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It is our pleasure to invite you to our Showcase ETC series on Open for Business scheduled for October 29 th 2014 in Lagos. This edition of the four hour program periscopes the economy, travel and culture of the State of Israel. Senior officials from the Embassy of Israel would take questions on doing business with Israel, its key sectors, locating business partners, understanding its business culture, vacation destinations and visa procedures. It would be interactive with a Q&A session. Other select countries during this Quarter are Brazil and Benin Republic. Stay tuned. You may email us on inquiry@ibgnigeria.com for more info. on participation and sponsorship opportunities.  

Celebration of the Jubilee year of political independence is in the air for many African countries. Benin has celebrated hers and Nigeria’s is in the horizon as it celebrates her independence from Britain this October. Let us remind ourselves that these countries were created by the colonial powers without due consideration of the implications of the demarcation exercise. In the case of Benin and Nigeria, as in many others too, culturally related people were separated by artificial boundaries. The motives behind the Balkanization was captured in R. Muir’s publication on Political Geography, 1983, that ‘in establishing political territories, each colonial power attempted to maximize its sphere of control that would serve as barriers to the continuous expansion of rival colonial territories and secondly, to control river basins which provided highways for trade, to established coastal footholds and for further inland penetration…’ The Jubilee Year of political independence provides a bas...