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While COVID-19 plunged the world into a world health crisis, another epidemic growing its infectious spread is the monkeypox. Although the disease is not presently just known, its spread, recently, has drawn global concern. From a gradual stage which was taken not too serious, it has now grown in its spread to a global health ...
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Illegitimate ventures have grown with rising socio-economic hardship, recently, to heighten narratives of criminalities in Nigeria. The rate of networks of organised criminal ventures in the Country have reached a height where the demarcating walls of legitimate from illegitimate businesses are growing slimmer. This is as more coordinated formations of illicit ventures have found a ...
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Among other fabrics of the Nigerian entity affected by the scourge of insecurity, the economy has been hardly hit. The blows of the storm have seen sectors, as agriculture which owes central place to livelihood, subsumed to the waves of disarray. It is saddening that a fledgling sector, which by the necessity of growth demands ...
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Insecurity threats in Nigeria have grown into full blown albatross. The menace has expanded and strengthen its tentacles to the extent that terrorists are having their feast day with effrontery to operate flagrantly without caution. The narratives recently have seen terror operations taking tolls of wanton destruction as perpetrators are deeply assuming emboldened disposition to ...
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Planned protest by Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) slated for Tuesday 26th, and Wednesday 27th, July, 2022 to frown against the unresolved differences between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on the face of discourse as solidarity course for elaborate mobilisation keep taking rounds of coverage. It was reported ...
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Internet Fraud has become one delinquency eating deep into the fabrics of the Nigerian society. The level of its pervasiveness has grown to the extent that many now celebrate the flamboyant life style of perpetrators of the crime. The permeating intrusion of the menace has seen, many, particularly the young ones, increasingly settling for the ...
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As the build-up towards the 2023 general elections gather momentum, one of the subjects of concern has been that relating to voters' apathy which recently have clouded elections in the Country. Factors responsible have largely, among others, been linked to failure of the government to meet the yearnings of the masses. Hence, apathy to political ...
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When the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) declared a warning strike on the 14th February, 2022, Nigerian NewsDirect had warned of the possibilities of the strike taking a lingering toll of similar dimension of the 2020 narratives of a protracted strike which lasted for nine months. Over five months after the warning strike, the ...
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Economic realities in Nigeria have posed their blows of unfriendly woes in recent times. The impacts at the local level have been so strong with turbulence, making conditions of living unbearable for many. The plight of the larger masses, recently, as the woes of the economy wax grossly tough, has been growing with troubles of ...
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Nigeria’s electoral process is receiving certain ray of light in developmental courses. Although that the Country has not reached a formidable strength of desideratum is in view, yet, that new realities are taking shape cannot be totally discountenanced. Amendments of the electoral law in series to guide processes and actions, introduction of advanced technologies to ...
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In the build-up towards the 2023 General Elections, the subject of deficiencies that shroud elections in the Country have been on point of discourse recently. Of such subjects, the issue of vote-buying has remained a strong topic of reflections in the discourse of the elections. However, while the 2023 General Elections is in view in ...
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Preparation towards the Governorship election in Osun State, set for Saturday, the 16th of July 2022, have attracted shares of concerns. Although, the issues of concerns surrounding the election are largely not strange to the narratives common with the Nigerian political setting as pertaining election, yet the demands for the desideratum will necessitate that reflections ...
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The case of agriculture for repositioning of Nigeria’s economy has been given justification by potentials which have been weighed to bear push of growth if harnessed efficiently and effectively. The productivity of the sector, however, has been such which has remained at an edge largely insignificant to the elaborate demands of the economy. Coordinating policies ...
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Fuel Scarcity is growing to become a recurrent expression of deformity in Nigeria - a phenomenon bearing socio-economic impacts with discomforting narratives. Scarcity of petroleum products in Nigeria is not alien. However, its recurrence recently has become worrisome. Citizens might have come to know it as an occasion that comes in its undefined season, but ...
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Housing deficit in Nigeria has remained a core deficiency among the clusters of challenges entangling the profile of socio-economic realities in the Country. Recently, the issues surrounding the housing sector have been coloured with deformities that reveal long compounding problems which have clustered into blowing deficiencies. Issues of urban development and migration have made deficits ...
