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The past few days for power users across the Country, would no doubt be sour with the experience of epilepsy in the flow of electricity supply. Although, supply of electricity in the Country has never appreciably been known to be evenly spread with consistency and reliability, the past few days would be much more disappointing ...
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The collision of myriads of threatening security formations, ravaging the Nigerian society has heightened to become an albatross. Travellers along the Kaduna-Abuja road Friday afternoon, would have no doubt been cut in fear when report that the route has been overtaken by bandits came forth. Former Kaduna Senator, Shehu Sani, in a tweet on Friday ...
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Transportation in Nigeria has over time been a subject coloured with records of fatalities. While road accidents in the Country have been a phenomenon of rife occurrences with records of catastrophic calamities, other forms of transport accidents though not as pronounced as the records of the former, have also had their profile of calamities. The ...
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Calls over restructuring of the Nigerian Federation have in recent times drawn more attention. The growing nature of the subject is apparently moving from the embryo stage to assume a campaign-like posture. The evolving dimension of the subject with reverberating calls, is apparently pushing it beyond the stature of stunted growth under which it had ...
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Attention over the recent repatriated £4.2million James Ibori loot has since gathered cloud, following the disclosure of the arrival of the fund by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN. The AGF had also last week disclosed plans to repatriate more than £80m of Ibori’s loot just as he ...
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The preponderance of sharp practices in Nigeria have continued to wax gross most recently. The value of transactions exchanging hands through illegal networks appears to be mind boggling. The worsening profile of economic fortune in the Country, has been alluded to as the necessary instigator of the expanding adventure of illicit trades in the Country. ...
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Just last week, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, disclosed that the Federal Government had recovered over $700million looted funds, as well as secured a return of £4.2million linked to former Delta State Governor, James Ibori. The AGF had also disclosed plans to repatriate more than £80m ...
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The proliferation of records of incidences of gas explosions across the Country is gradually becoming an albatross. From the records of incidents of collosal explosion which used to be the case, the domestic incidents of gas accidents have most recently grown to make records of gas related accidents (within domestic shore) a phenomenon of reoccurring ...
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Why power custodians must stop rearing dangerous serpents The strategic use of thugs by government functionaries to sponsor some causes or purposes through subterranean tactics is one major instigating phenomenon studies have shown to be contributing to brewing storms of anarchy in the Country. It is apparent that the perceived inability of Government authorities to ...
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The recent resolution of Southern State Governors under the aegis of the Southern Governors Forum, is one recent political subject raising concerns with reactions from various quarters. It is apparent that the development has begun to tear apart and raise formations with build up of political blocs. While some blocs have commended the move of ...
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The echoes of diversifying the Nigerian economy to salvage it from the scourge of depression and recession have been resounding since the woes of the economy have come to constitute strong forces brewing storms of disturbances in the Country. As attention has been drawn to Agriculture, some proposals which are considered as apparent intriguing ideas ...
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The echoes of missing public funds have recently become a resounding rhythm in the ears of Nigerians. From perceived skewed escapades to narratives of project duplications even within budgetary instruments, the sensations of foul play believed to be mischievous crafts have been brought to notations. It will be apparent that the degree to which Nigerians ...
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The collision of several winds of socio-economic and political turbulence in Nigeria has brought the Country to the point where the call for prayers has been reverberating most recently. The turn to this call may not be far fetched, as it is mostly believed that when situations have gone out of human control, the resort ...
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Agriculture in Nigeria most recently has been coloured with unappealing-dynamic adornment. This largely owes to the manifestations of new waves of stormy winds brewing against the sector. While it is known that the sector is largely impoverished by clusters of deficiencies which have left it at an infantile state, it is lamentable that recent happenings ...
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The subject of Nigeria’s unity perceptually falls within the category of nebulous subjects encumbered with contending perspectives. The perusal of the possibilities of the unity of the Country has thus become a subject of divergent views which brings the course of “one Nigeria” to the bar of assuming a controversial status. Most recent happenings across ...
