Böcker av Dele Babalola

This is a story celebrating one of the greatest sons of Africa, indeed of the whole of humanity. Dele Momodu has raised himself from the hardship of poverty, struggled to acquire a good education and proved himself as an erudite journalist, business man and a great entrepreneur . He created Ovation International from scratch while living in exile in Britain in 1996. He has succeeded in producing a high quality African celebrity magazine that has gained worldwide acclaim. He has been celebrated worldwide. He has met with the Queen of England, ex- Presidents Clinton and George Bush of the United States, African Presidents and monarchs . He has also created Ovation TV and an online newspaper called The Boss. He writes a regular newspaper column in This Day newspaper in Nigeria under the title, Pendulum. He engages the government and citizens of Nigeria with his regular socio-political sanitizing messages. His mentors included the late Chief MKO Abiola and the Globacoms business guru, Chief Michael Adenuga. He has accomplished so much at sixty and he is celebrated.

This book uses the political economy approach to examine the relative failure of federalism in Nigeria. This deficiency is rooted in the country's unbalanced political economy, which promotes over-dependency on oil and consequently an over-centralised federal system.