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    Food Scarcity: Treating the challenge as an emergency

    Inflation of food prices in Nigeria continues to pose a great challenge to society serenity. The records have assumed a state of unsavoury narrative becoming utterly unbearable for the poor masses. The attendant effects of the deficit have its impacts resonating on socio-economic aspects of life in the Country. The preponderance of the profile of ...

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    Revamping Nigeria’s Economy: Time to redirect the working course of the power sector arms

    Matters bordering on power in Nigeria, have been a subject which over decades have remained along the lines of popular dissatisfaction. When discussions on the productivity of the power sector are brought to bear, the narrative mostly has always tended stronger towards the walls of lamentation, particularly when comparison is made between the energy requirement ...

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    New Presidency: Using refined diplomatic tools to push Nigeria’s interests with the US

    International politics is a brand of politics that every strategic nation takes great attention to with a quest to strengthen its span of influence. The scope of its spheres of influence, however, dovetail in phases and levels of hierarchical structure with some peculiar formations. There has been classification of diplomatic relations based on relevance of ...

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    Flattening COVID-19 Second Wave: Why reorientation is paramount in local communities

    The expanding wings of the COVID-19 virus keep growing wide as that of an untamed bird. The subject matter, no doubt, has become one of a public discourse brewing clusters of reservations. As efforts from the Government continue to face what has been described as ‘recalcitrant conduct’ from the populace over the virus, the need ...

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    Banditry: Time to tame the spreading wings of a devouring beast

    The heightening of panic from insecurity across Nigeria has assumed an unsavoury profile, as many now live in panic and utter anxiety within their homes. The malady’s impact on the social, economic, psychological and emotional aspects of citizens worsens by the day. The effect has no doubt, left no part of the Country untouched, either ...

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    Failing Economy: Giving thoughts to remodeling systemic administrative leakages

    As the profile of economic records continue to attract unsavoury taste, recommendations as to how best the Federal Government can address the steep in the Nigerian economy has become a subject of broad discourse on its own. The paradox over the state of the Country’s economy amidst the enormity of resources, has continued to put ...

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    Cyber Crime: Time to seal an end to a mischievous wild fire

    The preponderance of cyber crime has most recently become a troubling phenomenon in Nigeria. The spread of the menace like wild fire is an endemic cankerworm eating deep into the fabrics of the entire society. Beyond its domestic troubles, its impact on the image of the Country in the international realm is less desirable. The ...

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    Debt-Servicing Burden: Addressing leakages in Nigeria’s public finance structure

    Concerns over Nigeria’s rising debt profile have begun to hit the rock with attention given to the huge chunk of funds that now settle for debt servicing in the Country’s fiscal expenditure. The debt profile is now indeed a stiffening agent against development of capital projects in the Country. The profile of public debt in ...

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    COVID-19: Stemming down a second wave with decisive move on risk factors

    The fast spread of COVID-19, the dangerous second wave has come with some reservations which call for utmost attention. On Monday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made touching revelations that the country is moving towards a critical state where hospital capacity may no longer be able to accommodate. The threats that this undesirable ...

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    Insecurity: Essence of rebuilding collapsed police infrastructures

    A review of the achievement records attained by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in 2020, as disclosed by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Adamu Mohammed on Monday, revealed that a total of 21,296 criminal suspects involved in various violent crimes were arrested, while 3,347 firearms, 133,496 ammunition and 960 stolen vehicles recovered. In addition, the ...

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    Rising Debt Profile: Reconstituting capital project execution processes

    The increasing debt profile of Nigeria has most recently become a topical matter sparking turbulent concerns. This has mostly attracted reservations and emotional disturbances, particularly when consideration is given to what posterity holds for the Country in the face of rising debt stock. The acquisition of more external loans obtained by the present administration with ...

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    Troubling insecurity profile: Necessity to cut the wings of cultism in Southern Nigeria

    Insecurity profile in Nigeria has grown to become a household character in the present featural definition of the Country. The trouble has grown to bear branches of disturbances assuming variant forms. The woes of terrorism ravaging Northern Nigeria, have had its fair impact extending to other parts of the Country. The rising spate of banditry ...

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    50 per cent Tariff Hike: Need for FG to strike balance on power parameters

    The matter of the workings of a new fiscal year is of top-most concern at the present. The circumstances posed by the strains of unforseen occurrences which compounded the state of a debilitating economy in 2020, demands nothing but utmost rationality and sensitivity in the running patterns of the fiscal orientations of the 2021 economy. ...

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    Remuneration: Saving judicial officers from kick-back inducement

    Issues arising from reports of alleged bribery at the end of Nigeria’s judiciary, has remained a subject coloured with clusters of reservations. The trust placed on the judiciary as the institution of dignity to effect justice in an organised society, is a sanctity that demands nothing but utmost integrity. However, it appears the posture of sustaining ...

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    2021: Strategising to raise Nigeria from the precipice of a turbulent year

    2020 has been a challenging year with series of socio-economic and political turbulence. An unbiased account of a review of the Year will purely reveal annual records saturated with tough soci-economic and political conditions. The effects of a number of unforseen circumstances which clustered in chains, made the ways of reckoning with the realities of ...