Josiah Majebi is the fifth Chief Judge of Kogi State (in north-central Nigeria) in four years and the fourth to exist almost entirely in the pocket of the state governor. …
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Navigating protectionism in modern economic landscape: Lessons from U.S. Part 2
Furthermore, currency is an instrument used to facilitate exchange of values within an economy. The value of a Nation’s currency in comparison to another country is a measure of how …
Read More »Olu Obafemi’s commitment to funding Nigeria’s public universities – Part 2
We continue our serene trip in Professor Olu Obafemi’s Nigerian boat of public universities’ funding. The pudding we are being served is bewitching to tongues of all who are tasting …
Read More »Citizens’ civic responsibility: Tersoo Umechir example
Certainly, this is not the best of times for Nigeria. Every socio-economic index is a pointer that Nigeria is at its lowest level. Both the governments at all levels and …
Read More »The pluralistic relativism of critics and criticisms
In his poem, The Volunteer Day, C. Lewis took an emotional and retrospective glance at the travails, trauma and tribulations of the volunteers of war for ancient England. “It was not …
Read More »NIN-SIM linkage and the Nigeria we desire
Rights and responsibilities are the twin words that best describe the inception and the increasing impact of digital technology, a major strand of which is the dynamic contemporary telecommunication services. …
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Walter Lippmann, an American and a political commentator once said “where all agree, none think much”. The post Navigating protectionism in modern economic landscape: Lessons from U. S. appeared first …
Read More »Propelling Nigerian sports through private sector investment
Around the mid-week of April 2021, the U-17 World Cup-winning goalkeeper Dele Ajiboye and Enyimba striker, Tosin Omoyele, urged billionaire businessmen Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola to invest in the …
Read More »Pushed to the wall over state police – Part 3
The Mid-West reserved its position on the clause ‘which may involve the use of arms’. (3) Training facilities, depots and stores shall be organised on a Regional basis. Recruitment shall …
Read More »One-party state political models and realpolitik
Without a shadow of a doubt, Abraham Lincoln’s characterisation of democracy, jurisprudentially grounded in the ideals of equality, freedom and liberty, as the government of the people, by the people, …
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