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N128bn 2020 revenue record: Shaping Solid Minerals Industry for more economic contributions

The call for diversification of Nigeria’s economy is no mean course in recent discourse of the profile of the Country’s economy. The wobbling state of the economy with vagaries of currency value instabilities, forex scarcity, recession, high inflation, and the associated deformities, have brought to fore the submission of diversifying the base of the economy ...

Power sector deficits & socio-economic deformities

Human trafficking: Sanctity of institutional responses and the place of citizens’ intelligence

Insecurity: Government’s inertia threatening civic life

International Women’s Day: Giving incluson advocacy institutional considerations

ASUU strike: Coordinating stakeholders’ efforts to resolve contending issues

2023 elections: Nigerian Youths as players against ‘do-or-die’ political agents

That many would resort to the use of aggression in the quest to hit their aspirations would not be a case that can be ruled out, as Nigeria faces another season of political gimmicking of the 2023 general elections. As known in the Nigerian political climate, largely ridden with foul play, the use of aggression ...

Obesity: The place of Continental-wide response system to avert in Africa’s population crises

Health challenges in Africa have continued to attract global concern. Nigeria in the demographic representation of the continent remain of central concern as the most populous African Country, accommodating over 220million of the continent’s 1.3billion population. Hence, any meaningful discussion of the health demography of the continent would bear strong relevance to Nigeria in the ...

Fear of Insecurity: Major threat against 2023 General Elections

Choosing credible leaders who will pilot the affairs of governance in Nigeria for another political season has become a course at the nose of citizens, most recently. The demands appear to be, more than ever, sacrosanct, particularly as the need to select leaders who will change the narratives of the prevailing conditions of hardship many ...

Nuclear Power for Electricity: Time to get the parameters right for change in narratives

Electricity in Nigeria has remained on the wanting list of poor infrastructural profile. The deficits in the power sector have been too deep seated as efforts over time to make epileptic power supply in the Country have continued to rove around the circle of dormancy. Against the noise of ongoing works, problems of the power ...

2023 General Elections: The demands for intelligent participation

Questions of keeping eyes on the choice of candidates for the 2023 elections have been on the top burner. Living up to expectations of governance have brought into bear the need to have square pegs in square holes. The deficiencies in governance over the years have brought to the forefront, administrative incongruity which are counterproductive ...

Summons to answer financial irregularities: MDAs’ shunning approcah and the need for legislative assertiveness

As the drumbeats of financial recklessness continue to take ugly face of revelations with misappropriation of funds, the records have largely remained fishy and cloudy across affected Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The need to probe into identified gaps revealing depths of lacunas in billions has become a public course, to the degree of the ...

Legalising Weed in a drug-threatened population: Presumed advantages amidst red signals

Two contrasting issues among matters of notations of dilemma in Nigeria in recent times, are the ongoing demands for legalisation of cultivation of weed plants and the need for diversification of the Country’s economy. While the cultivation of weed (substance) plants as cannabis has proven to have some huge commercial potentials, the threats it poses ...

N621bn road project diversion: Obligatory roles of affected, concerned parties sacrosanct for probe

Deficits in infrastructures have been a bane against the health of the Nigerian economy. One subject which has been tingling as a strong factor necessary for a stalemate, or better still, the backward stature in the profile of infrastructures, despite the increasing budgetary allocations for projects over the years has been corruption. In its patterns, ...

Astronomic airfare increase: Federal Roads not offering suitable alternatives

A recent meeting of domestic airline operators in Lagos, saw a resolution bringing on board the increase of airfares by 100percent with effect from next week, March 01, 2022. The increment as noted would be across board. The resolution adopted by all the domestic operators would see the least economy ticket now selling for N50,000, ...

Illegal cash flow: Addressing sharp practices threatening Nigeria’s socio-economic fabric

Sharp practices in Nigeria are not unknown, by profile, to be rolling on the surface. By all indications, sharp practices are known to be deep rooted in the Nigerian clime forming stronghold of negative forces in the Country. The broadening wings of the estates bearing hold on these frames of deformities, are known to be ...

