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    Kaduna Troubles: Leaving passive posture to the force of firm responses

    Troubles in Kaduna has recently moved to the fore of national discourse. Although the State has not been sane from troubles, recent heightening of records with toughening dynamics have made narratives of insecurity in the State a subject of sour distaste. Over time, crises in Southern Kaduna have been known to be a long term ...

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    Policing deficits: Time to consider decentralised system for effectiveness

    Policing Nigeria has become a subject of wild consideration, since population explosion began to face the Country in sight. However, the posture of the government authority handling the policing of the Country as of decades back remain a subject calling for deep concern. Maintaining a policing structure that was fairly tolerable decades back for the ...

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    Discomfort in IDPs’ camps: A threat the Government must check!

    Since Nigeria became encumbered with violence and aggression, the clustering of Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camps have become a phenomenon of concern, among other plethora devices sprouting as a result of unrest and violent dealings in the Country. The congestion of these camps, particularly in close proximity to areas where the profile of terror operations ...

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    Unmasking patrons driving extension of drug-trafficking networks

    The paradox of the extension of the networks of drug trafficking, despite heavy clampdown by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), among other accompanying security agencies, has been a rabble rouser evoking thoughts. One would have, in all, expect the drowning of trafficking of hard drugs with the spate of arrests and seizures recorded ...

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    Rainy season: Building resistant framework against flooding

    Natural disasters are an unfortunate part of human habitat, particularly as responses to certain changes in the ecosystem take effect. While disasters may not be stopped at some instance, it is troublesome when they are induced by people living within a particular environment. In fact, some happenings categorised as natural disasters were largely human-made alterations ...

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    Social Intervention: Redefining the operating framework of programme clusters

    Social intervention programmes are particularly most essential for the third world Countries within which Nigeria can be categorised in development profile. While social and welfare schemes are not alien to the advanced world, it’s necessity in the third world Countries are much more alarming, given the depth of deficits in human capital development profile. This ...

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    Interim Govt call: Extreme, alien, not a solution to Nigeria’s challenges

    2023 elections remain a topical subject that has now assumed a discourse of divergent wings. While several connotations from perceived dynamics in the political landscape have begun to surface to colour the ecosystem with nostalgia, the vagaries of factors posing challenges to the actual conduct of elections are largely feared before the Country. The fear ...

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    State-of-the-Nation: Even distribution of wealth critical to rebound Nigeria in cohesion

    National cohesion is one necessity before Nigeria demanding utmost attention. State-of-the-nation discourse paramountly have been coloured with plethora of cacophonic dynamics tending largely towards disturbances of divergent sorts. The voice of dissents and discordance brewing from various conflict of interests have left the Country recently with narratives of deformities, putting the polity on heat. Voices ...

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    2023 guber: Responding to signals of insecurity threats

    Fears of Nigerians over the fate of the 2023 General Elections amidst insecurity scourge has apparently begun to surface with pointers of threats. Resounding notations of the 2023 General Elections projected to suffer disturbing glitches by insecurity menace have been taking course, as many fear the prevailing situations if left unchecked, would bastardise the processes. ...

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    Power sector cyclical deficiencies demand emergency

    It is now disheartening that epilepsy of power has grown to a height of national disorder at a length that is distasteful. Running into months, black-outs have become a sour herb placed before Nigerians. While the hitherto existing conditions have been distasteful, the recurrent collapse of the national grid recently has seen total blackouts frowning ...

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    2023 Presidency: Merit, capacity will do Nigerians more good

    Choice of a suitable candidate for the 2023 presidency has put before Nigerians a deep teaser. This is particularly pronounced, now that the prevailing conditions of sour distasteful dissatisfaction demands nothing but making the right choice of candidate to be elected into power to pilot the Country for another political season. The place for election ...

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    Diversification: Developing framework for value chains in Nigeria’s agriculture sector

    Looking into developing the various value chains in the agriculture sector in Nigeria has become pertinent. The significance of same cannot be overemphasised if the reality of developing agriculture as an alternative and/or better still, formidable complement to oil would be attainable. The prevailing status of the sector speaks volume of several value chains which ...

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    Securing North-West: Isolating Kaduna may bear extensive reflections

    Another attack in Kaduna State on Sunday, left a community leader named, Isiaku Madaki, killed in his residence at Kakura in Chikun Local Government Area. The malady came a day after he was installed on Saturday, 9th April, 2022. Report revealed the gunmen stormed the village in the early hours of Sunday while the euphoria ...

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    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 ...

