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Threats to the agriculture sector in Nigeria have grown most recently to brew socio-economic winds ravaging the societal fabrics of the Country. The perspective could be conceived in the light of the manifestations of the impacts which food insecurity has the potential to effect on any society. The scarcity of food in the Country has ...
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Turning attention to borrowing most recently has attained a level of constancy in the choices of the present Administration. The resort would obviously be given explanation as an attempt to cover up for deficits in infrastructures demanding capital provisions for their execution. It is however, troubling that the reoccurring turn to obtaining loans at sporadic ...
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The subject of the existence of exploitable leakages in the working operations of the systemic configuration of sectors in Nigeria as a subject of concern, has remained a sapping source of resources to the detriment of the Nigerian State as an entity and the people it serves. The cheat suffered by the populace over the ...
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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 asuming a somewhat ‘menace’ dimension. To some, the menace constitutes nuisance to what the configuration of coordinated cohabitation should assume in the society. The increasing profile of beggars littering ...
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The secessionist drumbeats echoing in recent time have formed one of the rising phenomena of disturbances, brewing winds of confusion in Nigeria. The advocacy is by and large a threat to the Federal character of the Nigerian Republic. The resistance to the campaign by the Government could be traceable to the character of a Federal ...
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The turbulence of farmers/herders crisis has over the years been a subject of concern in Nigeria. While the threat at the sprouting level was never attended to firmly, it is saddening that the lacklustre posture of successive governments to deal with the threat has degenerated into a phenomenon that is impacting the entire fabric of ...
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The subject of state police has been one of the topical state-of-the-nation discourse in recent time. However, the controversies surrounding the possibilities of having state police portend a blurry reflection. The subject falls among one of those definite necessities requiring structural redefinition of refocusing the institutional orientation of Government in the Country. Hence, any profound ...
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The mere mention of food scarcity in Nigeria speaks much of a paradox. Deeper reflection would inundate critical thinking when thought is given to the volume of food importation into the Country, when rather she is at all advantage to be a leading giant in food production and exportation. The inability to transform the agricultural ...
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By Asishana John Coronation Insurance has paid out a sum of N1.6 billion claims in the first quarter of 2021. This amount represents a 43 per cent rise year on year from the N1.1 billion it paid during the period last year. This company disclosed this in its unaudited interim financial statement for the period ...
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Discordances from insecurity threats in Nigeria are worsening to become uncontrollable tempests across the Country. While the winds have assumed several dimensions, the trend of kidnapping, particularly for ransom, has become a rising menace whose wings are stretching so wild at disturbing length. The turn of bandits to employing kidnap-for-ransom tactics in their operations has ...
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Frivolous spending has been one character of the Nigerian Government which evidently has had its discomforting effects on the Country. The prevailing shortfall in revenue accruing to the Government coffers has presented situations before the Government, where it is struggling to meet financial obligations of recurrent, and at the same time satisfy appropriately, capital expenditure ...
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The mere mention of the phenomenon of drug abuse in Nigeria would send signals of warnings when consideration is given to the impact analysis the phenomenon poses to societal formations and coexistence. The preponderance of criminal dispositions have been established to be holding strong strings to the rise in the pervasive abuse of hard drugs. ...
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Food indisputably remains salient among the basic human needs. No phantom alternative for this has been devised yet. Hence, men would continue to have need of food for sustenance and survival. The prime place of food among other human necessities has placed it in a position where more conscious efforts are directed towards making adequate ...
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The worsening of insecurity in Nigeria has continued to bear its strings of turbulence across sectors in the Country. The challenge has grown to become so turbulent with ravaging effects on the entire fabric of the Country, as the vitiating tentacles are wide spreading to break down working patterns of cohabitation. Analytical perusal of the ...
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The call for restructuring the Nigerian Federation has remained a reverberating echo of topical concern in the discourse of state-of-the-nation. The resonating frequency of the call has graduated to attract much attention as it has been advanced and propagated to be the ready and feasible solution to the degenerating socio-economic and political turbulence prevailing with ...
