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2023 General Elections: Youth participation, the demands of enlightened culture

Political awakening among the youths in Nigeria is apparently becoming a course gathering momentum. The drive towards same, recently began to attract traffic of interest, as a campaign for youths to, at least begin to take considerable quota in the sum of political offices, if not take over the ruling architecture of the Country from ...

Debt burden: An economic threat that should not be ignored

23 years of infantile Nigerian Democracy: Participatory roles of citizens & statesmen

Terror Attacks: Lamentations of fragile response to hunt covered gunmen

Electricity: Bidding for an elaborate metering coverage to distill controversies

Wobbling economy: Citizens and the choice candidate for 2023

Owo attack: Going beyond the doling of condolences

...South west on red alert An attack on the St. Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, in Owo Council Area of Ondo State, by suspected bandits who opened fire on worshipers on Sunday afternoon has left narratives of saddened sensations. While the end target of the villain gunmen has not been ascertained, some see them as ...

Allied Industries: Reflections of Solewant’s 22 years of cutting-edge technologies application for oil, gas projects

The Oil and Gas sector remains Nigeria’s honey-pot. investments in the sector have, over time, grown to sustain it as Nigeria’s economic mainstay. The base of the economy has largely, for about five decades, rested its oars on the sector, giving its yieldings to serve private and public interests. As the sector remains germane to ...

Agriculture: Impact assessment sacrosanct for N1.01trn ABP’s investment in over six years

Narratives of the profile of Nigeria’s economy has brought in the necessity to give credence to significance of assessment to evaluate programmes across sectors to determine their value and significance, or otherwise. Across sectors, it is well known that several programmes introduced either for intervention to ally strains to keep investors alive in business (palliative), ...

2023 Elections: Taming the claws of money-politics

The drumbeats over the 2023 General elections is one of Nigeria’s most interesting topics at the moment. Several attributes are known to be associated with election and its conduct in the Country. Issues of violence, money-politics, ballot-snatching, among other uncivil posture reflective of a do-or-die syndrome have not been far from the process of election ...

Kidnapping: Building synergy to tackle spread of aggression in the South-East

Insecurity recently has left, in Nigeria, waving atmosphere of disturbances. Panic from fear of various security threats have continued to form sensations of absence of safety. While the North have been known in about a decade to be engrossed with the scourge of terrorism and insurgency, it is now apparent that the infectious flight of ...

Agriculture loans: Giving credence to impact assessment for quality control

The need for diversification has brought into bearing, investment in agriculture as a close complement and/or alternative to oil & gas which has remained the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy for over five decades. The focus rightly finds shape of relevance given the strength of potentials, human and geographical advantage, which the Country accommodates. With strong ...

Has school feeding programme improved attendance, quality of education?

The assessment of policies to determine their relevance in terms of outcomes and impacts, have remained a strategic part of the policy process. At the tail end of the policy process is the assessment of the implementation, to weigh its status vis-a-vis its stated and expected objectives. In fact, not until the impact assessment in ...

2023 General elections: Checking against violence amidst primaries

Electoral violence remains one key soar attribute of elections in Nigeria. That the 2023 elections would be expunged from same have not shown any reflections. The likelihood of such deformities not taking place would only be borne by enlightened democratic culture which would inform citizens conducting and moderating themselves with decorum, without being compelled by ...

Tariff Review & Power Failure: Increase at this time is irreconcilable

MAY 18th, 2022, there were indications reflecting that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had commenced another review of electricity tariff. The Commission in a notice of minor review of the Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO), contained in a statement titled, “Notice of Compliance in Respect of the Biannual Review of the Revenue Requirements of ...

Electoral Act 2022: Swift decisive action paramount on assent to amendment bill

The Electoral Act 2022 has over time in its building-up remained a subject of controversies. From its stage of initial passage to the President for assent into law, controversies have not ceased from its profile. The initial withholding of assent by President Muhammadu Buhari at the onset with claims of some of its provisions, particularly ...

Framing accountability structures in the Oil & Gas sector for optimal accruals

It would now appear that every deficit in expectations from any sector in Nigeria would quickly be rounded up to the act of corruption. This is because the profile of corruption itself has become an household name, particularly for the public sector, such that trust in government has almost been lost. The grip of corruption ...

