RESTRUCTURING ANXIETY: CONTINENTAL, CORPORATE AND EURO-AMERICAN RESPONSES TO RESTRUCTURING AGENDA IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This paper investigated restructuring anxiety in the African Union, Hemisphere North and their Trans-National Corporations in Nigeria. The paper discovered that ethnic groups and even scholarship on the restructuring debate in Nigeria are silent on the possible actions and inactions of the A.U, Britain, the U.S., France, and their TNCs (especially the Royal/Dutch Shell) operating in Nigeria. In the attempt to fill this gap, this paper recalls that to the extent that the then O.A.U (now A.U), world capitals in London, Washington D.C and Paris, and their TNCs were interested parties in course of the Nigerian Civil War, restructuring anxiety in these named actors would most likely work to undermine the genuine aspirations of certain ethnic groups of a restructured Nigeria. The paper recommends that the A.U, the global North and their TNCs must demonstrate unbiased interests in the Nigerian project by supporting to work out an equitable federal structure that would promote mutual co-existence among the diverse ethnic nationalities in Nigeria; a restructured Nigeria that would further strengthen her internal co-existence and her bilateral relations with the international community.