Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Monday, August 17, 2009

Outside influences

When the US Secretary of State comes calling and criticizes the host, what effect will that criticism have politically?

Two Sides of Nigeria Addressed by Clinton
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent a message of tough love to Nigeria on Wednesday, praising the country’s strong military and showing public appreciation for its huge oil industry, but also harshly criticizing the government for being corrupt...



Clinton Misinformed on EFCC - Commission
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, reacting to the comment of the United States secretary of state, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, that the anti-graft agency has fallen off, says she was misinformed.

The EFCC in a statement in Abuja, said the impression created by Mrs Clinton's statement that the Commission had not done much in the last one year was not "only misleading but a contradiction of the records of activities within the same period...

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