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If not a necessity under other systems of government, under democracy it is. The need for accountability remains one core tenet of democracy which readily finds expression in the definition of what the system itself is crafted to be. The evolution of the system has grown to be synchronised with the needs for explanations to ...
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While Nigeria is still grappling with the abduction of a number of students by bandit operation from the Greenfield University on Tuesday, 20 April 2021, in Kasarami village, Chikun LGA, Kaduna State, an ugly development that has heightened insecurity fear in the Country, another panicky disclosure came up again to public hearing on Thursday notifying ...
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Constructive criticism with the architecture of strong opposition is one character of the democratic system. The practicality of such structures is known to be a leverage to put a ruling government on its toes. In this light, the concept of bi-party and multi-party systems have been institutionalised within the political architecture of polities across the ...
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The worsening of security profile in Nigeria has recently become an albatross. The brewing storms have been finding expression with the collision of several decadence which recently have begun to assume explosive dimensions. The troubles over security threats have recently been sending fear down the spine of many. The flagging wings of various accumulating security ...
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The privatisation of major national assets in Nigeria remains within the construct of conflicting subjects of interests when juxtaposition is made with the objectives of such arrangement and the outcome that accrued from the end results. The assessment of the identifiable records of the performance profile of monumental assets privatised over time apparently bends stronger ...
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Nigerian Labour Unions might not have pictured inflation in their calculations when they campaigned for a N30,000 minimum wage. It would be recalled that moves by Labour Unions towards the drive for the demand of a review of the minimum wage applicable in the Country to N30,000, began to take reverberating turn particularly since late ...
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Nigeria may not be deeply aware of the depth of international impacts and losses that the menace of cyber crime has been costing the Country over time. Perhaps, the poor practice and understanding of diplomatic relations might be readily pointed to as one reason why the campaign against internet fraud has been driven with mild ...
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The tentacles of trafficking and trade in hard drugs have continued to wax stronger even as law enforcement operations continue to hunt after perpetrators of the crime. It is more or less apparent that the operations of law enforcement agents have largely not carried enough parameters of deterrence to deter misadventurers in the sharp practice ...
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The turn of attention to schools as soft targets by bandits has in recent time become troubling in Nigeria. It is apparent that the susceptibility of schools in the Northern part of the Country currently ravaged by the storms of banditry and terrorism, has become a thorn in the flesh. The antecedent of abducting school ...
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The wobbling state of power is one of the pulling strings constituting debilitating forces compounding with several other disturbances to give weakening definitions to the profile of the Nigerian economy. The definitions of the state of the sector have been a subject coloured with disarray of deficient characters. The definitions of the working profile apparently ...
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The resuscitating breath of insurgency in the North-East has begun to assume troubling dimension in new stormy waves. The wildering wings of the boko-haram/ISWAP terrorists have begun again to receive strength. The debilitating effects this time may go too far beyond bearable limits following the evolution of variant forms of other security challenges, such as ...
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The expression of dimensions of social decadence in broad terms have continued to form augmenting clutch which has been segmenting with the norms in the Nigerian society. As several dimensions of social ills continue to grow into pronounced phenomena, the definitions of what is right or otherwise in the societal formations of Nigeria is becoming ...
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Security challenges in Nigeria have come to overtake the ranking of worries in the Country. Across the Federation, variant forms of insecurity formations have segmented into offsprings which have continued to ravage the entire Nigerian societal fabric. While every region within the categorical division of the Federation into geo-political zones, have some sort of peculiar ...
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As several offsprings within the social fabrics of the Nigerian society continue to spring forth, clues have been drawn from the potency of the worsening state of the economy as a strong underlying factor evoking myriads of these storms. Hence, it is not far fetched that the reconditioning effects of the debilitating profile of the ...
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Nigeria has had its fair-share of social upheaveal in recent times. The dimensional navigation, however saddening, has been bending towards delinquencies that speak to reflections of social decadence. The evolution of several troubling phenomena have continued to manifest with offshoots of several disturbances. The state of turbulence which has engulfed the Country could be linked ...