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    Contesting Billings: Tackling metering deficit to address energy theft

    The Nigerian power sector, like other sectors in the Country, has its sphere marred with defecting characters. The concern over the wobbling state of the power sector in the Country has continued to draw resonance over the years. Unsurprising, of the strong bearing the sector holds to the working performance of the economy in whole. ...

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    Power failure: Dealing with the sectoral leakages from the background

    The subject of corruption is one deficient character of governance in the political administration of the Nigeria polity. The expanding wings of the escapades are themselves subjects of broad discourse which have extended their tentacles with sprouting branches to offshoot into categorical phenomena. The walking train of corruption profile in the Country has grown beyond ...

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    Reawakening of Niger-Delta militancy: Addressing communal welfare and development to avert threats

    Some standing matters of stormy potentials which have been treated negligently, apparently have systematically manifested in the background to grow wings of disturbances that constitute threats to the Nigerian Federation. The nonchalance which is a typical character of the political culture in the Country, is one big problem which has led manageable challenges to degenerate ...

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    Institutional strains: Addressing the foundation by constitutional modifications

    Questions as to why situations continue to wax gross across various endeavours of socio-economic and political sphere in Nigeria, have been traced by keen observers to the manifestations of institutional failures to meet up with the demands of new realities. The perceptual assessment of the grounds of this position hold sway in the fact that ...

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    Legislative summons: Saying no to rubber-stamp assemblies

    Proper political communication is a key phenomenon which remains germane to the defining character of the workings of democratic climates. The subject borders on giving expression to virtually every standing pillar of the tenets of democracy. Such principles of responsiveness, accountability, openness and transparency are core tenets of democracy which expounding expression find reflection in the ...

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    Security threats: Dealing with troubling chronicles of hard drugs proliferation

    Illegal operations apparently remain one field of activity in Nigeria growing wings and spreading tentacles across the Country. The subject on its own is one broad matter of discourse that categorically bears variant wings of phenomenon of national consequences. While the discourse on several forms of illegal operations in Nigeria have been largely long-winded, ready ...

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    Oil theft: Building virile structures to secure petroleum resources

    Nigeria's depth of petroleum resources surely holds much potential when viewed from that lens. However, considering disappointing antecedents such optimism wanes. This is strongly indisputable with the glaring perception that the depth of the resources have not translated into buoyant economy nor has it informed appreciably, any resemblance of palatable conditions of living in the ...

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    New Variants of COVID-19: A change in orientation, key to flattening all dynamic turns

    As the COVID-19 pandemic keeps on troubling the world, the apparent intrigues of the virus continue to face off with new dimensional wings of concerns. While the entire world is affected by the virus, there has been some peculiar modes of its intensity and dynamic outbreak across regions. Every Country seems to have some level ...

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    Inter-ethnic face-off: Time for all gate-keepers to sit on the same page

    Controversies on national issues have continued to ensue from recent matters facing off in the Nigerian Federation. In every sane entity, it is rational that when matters of national concern arise, government authorities should arise to deploy state architecture towards addressing such matters with the most responsive approach. The subjects of national concern which have ...

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    Insecurity and poor economic records: Inter-State collaboration as panacea

    Recent manifestations of the workings of socio-economic and political dysfunctional realities have begun to assume worsening dimension. Economic conditions in the Country have far worsened with reservations which are compounding to generate chains of troubles shaking the fabrics of the Country. Prevailing records of economic outcome continue to reflect deepening profile with alarming concerns. Figures ...

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    Food importation: Attending to Nigeria’s paradox via mechanised agriculture

    The call for the full embrace of agriculture has been one of the reoccurring subjects in recent times. The resonance of the call has most recently increased, particularly in the face of deepening economic recession which has left the socio-economic atmosphere of the Country in a state of shambles. The erosion of the value of ...

