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Ogun College Provost charges students on excellence

Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta The Provost of De Potter College, Oru Ijebu, Dr Oluwaseyi Gabriel Adeware has urged Nigerian students to shun all forms of distraction and go for excellence in their studies all in a bid to turn out to be the best for themselves and be agents of positive change and development in the ...

COVID-19: The need for proper vaccine education of masses

Trafficking in Persons: Heavy-duty clampdown now needed

Infrastructure deficits: Time to end large fund approval, substandard projects

2023 general elections: Demand for preparation is much in view

2023 general elections: Putting insecurity induced apathy in check

Budget padding: When the Nation calls on watchdog institutions

At a time Nigeria is deeply hit with the scourge of financial insolvency with the depth of limitations to fund capital projects in response to the pressing demands of the economy, the only rational necessity in public finance would be no less than those of prudence, frugality and creativity with all rods of fiscal discipline. ...

Agriculture: Building symmetric farm estates for sectoral growth

As the need to diversify Nigeria’s economy has become indisputable for the Country, call on the Government to devise means and coordinate efforts with strategic patterns to propel growth in the agriculture sector as a ready alternative for oil has become reverberating. The calls have been justified from all angles out of the comparative strength ...

2023 politicking: Government, Nigerians must remain focused!

That Nigeria is housing a population largely stricken with poverty has become a dirge with lamentation of a paradox. The paradox has been borne by the irreconcilable strokes of living in “poverty amidst plenty.” The frustration before many Nigerians, who in their numbers have been left handicapped under poor living conditions, has continued to pose ...

CPI: Nigeria’s 154th ranking, addressing the informing weaknesses

No doubt, corruption has become an household name for Nigeria. The concept feature too loudly in the discourse of the socio-economic cum political fabrics of the Country that beyond the shore, corruption is closely remembered when Nigeria is measured in strength. The menace has been a eyesore which has formed a rendition of lamentation in ...

Debt burden: Rebuilding accountability structures for sustainable

Nigeria’s profile of debt remains at the front burner of the State-of-the-Nation discourse. It has recently become the argument of concerned stakeholders how the Country has been enmeshed in rising debt profile without concrete results to show for same. The concern has moved towards the edge of demands for a course for accountability on how ...

Local penetration of substance abuse: Societal institutions must react

As high profile trafficking of hard drugs is known to have become an estate fortified with broad networks, attention to how drugs are being abused locally may not have attracted much concern as expected. However, it is threatening that the rate of the abuse of substances locally has become so deep seated beyond the surface. ...

Cybercrime & the Nigerian reputation: Looking down for the spurring factors

The profiling of Nigeria in the global eye of cyber-criminality has gone beyond terms of tolerable limit. The extensive growth of the wide network of the sharp practice as an estate of fraudulent activities may be growing to the rubicon of discomfiture which, among other socio-economic delinquencies, would have continued to purchase a wrong notion ...

Subsidy removal: Threat before investment amidst controversies

Policy somersault within the diction of Nigeria’s administrative concept has been a phenomenon of note. At critical times, the socio-economic and political fabrics of the Country are known to have suffered, at some points, from the collision of contrasting policies. Some of these have been laid on the ground of inconsistencies in the policies of ...

Security hardware: Challenges before the nation demand robust investment

The discourse over insecurity in Nigeria has brought in arrays of perspectives when issues come to the subject of tackling the mayhem headlong. The reality has become dawn that with the clusters of insecurity cloggings sprouting widening networks of disturbances, only an elaborate architecture of response can be thought of, to clampdown on the wings ...

Rising inflation: Nigeria’s weakened economy demands coordinated measures for vitality

Rising inflation rate has become a character of the Nigerian economy. It has remained a parameter reflecting the weakening profile of the economy over time recently. Although report have shown decline in the rate in the past few months of 2021, the effect remains insignificant to the reality of what the economy pose to the ...

Drug trafficking/abuse: Augmenting operating apparatus to tackle sprouting wings

Clampdown on drug traffickers has become a phenomenon of reoccurring factor recently. The records of seizure and arrests of drug traffickers have been on the high side. In 2021, cummulative reports have seen the monetary value of seized drugs running into hundreds of billions. In September, 2021, the NDLEA had disclosed that it had seized ...

