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Deep seated corruption has for long been a making character of governance in Nigeria. The systemic configuration of public offices in the Country is known to have been so porous that stealing from public pulse has been made so easy that funds meant for development have over the years largely found their destination into private ...
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Under utilisation of Nigeria’s agricultural potentials has left lamentations with resonating echoes of dirge. The mere consideration of such conditions as food scarcity and the associated crises are expression of nothing but paradox. The rhetoric remains why the Country with the enormity of human and depth of natural resources would be grappling with appalling conditions ...
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Accumulation of debt in Nigeria has continued to be a subject with unending discourse. The mere reflex of the thoughts of the risks ahead of the Country with increasing resort to borrowings to cater for deficits in annual and supplementary budgets over the years, have been a source of worry to those who are foremostly ...
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Realities in Nigeria have become so clustered in the web of myriads of disturbances, that the prevailing conditions call for depths of rational appeals of giving priorities to strategic moves in every decision by constituted authorities with well calculated measures. It is however apparent that issues of misplacement of priorities have not ceased to show ...
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The scale of the upsurge in the spread of contraction of COVID-19 has begun to assume dimensions of red signals which experts have come to pinpoint as flags of a third wave. The Federal Government has, on the basis of the records of recent surge, declared Nigeria is now in a third wave of the ...
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The productivity of youths in Nigeria is a subject that draws depth of reservations as matters of discourse, many of which attract deep concern. Particularly, subjects relating to human capacity development is one of the profile of discourse central to youth matters in the Country. It is apparent that as complexities in the Nigerian society ...
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Discourse over the health sector in Nigeria has continually remained on the radar of inconsistencies with the clustering clogs of instabilities which have saturated the public health system. It is resonating how the incessant records of industrial actions have been a definite character of the public health system in the Country. The infinite counts of ...
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Oil and gas have remained the honey pot of the Nigerian economy for no less than four decades. The concentration on the resources as the major seat of the Nigerian economy, has however been coloured with some deficiencies in terms of the profile of the working system, of which ordinarily, the sector should have outgrown. ...
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Key matters of national interest are core subjects which do demand critical attention. Such subjects as security, are matters requiring the corroboration of hands to ensure a peaceful and safe atmosphere for appreciable cohabitation. The circumstances that insecurity pose is such that the ravaging effects would transcend the individualistic tendencies that impacted them. Hence, the ...
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Banditry most recently has become an albatross in Nigeria. The menace has become a thorn particularly in the North West. While the North-East is known to be the zone ravaged by the Boko-haram/ISWAP terror, banditry has taken a grip on the North-West as the region’s brand of insecurity. The extending tentacles of the menace have ...
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The report of another nationwide indefinite strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Monday, August 2nd, 2021, is once again the resurfacing of a recurring event which has become apparently infused in the system of the Country’s health sector. Sporadic strike by health workers in the Country has become deep seated to ...
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The proliferation of crime in Nigeria has assumed localised dimension with reflections of several offshooting wings. While there are stormy insecurity formations, such as terrorism and banditry, which have remained on top of the burner of national discourse with deep profile of colossal losses, it has been observed that the dispersion of localised forms of ...
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The indictment of Nigeria’s hyped Police Officer, DCP Abba Kyari, by a US court sitting in California over alleged involvement in shady deal with Nigeria’s cyber-crime fraudster, Ramon Abbas, A.K.A. Hushpuppi to the tune of a $1.1million US dollars, has raised doubt over the sincerity of frontline figures within the framework of established authorities in ...
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No doubt, insecurity has worsened in Nigeria to become an albatross. The profiles of insecurity threats and disturbances ravaging the Country recently, has become deep seated with the emergence of variant offshoots compounding to leave a sensation of anarchy. The apparent helplessness of the Government to address the myriad of security challenges in the Country, ...
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Among clogs of sharp practices in Nigeria, the misadventure of cyber-crime has risen to the height of troubles for the Country. The misadventure which more or less has been left to entrench its foothold in the Country, has had its tentacles enlarged to so broad a network that it has acquired for the Country a ...
