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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Health
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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By Jerry Lazarus I finally had an opportunity to go through the senate and house committee reports on the PIB. The main thrust of the bill is to open up the Nigeria oil and gas industry to investment, strengthen industry governance and regulation to expand, grow and maximize value capture for Nigeria and her citizens. ...
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By Oluwaseun Owojori Flyover is an important road structure mostly built on intersections to carry away the uninterrupted traffic, mostly in urban areas. In order to curb the transportation problems within and around the Capital City of Oshogbo, the transformative and progressive government of the State of Osun ably and reliably led Gov Gboyega Oyetola ...
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By Rotimi Makinde Prominent Yoruba figures have contributed immensely to the development of the Nigerian state. The likes of Herbert Macaulay, Obafemi Awolowo, Samuel Akintola, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Remi Fani-Kayode, etc; they all played pivotal roles in the fight to advance the human rights of the colonized and nationalist struggle towards self-determination prior to independence in ...
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By: Taiwo Kolawole Hassan The Emergent Queer: Homosexuality and Nigerian Fiction in the 21st Century, LINDSEY GREEN-SIMMS of the American University began with this first salvo, saying, “In Wole Soyinka’s 1965 novel The Interpreters, the African American professor Joe Golder, perhaps one of the most well known gay characters in African literature, says to the ...
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Hon Rotimi Makinde, former Member of the House of Representatives and former deputy chairman of Human Rights Committee of the 7th Assembly states that Nigeria is like a theatre of comedy where sentiments are allowed to becloud people's sense of reasoning and the position of the law and even the law enforcement agents are equally ...
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By Goke Ilesanmi Last week, we said as a politician, for instance, you need to master the art of effective public speaking and persuasive communication to succeed because you must be able to convince the electorate and even win opposition over during electoral campaigns so that they can vote for you. We added that research ...
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By Femi Adesina New things are happe-ning at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and suddenly, there’s a throwback to the 1996-1999 Lagos State, when the then Colonel Mohammed Buba Marwa was military administrator. Marwa took a broom, and swept Lagos almost clean. With Operation Sweep, criminals were given bloody noses, and sent scampering ...
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By Dakuku Peterside Last week, something with significant but far-reaching diplomatic implications happened in security circles, particularly in the maritime security sphere. Denmark, a tiny European community of 5.3m people, less than the size and population of Rivers State in Nigeria, resolved to send a frigate to patrol and police Gulf of Guinea waters. The decision follows a ...