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As the scourge of harsh economic conditions continue to leave sour narratives behind, the demands to reposition the deficient straws to get the same bouncing back to life has become of necessity. By the worsening strings, unemployment, particularly among the teeming youth, has been a breeding ground for wings of social delinquencies with the scourge ...
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Threats on the societal fabrics of the Nigerian society by drug related escapades have been resounding recently. Most particularly, as crime rate worsens, the impacts of hard-drug related activities have been noted to be a weighty factor in the cause and effect relation analysis. The proliferation of substance abuse has been a bane the society ...
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That coordinated efforts to vitalise the working fabrics of the agriculture sector for efficiency towards productivity, largely demanded for the diversification of Nigeria’s economy, remain sacrosanct is rationally justifiable. Since agriculture has been held in reckon as high ranking among the topmost blend for which the course of diversification can be given the breath of ...
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Agitations in Nigeria’s honey-pot region, the Niger-Delta, have been known to be belligerent over time, since oil exploration began to effect its impacts on the zone. The demands for amnesty in compensation for the degradation of the region’s habitat owing to oil exploration, have been a course of resounding subject. Several perspectives in the clustering ...
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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 ...
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Issues dragging over the prevailing deficits in power supply have become interlocking in the analysis of the subject matter. In about a month, power consumers across the Country have been having it tough from incessant outages. This became troubling with the tough circumstances of the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, in the ...
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Illicit ventures is no new phenomenon to Nigeria. However, disturbing are the notations of the reverberation of the various wings of several estates bearing reflections to the escapades of illegal ventures in the Country. Of the broad wings of the prohibited estates bearing strings of records to illegitimate ventures, trafficking has remained one broad brand ...
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That insecurity has become an albatross in Nigeria is no gainsaying. Saddening report revealed how no less than 65 persons mostly members of the local vigilante were ambushed and killed by bandits in border communities in Niger and Kebbi states between Sunday and Tuesday. Report gathered reveal that the killings took place in Tungan Magajiya, ...
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Gender equality has become a subject gathering rising attention in Nigeria. The advocacy for the course has recently begun to attract campaigns of advances from wings of women leaders, canvassing for equal rights with men folks in the decision making fabrics of the society. As the World commemorates the International Women’s Day on Tuesday, the ...
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The fear that another strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that may linger to further disrupt the University System in Nigeria has set in, is much in view before Nigerian students, who have been left out of class-rooms following the commencement of a one month warning strike, last month, on Monday 14th, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...