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Cost of governance in Nigeria has become topical as a resounding submission since the storm of economic downturn began to record wobbling dimensions. The essential factor of huge investment in capital project has unequivocally been on the top front of calls. The ratio of capital to recurrent expenditures in the Country’s budget has been a ...
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The sectoral impacts of insecurity in Nigeria have seen broad entanglements of structural deficiencies posing threats to the working parameters of several sectors in the Country. The impacts are such which evidently pose multi-sectoral threats ravaging the formations of socio-economic configurations in the Country. Of many sectors affected, the education sector has recently come under ...
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Ekiti State recently has been on the top burner of recurring incidences of kidnap-for-ransom. The sprawling profile of the incidence record is graduating into an ugly phenomenon drawing closer to an albatross. The fundamental necessity to bring the evolving menace under check remains non contestable in the light of observations drawn from the evolving patterns ...
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The escapades of bandits in Nigeria have come with several stings of discomfiting ills. The mischievous elements who form the bandit groups are known to be perpetrators of chunks of despicable acts repugnant to the course of natural justice and humanity. The scourge of kidnapping, gruesome killings, rustling, razing communities, and displacement of settlements, among ...
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September 02, 2020 recorded the event of a decision of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) rolling out the endorsement of November 01, as another annual event to commemorate the National Youth Day, as approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. The development marked setting aside a day in national record to celebrate, reflect on and find solutions ...
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Keeping Nigeria’s debt profile within the purview of economic sustainability is one question that has continued to put observers on their toes. The perusal of the prevailing realities with critical juxtaposition of contending facts have left conundrums with calls for caution. This has particularly taken the phase of critical observations with recent records showing about ...
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Last Week, a request of N50 million was the ransom demanded by kidnap-for-ransom gunmen who abducted eight people on Tuesday at Itapaji Ekiti, in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The kidnappers reportedly demanded the N50 million sum from the family of the victims on Wednesday, 27th of October. Report of the abduction revealed ...
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COVID-19 vaccination in Nigeria has come with a ton of controversies. The rounds of scepticism surrounding the administration of the vaccines has seen the subject moving beyond the issue of availability of vaccines to a subject of popular resistance of the masses who remain sceptical about been administered with such vaccines. Such roving rumours as ...
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Investing in research for innovations and inventions to boost development in Nigeria remains a course which is resoundingly significant to put Nigeria in the limelight of meaningful definitions of a modern nation of a civilised entity of the 21st Century. The categorisation of Nigeria within the corridor of the third world nations, has its expression ...
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Labour matters in Nigeria remain a subject of deep discourse. Apparent deficiencies in the instruments that guide the provisions and administration of labour matters in the Country have posed situations coloured with controversies. The defects have left behind a deficient system saturated and ridden with gaps seemingly constituting the grounds of lacunas which have become ...
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The report of the abduction of three worshippers in Obada Oko, Ewekoro local government area of Ogun State from a Cherubim and Seraphim Church, along the Railway station in the early hours of last Sunday, 24th October, flags the red signal giving expression to threats of the kidnap-for-ransom menace that now lies before the State ...
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The rounds of the interception of hard drugs by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have come to assume a dimension reflecting an entrenched network of the misadventure of drug trafficking in the Country. Reports of such interceptions and seizures have come to assume the successive turn of building up a profile which reflects ...
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Since the #ENDSARS protests which saw the successful invasion of a prison in Benin, Edo State, with inmates set free, the attacks on Correctional Centres have become a persistent phenomenon. Last Friday recorded another event strengthening the foothold of the phenomenon, with the attack on the Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo town, Oyo State by ...
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The report of a farmer, Cordelia Utazi, who on Monday was allegedly hacked to death on her farm at Ugwujoro Nimbo, Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, resonates the heightening of the phenomenon of the farmers/herders’ crisis. The long seated trouble has remained a storm which has come to leave sad narratives of debilitating ...
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The system of pension in Nigerian like many other subjects is coloured with administrative deficiencies. The discourse over the subject is such that carries emotional reservations, when critical concerns are put to bear on the plight of aged workers deprived of their entitlements. It is known that the clogging of bottlenecks borne by administrative deficiencies ...
