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Investment in Agriculture has recently become a course of notation demanding strong attention in the discourse of the Nigeria’s economy profile. The narratives of the profile of Agriculture in Nigeria still attracts more of sympathetic consideration, than a formidable productivity which is the desideratum for the Country’s economy. As the reality of diversification has become ...
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Insecurity in Nigeria is no new phenomenon. However, the new dimension with which the scourge has begun to assume, has brought on the table of concern variant forms of threats giving the definition of insecurity the clogging of clusters of categorisation. The wings of disturbance propping with the rising of categorisation of variant forces of ...
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A peaceful protest staged by ex-servicemen of the Nigerian military on Monday in Kaduna over non-payment of their entitlements by the Federal Government is reminiscent of the defaulting parameters of the administration of pension, gratuity and other retirement entitlements in Nigeria. The ex-servicemen on Monday stormed some strategic streets in Kaduna metropolis with placards conveying ...
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Maltreatment of Nigerians on foreign lands has been a phenomenon of discomfort which citizens of the Country have been suffering from the nationales of other nations across the world. Maltreatment by authorities of foreign nations have seen Nigerians suffering embarrassing harassment under unfriendly conditions. The reported maltreatment of some Nigerians by Togolese security officials at ...
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As the yuletide festivities draw close, it is only very much in view that the streams of activities and events would be inseparable from the configurations of economic realities. The choices and spendings of many would largely be framed within the patterns of purchasing power and market realities. It’s very much resounding that the strains ...
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Electricity tariff rate has become topical recently. Since the privatisation of distribution companies (DisCos) took effect from 2013, the need for returns has become much resounding for private operators who took over the companies from the public domain driven by the Government. Like every private entity would do every thing not to run at a ...
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As Nigeria’s population continues to record geometric increase, the demands for healthcare have, indisputably, been on the high side. Such demands have evidently put pressure on the capacities of the existing public health system which overshadows the health sector in the Country. Since, public health system cannot be jettisoned or its place relinquished from the ...
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That Nigeria is still tottering along the lines of food insufficiency is inarguable. The profile of food inflation recently has only put unsavoury thirst in the mouth of many. In its report on inflation, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) had on Tuesday (15th November 2021), disclosed that the annual food inflation rate rose for ...
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Knocks on the Federal Government last week took force of heavy records, particularly as more northern stakeholders are becoming more hard on the Government in expression of their grievances over perceived failure of the later to assure safety and security of lives and properties, believed to be a primary responsibility of any meaningful government. The ...
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Issues regarding COVID-19 pandemic has assumed new narratives with recent development demanding the need for new directives and response structures. The progressive mutations of the Virus to more transmissible and deadly variants have informed changes in guidelines across the world. The discovery of the Omicron variant in Nigeria, has in the past few days brought ...
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The heightening of security threats in Nigeria has no doubt moved to the sparking state of disturbance. Issues of whether security formations are really at the fore of restoring normalcy has become more of a distanced reality as the spate of variants of security threats have continued to cluster with sore narratives. The clustering of ...
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Profiling Nigeria’s economy recently has brought, into the forefront, discourse of indices which are assessed to give expression to the prevailing status of the underlining factors which have been the basis for what has been observed as strings responsible for a wobbling economy. Such assessments by data and statistics remain much important as they constitute ...
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The preesure of world leaders were seen to have found some respite since the success of the development of a vaccine against the deadly COVID-19 which saw the world been plunged into crisis of lockdown, amid colossal losses of lives across the globe. The swiftness to which the vaccines were developed could easily be related ...
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Effrontery of armed groups launching attacks on security operatives is growing to become a common phenomenon, recently, in the profile of insecurity narratives in Nigeria. From operations of bandits, terror insurgents, to those of local gangs of hoodlums, attacks on security formations and operatives have been taking toll with affronts which reveal loss of fear ...
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The submission of reducing the cost of governance in Nigeria, as a panacea to addressing the string of insolvency frowning at the Country, has come to assume a prime of place amidst plethora of recommendations. The call has become more reverberating as the Country slides towards the corridor of deep limitations to fund capital projects ...