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Concern on Nigeria’s health sector has remained central among the pressing matters demanding attention in the Country. Several subjects reflecting deficiencies in the sector have constituted matters of national discourse. From issues revolving around poor facilities, poor working conditions for health workers which have been sources of rancour instigating from time to time sporadic industrial ...
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Constitutional matters have been a pressing subject of discourse in Nigeria over time. Most recently, questions revolving around the feasibility of the subsisting 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in catering for pressing demands of recent realities have been a centre of focus. The questioning of the status quo has not far fetched ...
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Clouds have continued to gather with the increasing number of cases testing positive to COVID-19 in the past few weeks in Nigeria. The increase in the records of profile against the cheer of the flattening of the pandemic which informed relaxation of social restrictions and safety protocols, particularly in the first quarter of the year, ...
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Giving consideration to the contribution of Nigeria to foreign missions and interventions is non-contestably on the radar of reflections of depths of sacrifices. The subject becomes very endearing when it comes to the depth of the Country’s contribution to peacekeeping mission within the African continent where the Country is perceived as a leader. It is ...
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Attempt towards censoring the activities of the Press in Nigeria is driving to the height where resistance has begun vehemently to visit the moves. The argument has relied strongly on the fact that the Government in its inability to contain the heightening ravages of disturbances in the Country, has only chosen to resort to gaggling ...
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Linking the huge deficits of basic amenities in Nigeria to a number of deficient reflections and disturbances heating up the Country, has remained an argument which has been justified by connecting strings appearing to be very relative in perception. The deficits in pressing basic social amenities, health services and even education have been linked to ...
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The sensations of vibes which used to colour festivities in Nigeria appear to be seemingly eroding away. Social emotions on the subject appear to have been clouded with unsavoury conditions, creating sensations of nostalgia of years of abundance where people observed festivities in plenty provisions of all sorts of feastings and material provisions including adornment ...
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The menace of drug abuse has continued to attract its share of attention in Nigeria. Recently, clampdown by the Government, particularly through the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has continued to reveal the depth of transactions exchanging hands within the chain of production, trafficking and consumption of hard drugs. It is apparent that the ...
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Poor attention to preservation of human habitat in Nigeria embodies clusters of reservations. The conundrum houses challenges and losses which embody both conspicuous and oblique consequences for the Country. It is apparent from the part of the Government, that the prevalent apathetic disposition to the opportunities and threats of nature configuration have borne varying outcomes ...
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Development in Nigeria has been a subject coloured with depths of discourse. The disheartening echoes of dirge over the state of underdevelopment the Country is wallowing in, has been a parody against the thoughts of what height the Country is expected to have attained by now. The perception of the state of insolvency of the ...
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The subject of local content in Nigeria remains one coloured with distasteful sensations. The discourse over the subject itself draws bearing from the fact of the status of the Country’s profile of industrialisation. It is no doubt that while several nations of the world which used to be in the category of underdeveloped countries, have ...
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Barth Ndubuwah, Port Harcourt The Rivers State University (RSU), Nkpolu-Oroworukwo has matriculated a total of 7,337 students for the 2021/2022 academic session. Admitting the students into the fold of studentship, the Vice Chancellor(VC) of the university, Prof Nlerum Okogbule charged them to be of good conduct while their programmes last. He reminded them that there ...
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Recent reports have begun to reflect increase in the number of cases testing positive to the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria. Emerging dynamics greeting the wave of the pandemic have begun to raise new realities, with the discovery of the highly transmissible COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Delta variant, also known as lineage B.1.617.2. The COVID-19 Delta variant, first ...
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Oil exploration in Nigeria has been a deep seated subject which has taken dimensionally rooted courses in the Country. While the discovery of oil has come with its benefits, it is inarguable that the exploration and development of sectoral activities around it has without doubt come with its disadvantages. Although, the era of oil boom ...
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When Nigeria left the claws of military rule particularly in the enduring fourth republic from 1999, ray of hope appeared to be dawning on the Press in the Country. The expectations must have been the coming of an era where the Press would assume the state of freedom to operate without censorship. The perception must ...