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    2022 N7.35trn Budget Deficit: Justification by outcomes best for increasing borrowings

    Nigeria’s debts have not ceased to put many to concern as the fear of the future impacts of rising debt profile amid harsh uncertainties of the Country’s economy, pose oblique sight before Nigerians. Worries have been heightened, particularly as tangible positivity apparently remains scarce to behold without concrete outcomes from the recurrent borrowings in recent ...

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    Worries of killings: Rejigging national military architecture now non-negotiable

    Rejigging Nigeria’s military architecture has been a recent call with reverberating resonance. This has taken vociferous dimension, particularly since recent spates of attacks and killings have put to question the viability of the prevailing military strength against the scourge of terrorism, banditry and their appendages. The Country in the last two weeks is known to ...

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    Brain-Drain: Nigeria’s teeming population challenged by shortage of experts

    Perhaps, ignorance of the macro impacts of the defects of brain-drain on national stature may be one of the reasons Nigerian authorities have not yet risen from their slumber in decades since the phenomenon began to take course. At another level, it may be not much a case of unawareness, but gross insensitivity to the ...

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    Insecurity fears: Threat to 2023 general elections that must be addressed

    Nigeria’s woes on insecurity heighten by the day. Recurring attacks across the Country have left worries on the face of many. The recent double calculated attacks on rail stations in Kaduna in less than 24-hours brought up sourer narratives to colour the scourge of insecurity in the Country. The resort of citizens to rail as ...

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    Internet fraud: Fighting the illicit venture with hard & soft responses

    Internet fraud constitutes one of the deficient phenomena that has come to tag Nigeria with deforming character. At the forefront of international community, the perception this has incited for the Country is nothing appealing from all frame of thoughts. It is one debilitating profile which poses negative impacts on the Country. Nigerian nationales now have ...

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    Insecurity in Kaduna: Bad omen to national peace, demanding an emergency

    Multiple attacks in Kaduna in less than 24 hours between Monday night, March 28 and Tuesday, March 29, 2022, saw the narratives of insecurity in the Country assuming a dreadful dimension. A terrorists’ bomb attack Monday night on an Abuja-Kaduna routed train had left a number of persons dead. It was gathered the Rigasa Train ...

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    Nigeria’s education deficits: Redefining the scope & quality assurance

    Education in Nigeria has no doubt been posing its effects of reflections according to the profile of same in the Country. It is of note that though the impacts of education is largely known to have borne its positive effects on the Country, yet, the huge deficits is by all means bearing its negativities on ...

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    Addressing Kaduna killings as an emergency

    Barely a week (20th Sunday, March, 2022) after an attack that left no less than 34 persons dead, another gruesome attack by mischievous gunmen on Sunday, 28th March, 2022, left a community in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State in trouble, with the killing of 15 locals. Report gathered revealed that the bandits invaded ...

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    Power failure: Developing potentials of alternative sources of generation

    Nationwide blackout has not left Nigeria alone. Recently, epilepsy of power supply has been on the recurrent scale for about three months, as inconsistencies along the operating lines of the sector’s working architecture have left sour narratives for the Country. March 15, 2022, a total system collapse which came at the heels of recurrent failures ...

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    Southern Kaduna: Time to leave the shore of condolence to proactive response mechanisms

    Security turbulence in Nigeria has remained a subject of sour distaste in Nigeria. The deepening conditions recently have seen extensive rots of unleashing terrors on the various parts of the Country. As insecurity appears to have become localised in various versions with peculiar characters across regions and zones, their effects have in all ways left ...

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    Agriculture Bills: Avoiding bottlenecks in Legislative-Executive processes

    As calls in Nigeria have given premium importance to agriculture as a means to solve woes of Nigeria’s economy through diversification, the demands for institutionalising structures to give concretised expression to the necessity has become important. Recently, bills presented for deliberation within the architecture of the National Assembly has continued to surface. While some have ...

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    The need for state of emergency on power supply, petroleum products

    That the present state of epilepsy of power supply has begun to threaten businesses, and at large the economy, is not questionable. Frantic lamentations over the strains the failure of power supply is posing to businesses, particularly those on small-scale which operations rest heavily on power. Worse has been complaints of rising bills despite the ...

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    Food safety: Why standard check has become necessary on agriculture produces

    The issue of food safety has become topical recently. Although the subject may appear to be attracting not much strong campaign as is required, yet its impacts have seen Nigeria’s agricultural produce suffering rejection from gaining in-roads into the developed world over time. As the need for structures of safety standards has been identified and ...