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Return of artifacts: Fear of Nigeria becoming a dumping ground

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed recently said that Nigeria had signed an agreement with Germany for the repatriation of over 1,130 looted Benin Bronze artifacts back to the country. Earlier, three museums in the United States had repatriated 31 Benin Bronze artifacts. There are strong indications that Mexico and France too ...

The new CJN, Olukayode Ariwoola and marching tasks ahead

Dangers of budget deficit amidst revenue downturn

Making National Honours award more deserving

World Mental Health Day: Awareness vs Medical facilities

De-recognition: Another case of score-settling in Rivers State

2023 elections: Peace accord and matters arising

Last week Thursday, precisely September 29, 2022 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, the 18 presidential candidates contesting to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari during next year election as well as their party chairmen signed a peace pact mandating them to stick to the rule of engagements. The former Head of State and Chairman ...

Porous inland and coastal boarders: Matters arising

Of recent the Nigerian Navy confirmed the arrest of MV HEROIC IDUN, a supertanker, by Equatorial Guinea forces over alleged crude oil theft in Nigeria worth millions of naira, and despite the presence of Nigerian Customs Service ( NCS), Marine Police and other security agencies at the coastal borders, smugglers have continued to have their ...

Menace of flooding in Nigeria

Flooding is the excesses of water on the surface of the ground when it rains. Normally, such lands are dry lands, until there is rainfall, particularly, when there is only a small portion of land to absorb the water. Perennial flooding is one of the most prevalent natural disasters in Nigeria. The increasing annual flooding ...

Oil windfall benefits eluding Nigeria

In the early part of President Mohammadu Buhari’s led administration, the complaint has always been that the oil price was low, accounting for relatively low economic development. Both apologists and critics of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government could not do much in refuting it. Even when eventually there was rise in the price globally, ...

True independence of a sovereign nation and citizens

Independence could be described as a state of not being reliant on others. The fellow is not under the control or rigid influence of another. It could mean having sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood. An individual could be said to be independent as much as a nation, depending on his/its status. Again, a nation ...

Finding lasting solution to national grid collapse

National grid collapse has become one too many in the last nine months. The latest was the eight-time grid collapse on Monday. The occurrence usually leaves affected areas in partial and total blackout, here businesses whose activities heavily rely on power supply from the national grid, run into irreplaceable revenue loses. The collapse of the ...

Unending pressure on Naira against Dollar

The persistent depreciation and instability of the naira against the Dollar has continued to cause a skyrocketed inflation in Nigerian economy. This is reflected on the surge of goods and services depending on input from abroad. For instance, incessant fall in the value of Naira from N260 to N600 in the black market has raised ...

World Tourism Day: Making Nigeria attractive for tourists

Tourism is a business of 365 days of the year. But, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has chosen September 27 for World Tourism Day to be celebrated. This day is for global observance, fostering awareness of tourism’s social, cultural, political and economic value and the contribution that the sector can make towards reaching ...

Merger of OPC, Amotekun in South West

The creation of Amotekun as a regional force to checkmate rising cases of criminal activities following incessant kidnap cases and armed robbery in the six states of South West was received with joy by leaders in the public and private sectors. Before now, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) was recognised as a ground force being engaged ...

Growing Nigeria’s economy beyond rhetoric

The Obasanjo led administration fought relentlessly for the course of debt cancellation. The then creditors saw the sincerity and the economic plans on ground, and they offered to do something about it. Debt relief was granted and we eventually saw our foreign reserves “swelling.” The United Nations General Assembly 2022 started last Tuesday as President ...

Time for ASUU to shift ground

The industrial action of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that took effect from February 14 started like a joke. Nobody envisaged that our university communities had embarked on a journey that would not end even after seven months. It has been so protracted. Parents of these young undergraduates are frustrated already. The students too ...

Time is ripe for State Police

Nigerians that are futuristic have been agitating for the creation of state police for decades. Ever before criminality became out blown, they saw it coming. They wanted to prevent its emergence. For this, they felt state police was the solution to rising kidnap cases, rape,banditry, protection of criminals because of ethnic and religious sentiment among ...

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 ...

Making drug trafficking unpalatable essential for Nigeria’s economy

Recording its one-off biggest seizure, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday September 19, 2022, disclosed how it bust into a compartment warehousing narcotics worth over N194billion in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. At least, four drug barons including a Jamaican and the warehouse manager were arrested in Lagos through intelligence operation ...

Lifting 100m out of poverty: FG must move beyond mere conceptualisation to actualisation

Unfavourable economy in Nigeria has left the Country with seething unemployment records alongside deep seated poverty rate. In March 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) had placed unemployment rate in Nigeria at 3.33 percent. The figure translate to mean no less than some 23.2 million people, the highest in at least 13 years and ...

Speckled with marks of internet fraud: Nigeria’s image must be saved!

Internet fraud has discoloured Nigeria’s status with ugly appearances. The deformities may not be detached from Nigerians who form the nation. While not all citizens can be tagged dubious to this delinquency, the pronounced profile of the delinquency among many Nigerians, particularly the young population, have brought a negative attachment to Nigerian citizens in the ...

Torrential rainfall: Looking beyond crash interventions in flood management

Warnings on the dangers of flooding have definitely not been out of place recently, to give ample chance for governments in Nigeria to prepare to forestall mishaps. It is however, a sorry reflection the narrative that despite the projections of torrential rainfall with red flags hinting of the necessity to prepare against flooding, the response ...

Nigeria’s ecosystem suffers strains of illegal mining: Govt must be deliberate for clampdown

The mining sector in Nigeria, rather than forming a formidable force for economic strength which it has the potential to drive, has become an endangered specie with the scourge of illegal ventures which have entangled the sector. It is apparent that the sector remains one of Nigeria’s worse affected sector, clustered by leakages of illegal ...

Nigeria’s debt sustainability question: Addressing systemic leakages against sliding into trap zone

That Nigeria may be running into debt trap has been one concern which has continued to attract outcries. Although, the government has maintained Nigeria’s borrowings is within the limit of Debt-to-GDP (Gross Domestic Product) ratio, it is apparent that there are justifiable grounds which antagonists of the addictive borrowing disposition of the present government have ...

Nigerian economy: Growing non-oil sector non-negotiable for sustainability

Performances of critical sectors of Nigeria’s economy reflect much is needed to be done as oil still overshadows accruals as the mainstay of the economy. Overdependence on oil has not been healthy for the economy, a fact that recent realities have come to establish. The shortfalls from the inconsistencies of the oil market and the ...

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

Infrastructure gaps have been on negative records, largely forming a pulling string against the Nigerian economy. It is on record that the Nigerian government needs about US$100 billion annually to address the nation’s infrastructure deficits. It remains indisputable that infrastructure remains a pushing impetus to drive the economy for growth. However, it is glaring and ...

Power sector strike: Attending to workforce demands for sectoral productivity

That Nigeria is in labour crisis cannot be justifiably disputed. The resonating vibes of recurrent industrial actions are one among other reflections, which particularly for the public sector have been on tolls of lamentable records. The direct and indirect expressions of grief by the public sector workforce have been a deformity which the government may ...

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

That the fate of Nigeria’s economy is still bleak with huge infrastructure deficit remains a lamentation. The question of the poor infrastructure profile may not be justifiably said to be largely a case of paucity of fund, but rather, largely one of corruption inclinations. The abandonment of projects, diversion of funds meant for them, misappropriation ...

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