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By Garba Shehu The purpose of the President’s trip to Turkey, December 16th to 19th was to participate in the 3rd Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, with an appealing theme: “Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity.” Our national strategy was laid out before departure, based on a strong optimism that the summit will work well for all ...
The peaceful conduct of the Nov. 6, Anambra governorship election has proved that democracy has come to stay in the country. Prior to the election, there were threats by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that the election would not hold. There were also attacks on offices and equipment of the Independent National Electoral ...
By Erasmus Ikhide In strategic scientific study of crime, it’s well noted that enormous variety among criminals and criminal acts in complex societies such as Nigeria must be pigeonholed holed into the typology of crime to achieve solutions to the casualties of human dysfunctionalities. It will be helpful to know that about one-third of all ...
Unarguably, agricultural technology transfer plays major role in transforming agricultural production. It facilitates the movement of skills essential for improving farm production. George Mgendi, Mao Shipping and Cheng Xiang, authors of “A Review of Agricultural Technology Transfer in Africa: Lessons from Japan and China Case Projects in Tanzania and Kenya,” were emphatic about the importance ...
By Muhammadu Buhari It is possible that the first contact was made in 1601 between the French and the peoples of “Guinee” – the name for the lands we know today as Nigeria. Only a few years before, the then Protestant King of France Henry had devised a plan for adventurer Francois Pyrard de Laval ...
There’s a grown fears and threats of Social disturbances everywhere in our nation ranging from banditry, terrorism, self-determination, self-actualisation,et.al. but at that Osun State is absolutely peaceful due to the capable economic and social management. In recent time, the emergence of a splinter group, TOP, from the fold of the ruling party, APC, seems harmless ...
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta The PDP Zoning Committee under the leadership of Enugu State governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has said that 2023 presidential contest under the party is open to any of the six geo-political zones but the seat of the national Chairman of the party and other offices previously hold by the south would automatically return ...
President Muhammad Buhari in his inaugural address in 2019 for a second term in office, promised to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years. To achieve this, Buhari created the Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs (MSDIA). The ministry has the mandate to develop and implement policies, programmes and projects for the ...
By Dakuku Peterside In recent times, we have been bombarded with news of insecurity, corruption, and secession agitations in Nigeria that we have become so used to them. News and images of kidnapping, ethnic killings, and mayhem, like horror movies, litter our media space, which have almost become an acceptable reality of life. The problems ...
By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D There are strong indications that the National Water Resources Bill 2020 will soon be reintroduced at the National Assembly. If passed into law, communities and people living along water fronts in the country, particularly Niger Delta Region, Lagos State and other aquatic areas in the country will be deprived of their ...
By Issa Ibrahim The coast may not yet be clear, but the stage is gradually taking shape for the race to Aso Rock Villa in 2023 and the push for a Nigerian President of South East extraction is gathering speedy momentum. The 2023 presidential poll is just over 20 months away but there are already ...
COVID-19 vaccination has already started to generate heated arguments following a hint that the Federal Government could start sanctioning anybody who refuses to be vaccinated. Dr Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA), disclosed this at a recent press conference in Abuja. He, however, said that implementation was dependent on availability of ...
Observers note that kidnappings and abductions of pupils and students in various schools, especially in some parts of the north, have amplified the roles of gender discrimination, disasters, conflict, poverty, language barrier, child labour and forced marriage in forcing more children out of school. They note that no fewer than 1,000 children have been kidnapped in ...
A giant-sized jinx was broken recently when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced a first Net Profit in the 44-year history of the organization. Under President Muhammadu Buhari, who doubles as Minister for Petroleum Resources, the oil conglomerate announced a first-ever profit of N287 billion. Such had never happened before. But that was by ...
Author: Sheila Holm Publisher: Jetmove Reviewer: Goke Ilesanmi You need to conduct research and write a good business plan if you want to succeed in business. In fact, starting a business without having a good business plan realised through a comprehensive feasibility study shows lack of business direction. It is in the ...
By Erasmus Ikhide THE scourge of corruption is one of the reasons why Nigeria is not living up to its ‘Giant of Africa’ Shibboleth and has continued to crawl on her knees in adult diapers to the chagrin of her countrymen both at home and in the Diaspora. Since Independence, billions of dollars has been ...
By Dakuku Peterside We started this series penultimate week with permutations regarding the conventions and congresses of Nigeria’s two major political parties – the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the run-up to the 2023 general elections. Last week, we examined the different scenarios that may play out ...
By Tim Akano Ralph Waldo Emerson that propounded the Theory of Compensation in 1841, argued that Nemesis is as certain as the night begets the day. Emerson added that all unjust accumulation of wealth, power and privileges by a person, ethnic group, nation-state, continent, race or religious group is not tax-free. In other words, unwritten ...
By Kehinde Olaosebikan The Nigerian sports betting and gaming industry has grown astronomically in the last few years. This exceptional growth can be attributed to the large population, especially the number of youths, increased access to digital telephones, successful internet penetration, increased access to internet-enabled devices and significant awareness being engendered by NLRC. However, in ...
By Dakuku Peterside Last week we started a series about possible scenarios in our match to the decisive year 2023. The year 2023 represents a watershed of a sort because the forces at play today in the political space and national life constitute a credible threat to National Unity. We have never been this polarised ...
By FEMI ADESINA How did you feel watching Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, inspecting the just completed multi-million dollars bridge at Ikom, Cross River State, early this week? Any person of goodwill, not overtaken by bile and ill will, would feel proud to be a Nigerian. Such people would be proud of ...
Continue from Monday edition be certain absolute limits on constitutional amendment. In 1965, Conrad gave a lecture on “Implied Limitations of the Amending Power” at the Law Faculty of the Banaras Hindu University, and afterwards wrote significant articles in Indian law journals on implied limits on constitutional amendment. The first and most important article was ...
By Dakuku Peterside You could call it premonitions, dreams, forecasts, or revelations. I have a clear guesstimate of possible scenarios that will shape our political future and help us better understand what will most likely happen before, during, and after the 2023 elections in Nigeria. I have untangled the scenarios into four different periods or ...
One of the greatest political activities in Nigeria is to dishonestly heap the blame of all the challenges arising from our shortcomings on the 1999 Constitution as amended. From outright demand of a new constitution fashioned on the 1963 constitution to power devolution or restructuring, the voice and pen are highly strong and unanimous for ...
In a country whose dreaded anticorruption agency is racing toward zero-graft society where cyber criminals and politicians no longer exploit the weak and deactivated institutions and the finite resources, but rather abandon detrimental pathways to fraud. Forcing the dubious amongst us to heed to a chorus call for a corrupt-free-Nigeria and resilient future is celebratory. ...
