In the rational course of human interactions, people ordinarily elect to live in peaceful and harmonious co-existence with fellow species, neighbours, and within societies, underpinned by equality, equity, freedom, justice …
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New worries of a golden boy
It is most probably that “the celebration of Chief Don Obot Etiebet ‘ by the Petroleum Club Lagos was the last public event attended by Governor Umo Eno before death …
Read More »Navigating the constitutional conundrum for creation of Adada State
There is no doubt that a topic bordering on state creation in Nigeria, seems not to be of legal domain but within the niche of political actors and power brokers, …
Read More »Public interest litigation in Nigeria: Challenges and opportunities
Very recently, the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Lagos, in collaboration with the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), organised a seminar on the state of …
Read More »Requiem for division of labour
The economic management team of President Bola Tinubu that wants to create jobs for unemployed youths pounding the streets of Nigeria’s urban centres, must know that jobs that were easily …
Read More »The good, bad, and ugly of Nigerian banks
According to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics: “The history of modern Banking in Nigeria dates back to 1892 with the establishment of the African Banking Corporation in Lagos. In 1894, …
Read More »Consumer credit as catalyst for economic revitalisation, job creation – Part 2
According to the World Bank, Credit Infrastructure, which is the first key pillar, refers to the sets of laws, institutions, and mechanisms that enable the efficient and secure extension of …
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In 1982, on the foothills of the road to Nigeria’s 1983 general elections, it was quite clear that the ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN), had no plans to declare …
Read More »Why Nigerian society is in a sorry state
The deplorable state of Nigeria is precisely because all our political leaders, since colonial independence in 1960, have adhered to a paradigm that prescribes the use of budgeting as a …
Read More »Foreign aids as Africa’s pandora box – Part 2
The success of global poverty reduction is dominated by Asia, where high-impact structural reforms were used to develop a self-sustaining economy and break from the shackles of Western hegemony. In …
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