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    Ebola: Checking against the threat of another health emergency

    Public health emergencies are critical subjects that constructively call the attention of all and sundry to bear. The outbreak of life threatening epidemics have been known to be with men for centuries. While the sources of some of these epidemics were easily identified and established, there are some whose sources have been difficult to unravel ...

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    Heated Polity: Redirecting the economy by leveraging on Nigeria’s comparative advantage

    As several matters are presently brewing pressures in Nigeria, the interconnectivity of various factors responsible for the preponderance of unsavoury outcomes and escapades must be put into sight in any reasonable effort towards putting things in shape. One major aspect of human endeavour which bearing effects on other aspects of life remains potently strong is ...

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    Gas flaring: Abridging systemic leakages to mitigate economic and environmental hazards

    Systemic leakages are phenomena which are known to be common to the working state of various sectors in Nigeria. The lacunae left by these deficiencies have over the years left virtually all sectors largely underdeveloped, and as a result under-performing below the standard of expected output. As the macroeconomy of the Country continue to suffer ...

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    Proactive dialogue: The way to forestall disintegration

    The topical subject of communal clashes has been a phenomenon of long historical bearings in the entities that predate the political marriage that led to what is now called Nigeria. Historical records have established the reality of clashes between and among local communities, engendered by several sources of struggles for supremacy. According to history, these ...

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    Remodeling Nigeria’s education to embrace digitization

    The profile of education in Nigeria is one riddled with disappointment. The erosion of standards over the years has been a subject of resounding concern. What has brought increased scrutiny is the argument that education in Nigeria has never grown to any satisfactory record near the standard of the developed world. It therefore becomes troubling ...

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    Drug trafficking: Taming the menace largely responsible for national insecurity

    Drug trafficking in Nigeria has been one phenomenon of concern which in itself bears strings of stormy social, economic and political impacts in the Country. The resonance of the proliferation of hard drugs into Nigeria recently has had its reflecting links on the profiles of the preponderance of social ills, manifesting in disturbing heights across ...

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    Building virile architecture to dismantle the networks of Cyber Crime

    The manifestations of social and moral decadence in the Nigerian society continue to deepen. The records of vices of different sorts brewing winds of stormy weather across the Country, seriously pushes the societal fabrics towards the lines of disturbances and unpalatable cohabitation. While the vices continue to assume different dimensions with new facial outlooks, the ...

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    2023: Working towards E-Voting to disenfranchise electoral foul-play

    Electoral matters within the Nigerian political space remain a touchy subject. These subjects no doubt, remain one of the most contested matters in Nigerian politics. The lines of manifestations that surround the waves of activities before, during and after elections are matters that mostly generate confusing sensations. Pre and post election contests have always been ...

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    Disturbing COVID-19 Wave: The onus on the Nigerian populace

    Worries over the threats that the second wave of COVID-19 portend to the Nigerian entity have become a subject of concern. While the Government is grappling with the reality of managing the spread of the virus amidst shrink in resources under an atmosphere of economic recession, the response of the populace to these efforts, according ...

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    Corruption Index: To redeem Nigeria from systemic collapse now more exigent

    Profile of Nigeria’s corruption record has continued to wax worse with distasteful sensations. The phenomenon has grown to spread the wings of its tentacles across the fabric of the entire society. It is one of the featural character which has come to rub off on the definition of what Nigeria is. The perception of Nigeria ...

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    Danger signs: Giving thought to proscribing untraceable nomads

    The misadventure of herdsmen across the Country has become a worrisome phenomenon, causing endless agony whose heavy consequences are spreading across the entire Federation. The shovelling of their misadventure on farms and their settlements is one of the character of the troublesome radars of their misconducts which has been recorded to be bearing huge blow ...

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    Forestalling a flight to an anarchical State

    There are have been volumes of thoughts regarding the chains of events informing the state-of-the-nation in Nigeria in recent times. These range from the perceived ineptitudeness of the government to address the pressing matters of concern; the seemingly selective application of rule of law to some perceived sacred group of people in the Country; the interrogation ...