global commodity? What are the fundamental philosophical, ideological, and geostrategic economic and human issues?

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@docneto When wealth is not the result of industry it distorts both fiscal and monetary policy spaces, stifles industry, grows unemployment numbers, devalues local currency, increases imported inflation and creates widespread misery. Exactly what is happening in Nigeria. Origin is known!

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@docneto When wealth is not the result of industry it distorts both fiscal and monetary policy spaces, stifles industry, grows unemployment numbers, devalues local currency, increases imported inflation and creates widespread misery. Exactly what is happening in Nigeria. Origin is known!

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@docneto Speaks to the increasing power distance in Nigeria that is alien to democracy. Extended family system being exploited to justify the lack of economic opportunities for most Nigerians while a few especially people in politics have wealth that is not the result of industry

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@DrJoeAbah You always sabi book. Nau environment, circumstances, preferences, and distractions that time. Opportunity, experience, and different circumstances revealed your brilliance.

My take: the Nigerian circumstance and the human contradictions, the story of most Nigerians!

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@DrJoeAbah Mmm! We said so last time. We said so the other time. We are very elastic as a group

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@TundeIrukera I agree generally. Behaviour is everything. How to influence behaviour for good is the governance and leadership challenge. Would rather say "consequence is a key modifier", not "the". Behaviour modifiers - regarding corruption - are many, complex, circumstantial, and contextual.

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@ShehuSani This is not a mere dispute between individuals. This is about constitutional democracy. When we take away from the judiciary constitutional matters to the executive, no matter how good the intentions, we imperil democracy and the people's right to decide. And the alternative?

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@docneto Just as the frames, pillars, columns, and beams provide structural support to a large building to attain the size, shape, and height of its designers, so do the institutions of a country. Institutions play the roles that the designers, builders, and operators of Nigeria want.

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@ruffydfire If democracy is the means by which the people exercise sovereignty, then where are the people in this? What influences political behaviour in Nigeria? Ideas? Money? Love for people and country? These are the larger political and governance questions the media should ask more.

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@LawDepth Nigeria’s political structure and laws make democracy not work. The structure and laws create discretions and opportunities for plausible deniability that are exploited by state actors.

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@MobilePunch It is an indicator of state failure that requires better thinking and response to have education-related manufacturing, technology, and other industries to fund free compulsory early education

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@MobilePunch No Nigerian child should be school or some vocational training. Not only is the a rights issue but it is a national security issue. It should be an important part of our national security strategy. National security from a holistic standpoint of human and economic development

[Dr. David Kieghe @dkieghe]

@ruffydfire in making our laws and policies we seem not to be asking the fundamental questions such as: 1. What do we want a law or policy to do for Nigerians? 2. What don’t we want a law or policy to do for Nigerians?