AS the dust settles on the August hunger and #EndBadGovernance protests, it is plausible to clinically appraise the country-wide demonstrations to avert the recurrence of the no-victory, all-vanquished outcome the …
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The misplaced priority of state creation agitations
The quest for the creation of one more state in the South East geo-political zone in the country signposts the highly politicised craving of Nigerians not just for development but …
Read More »Good governance at state level can eliminate poverty
As Nigerians tackle the Federal Government over bad governance, as witnessed during the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria nationwide protests, they neglect, fail, or refuse to equally address the same issues at the state …
Read More »Mpox outbreak calls for strategic measures
BARELY 24 hours after the World Health Organisation declared the mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) surge in Africa as a global public health emergency, health authorities in Nigeria have been …
Read More »Autonomy for councils is call to service
Following the financial autonomy granted to local councils by the Supreme Court, all eyes are now on the councils to act as fulcrum of development in the country. The post …
Read More »Nationwide protests: Nigerians have spoken, govt should listen – Part 2
The security personnel, particularly the police officers trained to handle civil unrest, failed to exhibit professional ingenuity in their handling of the situation in some places. One of the eminent …
Read More »Nigeria’s undeclared fuel subsidy conundrum
THE last word on subsidies has not been heard after former President Olusegun Obasanjo declared recently in a viral interview that the petrol subsidy abolished by President Bola Tinubu in …
Read More »Ondo, Edo, come out to vote
AS the off-cycle elections in Edo and Ondo states beckon, registered citizens in the states should troop out to vote for their chosen candidates without undue pressures or ‘stomach infrastructure’ …
Read More »Nationwide protests: Nigerians have spoken, govt should listen
Nigerians who trooped to the streets in protest against hunger and hardship have spoken. Their message to those in the corridors of power is clear that there is discontent in …
Read More »Taming the brewing tension in the Middle East
Just as the world heaves a sigh of relief over the Iran-Israeli confrontation, a consequence of the Israeli war on Gaza, the ante of the seething Israeli-Palestine crisis was upped …
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