Alleged N80bn AGF fraud: Proving the veracity of claims beyond reasonable doubt

Corruption in Nigeria has grown over time to leave a wobble imprint which has accorded the Country reproach in the international realm. More so, the debilitating impacts of same have seen internal realities growing with stormy winds, as the effects of the gaps left by corruption syndrome have raised strings of clustering deficiencies. The prevailing ...

Inflation: Addressing the factor of food crisis in CPI records

Inflationary pressure in the coming months have been projected by analysts to take grip on the Nigerian economy, as records for the third consecutive month keep soaring, hitting 16.82 per cent in April, 2022. In its Consumer Price Index (CPI) released on Monday, May 16, 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed that the ...

Localised responses for security threats: Time to push the campaign very strong

Discourse over the demands for local security architecture in response to the worsening profile of insecurity threats in the Federation have become reverberating as the scourge of insecurity turbulently inflicts its blows on the Country increasingly. The call for state police within this perspective has been one which the responsive ears from the appropriate quarters ...

Responsive mechanisms: Eliminate surging insecurity threats in the South West

Although insecurity albatross have been very stormy in northern Nigeria, it is not to say other parts of the Country have been excluded from the reflections of security challenges. In fact, the extension of the waves of insecurity in the Country cannot be said not to have been finding reflections in some other regions of ...

Comatose refineries: Laying down structures to eliminate constraints of refined products importation

The Nigerian oil and gas sector is riddled with frailties. From the upstream, the mainstream to the downstream, deficiencies have seen the sector underperforming in its yieldings, though it has been maintained as the honey pot of the Country. Phenomena of several glitches have, in their dimensions, formed subject matters of keen discourse. Challenges of ...

Anti-corruption: Redefining statutory framework ruling prosecution of offences

Statutory deficits have been identified as one critical subject in the deficiencies mitigating against corruption fight in Nigeria. The call for modifications and enactment of new laws to redefine the statutory frameworks of corruption offence trials have, over time, been on course since the fight against corruption have largely seem frustrated. The arguments have expressed ...

Confronting terrors of insecurity as threat to Nigeria’s existence

Terror activities in Nigeria have kept on leaving, behind the scene, the panic of insecurity. From all works of life, disruptions to meaningful activities have continued to record strains that would not be isolated from effects of drawbacks to development. That significant growth in Nigeria within the scale of macroscopic relevance may not have been ...

ASUU Strike: Election should not hold education to ransom

Going headlong with the Federal Government, again, has been another resort of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to protest what they have argued to be insincerity and lack of integrity on the part of the government to honour promises and agreement made in respect of decade long demands. While the University professionals have ...

Fuel scarcity: Eliminating unwarranted pressure

Scarcity of petroleum products in Nigeria is not alien. Citizens might have come to know it as an occasion that comes in its undefined season. Signals of another looming scarcity of petroleum products in the Country, may have begun again to record its ticking warbling resonance. Scarcity of these products, particularly, the widely consumed premium ...

Power epilepsy: Fixing the threatening strings of national economic crises

Power supply has remained of top concern among the plethora of discordant notations taking reflections of deformities in the profile of socio-economic fabrics of Nigeria. The worsened records of supply most recently have become worrisome at a time where the promise to get the power sector fixed only grew to see electricity in the Country ...

Debt Profile: Avoiding strains of trap by revenue base expansion

While borrowing has been justified to be a reasonable resort to address certain strains in the economy, it remains a fact that when they are not sustainable, only further strains are to be expected. This is particularly of stiffer impacts when the realities reflect misapplication and/or mismanagement of borrowed funds. Nigeria, recently, has been held ...

Economic Downturn: The essentials of intervention programmes to cushion depressing strains

Addressing economic strains by government interventions became a model of macroeconomic management since the depression of 1930s, which saw a paradigm shift from the law of invisible hand to the reflections of why interventions of government to regulate the system is important. Since Nigeria’s economy began to suffer declining tones with woeful deficits, the need ...

Lingering ASUU strike: Leaving circumstantial argument to address issues of concern

ASUU strike is once again taking a toll with lingering dynamics. Recall that the overstretched threats of ASUU to protest breaches by the Federal Government to honour its long demands, eventually culminated into an actual industrial action on Monday, 14th, February, 2022, following a resolution of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Union. ...

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