I have been reading about Paul Romer’s concept of charter cities. These are private cities built by private individuals and corporations and it looks interesting. These cities apart from having their own infrastructure theoretically don’t have to depend on national, state and local laws and can have their own judiciary/legal systems in other words they will be autonomous zones.

Some say this concept will allow real development and leapfrog the bureaucratic bottlenecks that stifle many third world countries in their quest for development. This is the concept that was used to build Dubai and now Abu Dhabi is following it, both of them in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)....

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it could be a gr8 idea but their strong hiccups when trying to implement such in Nigeria at this stage

That's about the best way forward for Nigeria. I have been reading about them too and it's a concept that suites the Nigerian landscape especially when you consider the fact that as it stands today, most of the basic amenities in Our cities are provided by privates and there are no applied laws governing our environments.

Basically you're talking of devolution of powers from the center and empowering the component units......fiscal federalism in another garb!

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Basically you're talking of devolution of powers from the center and empowering the component units......fiscal federalism in another garb!

Wow! I never thought of it that way. Nice angle though.