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The narratives of corruption and bad system of administration in Nigeria has remained long seated phenomena devouring the fabrics of good governance. Recently, the saga of budget padding and clandestine recruitments have been making rounds. At the wake of unraveling incongruous items and duplications in the budget of Miniseries Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the phenomenon ...
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Last year October, the Federal Government had disclosed a Presidential Youth Empowerment Scheme to get no less than 774,000 youths engaged - a programme expected to spread across the six geopolitical zones in the Country. The scheme which was noised from different angles is however hanging on air with details of its implementation shrouded in ...
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Food crisis is now growing to assume a troubling national phenomenon in Nigeria. The acute scarcity of food and the attendant inflation in food prices have recently put before the Country, the need for special intervention to address the heightening challenge. The insufficiency of food production to meet population demands continue to wax gross. In ...
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Gas explosion has come recently to contribute another social-economic subject rousing emerging concerns. The catastrophe of losses of lives and properties accompanying such incidents have left unsavoury narratives behind. Last Week, a gas explosion on Tuesday 16th November, at the Ojekunle Street in the Ladipo area of Mushin, Lagos State, had left no less than ...
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Difficulties to exterminate the strings of extremism in Nigeria have continued to keep conundrums in view as the Government continue to struggle with the aggression of fundamentalism, banditry and terrorism. The heightening of variants of insecurity mayhem amid struggles of the Government have brought into bear the submission of the need to change the orientation ...
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It remains incontrovertible that economy suffered as a prey to the strains posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, economies had suffered strains of discomfort which brought in the demands for special interventions as responses to cushion the impacts of the disruptions. The dynamics which trailed the development had introduced new ways and actions to reconfigure ...
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What is known to have a root for several forms of aggression in the Niger Delta region at the wake of militancy responses in protest of what was described as agitations against neglect of their land amid degradation of the habitats, has begun to assume newer dimension. The protest of the perceived neglect had forced ...
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Reactions from stakeholders have recently been taking toll of concerns as Schools recently are increasingly becoming soft spots from mischievous elements of terror and mayhem across the Country. Recent situations have seen bandits taking the part of the precedence laid by the 2014 kidnap of the Chibok schools girls with determined attempt directed at pupils ...
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Diversification of the Nigerian economy has come to the fore front among recommended solutions to the wobbling profile of the Nigerian Economy. The arguments have been justified on the ground that the over reliance on oil for, a time too long, have only brought the economy to the heels of vagaries of inconsistencies posed by ...
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Food inflation in Nigeria is gradually pitching the Country to the corridor of crisis as the insufficiency of food production to meet population demands continue to wax gross. In its latest report on inflation, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday (15th November 2021), disclosed that the annual food inflation rate rose for the ...
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In its lastest update report on seizure of hard drugs and arrest of traffickers, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) disclosed that it intercepted fresh consignments of cocaine and heroin weighing 16.85 kilograms worth more than N4.9 billion in street value. In a statement issued on Sunday (November 14) by its Director on Media ...
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Last Thursday, 10th November, 2021, the Senate approved another set of loan requests by President Muhammadu Buhari to the tune of $16.23 billion and &1.02billion loans. Following the development, it has been projected that Nigeria’s public debt would upon effect rise further to no less than N44.5 trillion. According to report, with the fresh foreign ...
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Addressing the issue of sustainable and reliable power supply in Nigeria has been a subject of broad concern. Like many other matters of developmental debate, the issues surrounding the Country’s power sector are deep seated. The yearnings for a reliable power supply routed along coordinated framework of sustainability and reliability, has been a case ridden ...
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Issues revolving around the politico-economic character of the Nigerian Federation have been on the floor of contest over time. The reverberation of expression of arguments have recently taken the force of reoccurrence with the worsening profile of economic situation, to which political economists have rested the reality of recommended solution to the need for fiscal ...
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Demographic matters in Nigeria fall within the corridor of deep seated concerns marked by clogs of controversies. Among the plethora of concerns on the subject, the notation on the health profile of the Nigerian population stands out with many reservations. The consideration of detective frameworks within which the health sector in the Country is premised ...