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School exposure to insecurity: Threat to Nigeria’s human capital

Calculated attacks on schools recently took the scores of Nigeria’s insecurity narratives to another level of fright. Although attacks on schools could be trailed back as far as the Chibok girls kidnap of April 14, 2014 by the mischievous Boko-haram jihadists, the event left an imprint which till date has brought sense of panic - ...

Turning Nigeria’s infrastructure investment orientation to broad-based macro economic approach

Power sector strike: Attending to workforce demands for sectoral productivity

Nigeria’s infrastructure crumbling before corruption: Formation of 2023 government must take cognizance

Insecurity threat: Exposure of Southwest must be tackled with harmonious anti-terror operations

FG, State, Local Govts should subject their structures to Forensic Audit for accountability

Violence is too costly for Nigeria: Concerted efforts from all now sacrosanct

The disposition of Nigerian authorities to violence apparently reflect the Government may be oblivion of its cost in the Country. Recently, the narratives of violence in various forms have set to put before the Country reflections of anarchy and impunity of illegal use of force. In its various forms, violence has largely held the Country ...

Debt threat: Nigerian Govt must tread cautiously

While outcries keep abounding over rising debt profile and the burden of servicing same, the trend seem not to be enough to bring an end to quick turn to borrowing in any near future. It is apparent the Government in Nigeria has become addicted to borrowing syndrome, while what happens to the effectiveness of the ...

Sanitising Nigeria’s Foreign Missions from flu of financial recklessness

Narratives of indiscriminate mismanagement of public funds have been one characteristic of governance in the space of Nigeria’s public sector, which over the years has put on a garment of gross inordinateness. The deficiencies have clustered as sediments to form part of the system. Recently, cases of unremitted funds on the part of revenue generating ...

Building vitalising framework around 62.37% non-oil sector H1 Y2022 growth performance

Growing Nigeria’s non-oil sectors has remained a call with justifiable variables as the pragmatic solution to the wobbles of the Nigerian economy, which recently has reflected the weaknesses of fatigue from the over-reliance on oil as its mainstay. The oil predomination of the Nigerian economy and the reliance on same, forming the mainstay of the ...

Flooding projections: Local, State & Federal Govts must observe their statutory duties

The annual records of flood incidents with associated damages and losses in Nigeria have kept on taking toll year-in-year-out. Across the Country, the narratives of flood disasters, apparently may not have spared any part. While flooding is known to be a phenomenon that can be found taking its course in communities in any nation around ...

2023 General Elections: Modifying dispositions towards enlightened political participation

The drumbeats of the 2023 General Elections have begun to play out with dynamics of rhythmic patterns. While political stakeholders cannot be caged from playing politics, it is however pertinent that such endeavour be guarded within the permissible limit of law and order. Nigerian politics have been known to be clustered with the do-or-die syndrome. ...

Recovered loot: Enforcing accountability for judicious use towards further recoveries

Stolen funds laundered abroad have been a subject of roving concern in Nigeria. It is apparent the value of public funds stolen and laundered, as have been shown so far reflects how the Country have been largely debilitated by corruption. On Tuesday, 23rd August, 2022, it was disclosed the Federal Government, again signed a fresh ...

Nigeria’s growing food prices inflation: Risk of National chaos & anarchy

Nigeria is apparently roving round the brink of food crisis. The huge deficits in food production - a reflection of turbulent strains bewildering the agriculture sector, recently, have posed records of negativities in the profile of food prices with scarcity and its attendant high inflation. The Food Prices Watch Report for July 2022 released on ...

Drug trafficking/substance abuse: Prosecuting clampdown by collective responsibilities

The network of drug trafficking have not ceased to expand its tentacles. It has grown to become Nigeria’s most gripping transnational organised crime growing in billions of dollars. On Sunday, 21st, August, 2022, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), again disclosed that it intercepted over 2.3million tablets of illicit pharmaceutical opioids and other psychoactive ...

Academic Unions’ Strike: Agreement must be comprehensive for all sides

Over six months of staying home, mammoth Nigerian tertiary institutions students whose academic calendar were brought to halt by lingering Academic unions' strike, still lie expectant of what situation will tell in the coming week. While grievances and outcries awash the Nigerian public space over the lingering strike, negotiations between aggrieved Tertiary Institutions Unions and ...

Flooding projections: Developing architecture of response against disasters

Problems which have remained largely recurrent by virtue of their status been left unaddressed are common place in Nigeria. These problems would largely be found in all sectors and facets of the Nigerian entity. For the environment, one common phenomenon which has been overlooked overtime, but which has recorded losses of irredeemable damages is flooding. ...