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Foreclosing the possibilities of youths returning to the streets to commemorate the #ENDSARS protest has become a national discourse, particularly as mobilisation from some quarters over the last few days began to gather momentum. The tales of the protest which turned sour at the heels of the alleged Lekki Toll-plaza shootings purchased for the protest ...
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Issues surrounding Nigeria’s debt profile have become cogent recently carrying the weighty concerns of national interest. The subject recently assumed the status of weighty considerations with the perusing parameters of hindsight over the mounting profile of debts within the space of the last six years viz-a-viz the prognosis of threats by the instruments of foresight. ...
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The rampant seizure of hard drugs and the arrest of their traffickers have recently shown how deep seated the escapade has assumed. It is now glaring the escapade has grown as an estate of misadventure which has well established a wide network of operations. It is apparent over the years that the approaches applied to ...
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The subject of food security in Nigeria has recently risen to the top burner of national discourse. The dynamics of recent realities have brought into bear, strings which have made the narratives of food profile in the Country falling aback into the edge of scarcity. As scarcity continues to wax gross, the profile of inflation ...
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Attacks on security architectures in Nigeria has recently become a phenomenon. The rootings of the mayhem can be traced to the antecedents of the #ENDSARS protest which last October saw belligerent attacks on Police infrastructures at the wake of the violence turning soar. The protest which was informed by demonstrations to protest police brutality, particularly ...
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One year has come to bear after the historic event of the #ENDSARS movement took a belligerent form with street protests. While the rootings of the movement was known to have its records far back as 2016 on the social media to protest police brutality, events unfolded last October to climax into transcending from social ...
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The state of infrastructure in Nigeria remains one key subject in the discourse of the Country’s profile of economy. The relevance of the subject in the appraisal of the status of the economy pragmatically finds the expression of thought by definitions of the relativity of the state of infrastructures as one propelling factor for the ...
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Discourse over insecurity in the Country has grown beyond the verge of a nascent subject. It has become a national issue which assumes a frontal ranking in the state-of-nation discourse. While several threats have had their rooting over a long time in the Country, it is now saddening that the poor response system of the ...
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As economic narratives continue to wax gross in the Country, several deficient social decadence have been sprouting forth as effects of the wobbling realities. Among many others, street begging is growing to become one trend of deficient social character in the Nigerian societal configuration. The gradual enlargement of the trend has grown to assume a ...
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The outcry over borrowing in Nigeria has continued to generate traffic. The concern became more disturbing when it was revealed recently that over 90 per cent of the Country’s revenue now goes into debt servicing. Following the combined approval of N16.39 trillion for the 2022 Appropriation Bill by the Federal Executive Council (FEC), and the ...
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That agriculture is one grandeur sector upon which the Nigerian economy can be structured for diversification, has gone beyond contest. Plethora of potentials — human and natural resources — have justified the strength of possibilities lying before the Country if the potentials are productively harness. However, the poor productivity profile of the sector owing to ...
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The fact that Nigeria is an epicentre of corruption is a subject which is largely incontrovertible. The deep rot is known to have assumed systemic character as the normative disposition of public officers. The rot has now grown as a phenomenon finding expression across all facets making up the societal configurations of the Country. While ...
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Reports of the suspension of the 63-days-old industrial action by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Monday, have well brought into bear the channel of new narratives. The over two-month-old strike which commenced on the 2nd of August, 2021 had been coloured with heady narratives with the resolute stand of the health professionals ...
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Among plethora of challenges, the scourge of Scourge of banditryhas deeply formed a strong part of the State-of-Nation discourse on Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary commemoration. The escapades of bandits in Nigeria have seen insecurity worsen in the Country with a misadventurous estate coming out of the ugly phenomenon. The menace which begun in a mild ...
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Taking comparative recourse to the state of affairs when Nigeria gained independence in 1960 and now when She is marking 61 years of independence, has become a subject of national reflection. The questions which largely comes to bear would anchor on how fair the assessment of development would be adjudged after the space of over ...