Newscenter Media News THE plight of students at the University of Lagos, Akoka, stranded off-campus due to delayed hostel renovations, serves as a glaring indictment of the Federal Government’s approach to higher education …
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ECOWAS: Dialogue, not sanctions, as recipe for regional stability
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) seems certain to evolve into a different entity following the sad disintegration development involving three of its members who have once again …
Read More »Speedy justice proposal of the Lagos State Government
The government initiative to accelerate adjudicatory dispute resolution in Lagos State is an ingenious precedent-setting strategy that aligns with global fair trial standards. The scheme is overdue, considering that the …
Read More »Arrest Turji, dismantle terror networks
NIGERIANS are living in fear. They are fleeing their homes in droves as the government appears to have abandoned them to the ruthless terrorists. The recent mass exodus from over …
Read More »Water abstraction: Lagos cannot profit from its failures
ON Christmas Eve, the Lagos State Water Regulatory Commission shut down three notable companies—Nigerian Bottling Company Plc, Guinness Nigeria Plc, and FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc—for allegedly violating water usage regulations. …
Read More »Decline of real sector performance and exit of firms
The decline in the country’s real sector performance as reported in the 2024 third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) publication of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) did not come as …
Read More »New federal varsity a misnomer
LIKE his predecessors, President Bola Tinubu is elevating illogic above scientific thinking in public tertiary education. Just like Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari before him, Tinubu has created a new …
Read More »Petrol pricing: Preventing unfair practices
JUST as the Yuletide approached, Dangote Refinery and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, through a third party, announced that they were slashing petrol prices. Dangote indicated that the gesture …
Read More »Minimum wage implementation as governors’ minimum assignment
As many governors remain reluctant to implement the new national minimum wage of N70,000, it has become imperative that they rethink, given the harsh economic situation Nigerians are going through. …
Read More »Tragedy of military’s accidental airstrikes
THE Nigerian Air Force, as a key arm of the Armed Forces, performs critical roles in counter-insurgency operations. However, in recent years, a troubling pattern has emerged: frequent accidental bombings …
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