Probe of N18.9bn alleged agriculture related fraud: NASS must be thorough & uncompromising

Ceaselessly in Nigeria, cases of corruption scandal have continued to take toll in the Country. It now appears that one newer scandals would come on board each season to sack and shelve aside the roving rounds of one prevailing scandal to take the toll of recognition. The dimension has made the reports of corruption, most ...

Insecurity & the call for Mercenaries: A sign of distress the Government must rise to address

As it appears the Nigerian Government is lying handicapped with security forces apparently frustrated and fatigued, recent call for employment of mercenaries to fight the die hard hydra-headed insurgency in the Country has become another call gathering cloud of attractions. Killings in tolls have recently become an albatross sending sense of panic across the Country. ...

Corruption: Building accountability into Nigeria’s public sector

Corruption, no doubt, has become an household name for Nigeria. In its various forms, the ill has become a stench the Country has been known for, with malodorous perception which has sent signals of negativities in the international realm. Among comity of nations, the Country now ranks at the top of corruption ratings of various ...

2023 General elections: Time citizens must act as custodians

Nigeria is at the edge of another season of crossroads. The reality of conditions before the Country, however, make the 2023 General Election coming forth in few months, a subject of critical concern. The unpalatable state of living conditions, amidst negativities of various fabrics of the society have made the call for citizens to be, ...

Food crisis: Checking against the art of cruelty against agrarian communities

Agrarian activities are far becoming subject of critical concern in Nigeria, as the endeavour is far becoming endangered species, largely threatened by forces of insecurity. The scourge insecurity have come to render in shambles agricultural production in recent times, as incessant attacks across heat zones in the Country have left farming communities casualties of terror ...

Insecurity: FG should avoid isolating rising scourge with sectional twists

Insecurity in Nigeria has given to the Country discolored representations. Recently, the myriad dimensions which the wings of insecurity have assumed have set in confusion which largely began to put before citizens questions of whether the government itself understands to categorise threats manifesting in different dimensions from different quarters as they are. The clusters of ...

Less than 4,500 megawatts capacity: Nigeria’s economy suffers power deficiencies that must be addressed

The profile of deficiencies in the workings of the power sector in Nigeria has pose insufficiency in the provisions of the sector. The deliverables of the sector have been of large deficits not only to commercial demands but also domestic utilities. Recently, the deficiencies recorded as low as falling below 3,000 megawatts. Power outages with ...

Declining oil production output: Diversifying sectoral structures to explore benefits of gas value chain

Dynamics in global oil prices recently have brought up realities of the need to maximise the benefits with an elaborate point of view in response to the vicissitudes of the market. Recent realities have seen crude oil prices hovering above $100 per barrel. For Nigeria, however, certain realities have shaped the development. May 29, the ...

Campaign against drug trafficking/abuse: Response structures must be taken beyond present scope

Drug trafficking has apparently grown to become Nigeria’s most worrisome illicit venture. The value of exchanges within the chain have grown to a disturbing height. Fight to clampdown on the menace has continuously been clouded with unending arrests and seizures, only for records to reflect nothing but an expanding network, rather than showing deterrence for ...

Oil theft & sabotage: Nigeria’s predicament against fortunes of rising global oil price

Dynamics of global oil prices put critical concerns before Nigeria, particularly with the Country having oil as the mainstay of her economy. Market realities on Wednesday, August 03, 2022, revealed the prices of many crudes, including Nigeria’s Bonny Light, bounced back to over $100 per barrel in the global market as the Organisation of Petroleum ...

Uncollected PVCs: Many Nigerians risk losing voice on 2023 General Elections

2023 General Elections have been much in view at the top of political discourse most recently. The call for enlightened citizens participation has equally taken centre stage, particularly as it has been noised, the need for citizens to do so, to throw out underperforming public office holders, while electing credible candidates who posses the credence ...

Brain-Drain: Nigeria’s teeming population challenged by health sector’s man-power crisis

Dearth of professionals in Nigeria’s critical sectors have been growing at disturbing height. The trend has hit the health sector so hard that the problems associated with huge deficits in man-power have worsened to a profile of deep crises, requiring urgent attention. Poor conditions of service and the lamentable apparent perpetual passive concern of the ...

Trafficking-In-Persons: Developing responsive system against new devices of perpetrators!

Illegitimate ventures in Nigeria have grown to the degree that the expansive wings have begun to assume narratives that are clustering challenges confronting the Country. Of these, have been the growing wings of trafficking in persons. The venture has grown recently to assume disturbing turn. As hunting for traffickers continue to take its phase, human ...

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