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Crime rate in Nigeria has heightened with the clustering of several offshoots of wings of ills graduating into broad social turbulence. The rate of such crime as armed robbery, kidnapping, banditry, homicide and rape, among others, are expanding to take broader spread of disturbing tentacles. The dimensions of crimes which are more or less perpetrated ...
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Accountability profile from among institutions of government in Nigeria has been a major topical issue when consideration is given to the assessment of governance in the Country. The poor profile of this principle of governance constitute one of the defective characters making the definitions of good governance in the Country a facade. The rate of ...
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The emphasis on the significance of reforms as pragmatic methodologies to redressing the structural shanties occasioning the vitiating status of the Nigerian economy, has become topical in recent state-of-the-nation discourse. On Tuesday, at the occasion of the presentation of the Nigeria Development Update, a bi-annual publication of the World Bank on the economic outlook of ...
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Discourse over the state of the Nigerian economy has been one of mixed colourations. The ready reflections of the songs to revamp the economy have been with resonating effects in recent times. However, the recognition of red signals which readily pose worries with pessimistic tendencies have continued to regenerate themselves with strings of strains compounding ...
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Although the celebration of this year’s Democracy Day brings the Country’s record of unaltered administration of democratic government to 22 years, it is insightful that many are largely dissatisfied than a few who would say otherwise. The grounds for such dissatisfaction would not be far fetched from the disappointment of the expectations many believed would ...
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Attacks on Police infrastructures across Nigeria, have graduated to become a troubling phenomenon. The dimensional status which the phenomenon is assuming in recent times, remains a source of worry when consideration is given to the fact that an institution which is meant to be the source of protection for citizens, has itself become an endangered ...
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Election in Nigeria has remained one of the subjects coloured with controversies. On broader ground, the discourse on the Nigerian political culture itself has been one of multifaceted conundra. The subject of the character of election itself has been premised, within theoretical categorisation, to be informed by the political culture in the Country. Rigging, pre- ...
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While Nigeria seeks development, it appears the necessary apparatuses to drive growth are not in capacious conditions to engineer the required impetus for such development to meaningfully take course. Among other growth driving parameters, power in Nigeria has over the years remained in the categorical state of inefficiency. The promise by successive administrations to address ...
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The tales that the larger percentage of sectors in the Country, Nigeria, are to high degrees not in good condition, is apparently defensible with pointers of severe defecting characters which define the posture of the working patterns of these sectors. The health sector in Nigeria is one point of note in the discourse of sectoral ...
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While Nigeria’s population continues to rise with the manifestations of all possible attendant phenomena of change, it is apparent that efforts directed towards parameters of developmental architecture navigated proactively and consciously to appreciably make situations fall in place towards embracing new realities with sensibilities, are evidently missing. It is therefore, indisputable that the preponderance of ...
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The menace of hard drugs in Nigeria has most recently begun to assume adisturbing turn with red flags, as a result of increased transactions within the network of the sharp practice. Although not a new phenomenon, the expanding tentacles of the ill has borne several linkable strings which have been noted to constitute grounds of ...
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One subject of concern which over time has fallen among the myriads of controversial subjects of governance in Nigeria, is the discourse over Constituency Projects. The clause which is believed to be projects injected into annual Budget by legislators for specific projects for their constituencies, have dwelt long amidst the shadow of controversies. Arguments over ...
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The subject of the positional status of the subsisting Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which is that of 1999, has been one topical matter of concern in the assessment of thoughts over the prevailing state of nation. Calls for review of the legal document have over time been taken too lightly. However, the ...
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While the scourge of security threats from bandit and terrorist operations in Nigeria have largely been known to be a ravaging character of the North, it is saddening that the extending tentacles of the menaces are spreading their wings to other parts of the Country. The South most recently have begun to have a taste ...
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While Nigeria continues to battle with the ravages of financial constraint leaving the Government pressurised, the profile of revenue leakages has not ceased from its oscillating patterns within the systemic architecture of Government framework in the Country. Hence, while the echelons of Government authorities have continued to lament revenue shortfalls, leakages of Government revenue within the ...