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Insecurity scourge took a tougher dimension on Tuesday night, the 5th of July, 2022, following another prison attack, this time on the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS); a development that left no fewer than 879 inmates fleeing from custody. Although attacks on prison facilities recently on a number of ...
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Insecurity has become an albatross of thorns inflicting Nigerians with pains and heavy discomfort. How citizens are being subjected to unending chain of cruelty by mischievous groups of persons, have gone beyond the limit of tolerance. It is apparent a group of persons with diabolical ideologies are hell-bent on fighting a course to make life ...
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That the 2023 election is threatened by insecurity mayhem is not a gainsaying. Fears over the challenges insecurity may pose to the general elections have left stakeholders with outcries emphasizing the need to arrest critical security situation in the Country, to forestall perceived threats capable of colouring the elections with sordid narratives. The perceptions over ...
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Pervasiveness of drug abuse in Nigeria has grown to a height where the scorching impacts may leave the Country with unsavoury narratives if not promptly checked appropriately. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) recently, mentioned that no less than 29.4 million Nigerians aged between 15 and 64 years abuse psychoactive substances and other dangerous drugs. ...
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That Nigeria is peddling the lines of food insufficiency is inarguable. The profile of such insufficiency has brought before sight a looming food crises. The profile of food inflation recently have only put unsavoury thirst in the mouth of many. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), had in its “Food Prices Watch Report” for May, ...
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Citizens’ disposition to the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria remain a key subject in the discourse of the dimension which the election would take. Such disposition remains key owing to the circumstantial factors which certain syndrome of citizens’ behaviour have the capacity to shape as it touches the political environment, vis-a-vis the value placed on ...
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Survival instinct over the scourge of insecurity has begun to dictate to Nigerians how to protect themselves, their immediate families and environment. The failure of the Government to put to rest the string of scorching heat of terror activities across the Country has sent a sensation of fear and panic with citizens, apparently, quick to ...
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Trafficking of drugs and its abuse have continued to assume disturbing turn as the deep reflections of the profile of the phenomena are growing complementarily with expansive wings. The profile of clampdown on drug traffickers over time has shown abounding reflections in arrests and seizures. Arrest of suspects and seizures have continued to assume alarming ...
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Discourse around 2023 general elections has been elaborate in scope. The election appear to be attracting more attention as it is coming at a time when more awakening on the responsiveness of citizens’ participation to wisely choose their representatives who would pilot the affairs of the Country for another political season is becoming strong. It ...
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Security mayhem in Nigeria has brought into bear the cacophonic myriads of tingling sounds. Recently, the fear of the stretch of terror -insurgency from the north to the south has been taking course. The flashes of threat signals have shown enough reflections to signify the building blocks of terror structures in the South. The response ...
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Concern over business environment in Nigeria has been a frontline subject among the critical issues in the discourse of the Nigerian economy. Particularly, the subject of the wobble state of the economy has brought into bear the calls to salvage the economy from the web of weakened fabrics. Recently, when the record of downturn of ...
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Collapse of the national grid with its associated nationwide blackout has been one common narrative factored in the deficient architecture of Nigeria’s power sector. Recently, nationwide blackouts have been taking reflections back to back. The poor attention to address the age-long problem calls for concern. Amidst discourse over the insufficiency, the Federal Government, had last ...
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Reservations over Nigeria’s debt profile have been with gripping concerns. The worries have been centred on the prospect of the Country amidst rising debt and the burden of servicing same. The outcry of warnings over the huge debt have been carted largely along the justification for the borrowings. Warnings of the risk of the Country ...
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That the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ (ASUU) strike is assuming the projected lingering dimension is no longer a gainsaying. The struggle of the Union has become a common factor, and a point of reference to quickly send a note of reflection of deficiencies in governance. For instance, when the news of the N80billion corruption ...
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Another killing in Benue on Sunday, the 12th of June, 2022, had generated reactions resounding the course for self-help by citizens to defend themselves, since it appears the Government may be failing in its duty to protect lives and properties. The knocks have, particularly, been on the Federal Government which has maintained the preserve of ...