Governors’ Life Pension: Demands of cutting down expenditures amidst sectoral constraints

Cutting down the cost of governance recently came near sight as one submission to respond to the depth of strains clogging up from challenges of financial constraints in the Federation. Borrowings, recently, have been noted to be posing burdens of debt brewing constraints against sustainable development. Outcry over borrowing to finance recurrents recently became tingling, ...

Lagging Water Resources Bill: Moving from inertia to address pressing amenity demands

Nigeria appears to have suffered depletion in the profile of social amenities over time. It appears that existing schemes which used to be enjoyed by citizens have, over the years, been distilled away by the force of wear and tear. It is apparent that the insensitive culture of poor posture to maintain sustainability, has borne ...

NDDC fraud: Nigerians suffering brunt of institutional failures

Fraud within the bloc of Nigeria’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have been well pronounced. The ugly concept has seen developmental courses suffering deeply, as funds meant for their execution fall victim to kleptomaniacs who are hell bent on sapping the commonwealth for their personal selfish interests. The plight many have suffered from the gaps ...

ASUU strike: Higher education threatened by inconsistencies, Govt must wake up

The overstretched threats of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to protest breaches by the Federal Government to honour its 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. The outcome of the marathon meeting by members ...

Brain drain: Threat to Nigeria’s teeming population

Nigeria’s health sector remains one among the sectors where the controversies of labour crises have been very pronounced. Just as other sectors with similar circumstances, demands left unaddressed over the years have seen certain phenomena growing out of the course of the debilitating effects with unsavoury outcomes for the Country. While several other sectors may ...

Infrastructure deficits: Rejigging project execution patterns for efficiency

That Nigeria is largely challenged with infrastructure deficits accompanied with decaying vicissitudes of existing ones is incontestible. The bank of infrastructures needed to propel appreciable growth in the economy appears to be much irreconcilable to the existing profile of the infrastructure in the Country. The deficits appear to be too deep seated that commercial and ...

Bullion vans on target: Redefining architecture of metropolitan security against high profile robbery

Robbery in Nigeria has become an albatross. A concept of long time mayhem in the Country, the phenomenon has lasted overtime expanding to assume waving and disturbing dimensions. From petty range of pilfering to high profile coordinated operations involving armed robbery, the subject has become a brand of mayhem in the scourging profile of insecurity ...

Returns for DisCos: Unclogging billing system by metering innovations

Controversies over electricity tariff have been a bane in the power sector since the privatisation of the distribution companies DisCos took effect in 2013. Issues revolving around arguments of the determination of billings, as charges for electricity consumed, have been heavily contested with resistance from the end users who have consistently raised alarm over what ...

Looming ASUU strike: Government must comport itself with integrity

Drumbeats of strike within the Nigerian education system has begun to boom again. The reverberation as the norm of the leading rancour zooms from the Public Universities’ System. The leading stakeholders of the system, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is once again pushed to the wall for another reaction over breach of agreements. ...

2023: Politicking, citizens’ obligations, demands of decorum and responsibility

The Nigerian political space has begun to bubble with new dynamics in what would be known as pre-election year politicking. The coming of the general elections in 2023 would no doubt be clouded with arrays of activities in dynamic turns of realities. The permutations towards the election would be largely clouded with controversies which may ...

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

Narratives of COVID-19 in Nigeria have been coloured with dynamics. From the onset of the outbreak in the Country in February, 2020, till date, controversies have not ceased from the narratives of the clouds gathering around the pandemic in Nigeria. The definitions of patterns which have coloured the orientation of the pandemic has been clustered ...

Trafficking in Persons: Heavy-duty clampdown now needed

The vibrating quest for greener pastures has brought more Nigerians to the point of desperation to pay any cost possible to effect their desires. No good appeal from the prevailing situations in the Country. The plight of many before the worsening living conditions borne by the premise of the wobbling economy may not be helping ...

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

Deficits in infrastructures have remained among the top frontal issues of discourse on the Nigerian economy. The subject has remained central given the emphasis on the necessity of infrastructures to propel growth across sectors in the economy. While it is indisputable that such infrastructures as roads, railways, and waterways for transportation, have remained germane for ...

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