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Victor C. Ariole The economy must be structured in a way that it must help the society and the human resource therein to develop themselves, and, in turn, they should help in developing, further, the...
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Alhassan Mamman Muhammad Some Western countries are painting the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as an isolated country without any development, describing it as “the most isolated and closed...
View ArticleOf presidential acquaintanceship and thumbs up for Wike
Femi Olufunmilade As a political scientist intent on impacting governance positively in Nigeria, conscious of the enormous powers acumulated for the President of Nigeria, courtesy of successive...
View ArticleUzodinma’s 100 days and the imperative of people’s support
Raxy E. Ekwebelam The current administration in Imo State under Senator Hope Uzodinma recently marked its 100 days in office. There have been efforts by supporters or opponents to express their views...
View ArticleCan states survive current gloomy outlook?
There’s a state of high anxiety across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory as the Federation Account continues to fall. It feeds on what lies ahead, beginning next month....
View ArticleAs development agency empowers communities in Anambra
Ejike Anyaduba It may not be public knowledge, but the Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency- Additional Financing (CSDP-AF), one of the World Bank assisted projects in the state, has...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and the e-learning our tertiary institutions need (1)
Ayobami Salami Before COVID-19 spread its destructive tentacles to Nigeria, four major issues had dominated most discussions on our tertiary education. These were access, content, quality and...
View ArticleCOVID-19: No time for complacency!
Salihu Tanko Yakasai In late December 2019, an epidemic broke out in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, with devastating consequences to the lives of the people and the economy of the country....
View ArticleDeath of justice nabaruma and other matters
Fred Chukwulobe Chief Judge of Yobe State, Justice Garba Musa Nabaruma, is dead. That is no longer news. The news is that he was the chairman of the election tribunal in Anambra State, which ruled that...
View Article2023: Will Atiku take another shot at the presidency?
Mohammed Ibn Kachalla Quietly, there seems to be some political re-alignments and strategizing going on by some politicians angling to contest the 2023 presidential election. While it is an open...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and the e-learning our tertiary institutions need (2)
Ayobami Salami The hard and software needed must be put in place even if government has to go for facilities such as loans to achieve such. Online education may take some resources now, but the beauty...
View ArticleDid China deceive the world about Covid-19?
In the last six months, the world had been in battle with the scourge of Covid-19. Going back in time, when the world first became aware of Corona Virus in December 2019, it was thought the outbreak...
View ArticleIPPIS: What exactly is ASUU afraid of?
My views about the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) changed after I bumped into, and read, an article published on an online platform, www.statesman.ng, titled “ASUU is the problem of...
View ArticleHow Akwa Ibom sustains as Nigeria’s cleanest state
Aniekan Ukpong A clean and safe environment is essential in promoting good health, conducting businesses and creating wealth. In realisation of this fact, governments at all levels and in different...
View ArticleCOVID-19: 250,000 jobs at stake in creative industry
The creative industry in Nigeria is, perhaps, the least considered when the nation’s economy is analyzed, with so much focus given to oil and gas, finance, manufacturing, telecommunications,...
View ArticleInternational Day for biological diversity
Bellarmine Nneji Over 2000 years ago, the conservationist, E.O. Wilson raised a serious alarm that the earth is losing its biological diversities. He then admonished that ‘unless we move quickly to...
View ArticleHistory, COVID-19 and the future
Samuel Oluwole Ogundele Outbreaks of infectious diseases involving the remotest ancestors of humanity, happened during the early stone age period. These ancient ancestors were christened...
View ArticleDapo Abiodun: Scaling the hurdles
Yekini Alli When exactly a year ago Prince Dapo Abiodun was sworn in as the fifth elected governor of Ogun State, the stakes were mountain high. The Iperu-born business mogul and long-standing...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Lessons for Nigeria
Blessings Duru Following the outbreak of the dreaded coronavirus, the world is practically grounded, almost everything and everyone is at a standstill. Medical personnel world over are now sought after...
View ArticleEFCC: Magu and futile efforts to unseat him
Timothy Badmus Afolabi To say that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft crusade is bearing fruits and closing all apertures of corruption and sending chill shivers into the spine of corrupt elements...
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