Eleven times this year, the country’s national grid has suffered collapse, repeatedly plunging the country into darkness. There is no other jarring evidence of the need for power reforms than …
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Mandatory vocational skills as antidote to dysfunctional education system
The continued relevance of Nigeria’s school curricula to the contemporary necessity of skills acquisition has, over the years, elicited The post Mandatory vocational skills as antidote to dysfunctional education system …
Read More »Nigeria’s criminal justice system needs total overhaul
The detention of scores of minors for participating in the protests against bad governance underscores a disturbing trend within the country’s criminal justice system and poses serious questions about the …
Read More »Nigeria does not need special university for local languages
The proposal for the establishment of a University of Languages, being considered by the House of Representatives, is a misdirected way of addressing an existential problem of the rapid fading …
Read More »Abandoned projects hurt development
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was right. At a recent event, he lamented the culture of one administration throwing overboard the projects initiated by its predecessor, no matter their importance or the …
Read More »Law and order in South-East deserve government priority
The recurrent breakdown of law and order in Nigeria’s Southeast is a cause for concern. The killings, destruction of property and monumental losses in businesses and man-hours occasioned by the …
Read More »Forensic audit of NNPCL long overdue
The World Bank Group gave a damning verdict about the operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCL) in its Accelerating Resource Mobilisation Reforms (ARMOR) Report released on May 17, …
Read More »Police, NSCDC officers fighting on duty must face the law
In what can only be described as a complete breach of professional ethics and public trust, officers of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps …
Read More »October 7: Search for peace in the Middle East
Israel’s brutal response to the unprecedented October 7, 2023 terrorist attack by Hamas that killed 1,206 people and abducted 251 hostages The post October 7: Search for peace in the …
Read More »RMAFC and the necessity to cut high cost of governance
The advice of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) through its Chairman, Mohammed Bello Shehu, The post RMAFC and the necessity to cut high cost of governance appeared …
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