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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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To have flawless elections in 2023 would rightly demand nothing but earnest preparations in response towards the array of events to shape the course of the democratic process. While deal-days of voting would rightly take course, the process surrounding actual casting of votes is only one among the plethora of activities that sums into an ...
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Voters’ apathy has remained a phenomenon in Nigeria’s profile of electoral records. Past records of elections have seen the phenomenon featuring significantly in the profiling of elections over time. Most recently, the degree of the phenomenon has taken deep turn, seeing more voters largely shunning polling stations increasingly. While many factors are known to be ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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...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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...