Alleged N4.1bn NASS fund diversion: It behooves the lawmaking organ to clear the air

Another fiscal year has begun with the running of a new budget, but one phenomenon that still poses threats before the Country is the culture of financial recklessness, mismanagement, misappropriation, and diversion of funds within the public sphere of administration. These funds which largely would be meant to finance projects have always fallen short of ...

Too early for strike: Viable government responses as antidote to sectoral disturbances

...Education, a source of concern Resolution of a congress held by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) branch on Tuesday, has revealed that Lecturers of the academic institution, have following their resolution, resolved plans to commence an indefinite strike. The ground informing the strike as would be expected has unpaid Earned ...

Shrinking revenue: Time to tilt sectoral productivity towards increasing demands

That Nigeria recently has been caughtin the web of revenue shortfalls is much of a strong discourse in view. The vagaries of the inconsistencies in global oil prices have pushed the Country to the end where the shortfalls in revenue portend strains to the increasing demands of the economy. The inability to satisfy the demands ...

Resumption: The call to foreclose bandits’ attacks on schools

With resumption of schools ringing bell for a new year, following the yuletide break, one subject matter before hand is that of insecurity which recently started assuming the phase of bandits’ attacks against schools with the criminal disposition of kidnapping pupils for ransom. The phenomenon has left nothing but fear in the heart of pupils ...

Too early for Industrial Action: NASS, uphold integrity

Hearing of threats of strike actions may seem to be too early to begin another annual calendar. However, in as much as such would appear absurd, it has become a phenomenon that threats of industrial action in the Country may know no time bound as expression of displeasures from aggrieved parties have become a feature ...

Chain of hard drugs & the restive posture to national courses

Reports of hard drugs and its trafficking have begun to assume fixture of records again. For this calendar year, it is not much expected that the rate of substance abuse and drug trafficking might record any downward slope. This is much close to sniff since there are no new approaches disclosed yet on tackling the ...

Rolling course of unremitted revenue: Dragging defaulting MDAs to clear the air

Narratives of administrative deficiencies have not ceased from the calculus of the patterns of governance character in Nigeria. The clusters of interlocking deficiencies have loudly given the character of public administration in the Country the nomenclature of corruption over time. The misgivings have borne the classification of public administration in the Country within the corridor ...

South-East: Constructing responses of engagement to douse storms of agitations

Nigeria’s South-East recently has become a seat of heat with forces of agitations taking toll of belligerent conflagration. The voice of agitations with socio-political undertones have continued to brew storms of disturbances which themselves have borne symbiotic forces, premising the rising of insecurity threats in the region. The scourge of such activities as kidnapping, arsons, ...

Mining: Sectoral sanitation for performance amidst economic diversification quest

Economic matters have remained of top concern to Nigerians recently. The subject has assumed a central place in the State-of-the-Nation discourse. The strains in the profile of the economy have borne symbiotic forces colliding to bring the economy to its heel. With the strains have come the call for diversification of the economy from its ...

Banditry Reinforcement: Call for self defense, arm possession and the tied hands of State Authorities

The scourge of insecurity has recently put before Nigerians the option of calls for self defense. In the clamour has been the demand for possession of firearms by individuals to protect themselves against terror elements. That the clamour has begun to attract subscription on the part of State government authorities, is pushing the call to ...

Corruption: Noised promises and the eyes of structural responses

That Nigeria still roves within the wind of corruption and misgovernance is an understatement when perusal is given to the assessment of the quality of governance viz-a-viz the feasible parameters of experience in saner climes. It has become an albatross that the scourge of corruption has strangled the Country to the point of apparent financial ...

Infrastructure deficits: Shifting from profiteering to priorities of significance in project execution

Deficits in infrastructures have remained a troubling case of concern in the discourse of strains challenging Nigeria’s economy. In November, President Muhammadu Buhari had in Glasgow at a COP 26 high-level side event on improving global infrastructure hosted by President Joe Biden of the United States, the EU Commission President, Von Der Leyen, and the ...

Portable Water: Lack of access and the scourge of water-borne diseases

Social amenities remain a critical subject among the discourse of the societal configurations in Nigeria. While in the assessment of the profile of living standards the place of social amenities remains critical, it is however against the beauty of rationality that the fittings of social amenities in the Country largely remain within the frame of ...

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