Recently, the European Union (EU) raised alarm at the number of Nigerians illegally migrating to Europe. Available statistics show that Nigeria has the fifth highest number of citizens illegally migrating to Europe in the search for illusive greener pastures. More harrowing is the fact that
Editorial
Last Wednesday, November 15,2016, Nigeria lost a foremost author, industrialist and former chairman of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi to the cold hands of death. According to the family, Gbadamosi died from a stroke he suffered in April this year. An economist, Rasheed shot to limelight, when, at 29, […]
Recently, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on a one week warning strike. According to the union, the strike is sequel to the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement and the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the union and the Federal Government. Under the ‘Payment of fractions of staff entitlements’, ASUU said, “The […]
Recently, the Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola called for Public Private Partnership (PPP) in financing projects and providing infrastructure in the power sector. Speaking at the opening of a two-day European Union (EU)-Nigeria business forum in Lagos, the minister listed areas of investment to include distribution companies needing capital for
Two days ago, November 14,2016, the international community marked the World Diabetes Day. The has been set aside to mark the birthday of Fredrick Banting who together with Charles Best and John James Richard Macleod first conceived the idea, which led to the discovery of Insulin in 1922. World Diabetes Day was launched in 1991 […]
The rash of building collapse in the country has become something of national embarrassment. No month either passes without the sad news of buildings at construction stages or even completed collapsing in one part of the country or another. Incidentally, the construction workers or occupants become victims of such tragedies. Much as the incidences of […]
In the bid to decongest Nigeria’s overflowing prisons, the Senate recently called on President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors to exercise their prerogatives of mercy to inmates whose detention are unlawful and those who have been in detention for periods longer than they would have served if convicted for the alleged offence. The Red Chamber […]
Recently, the United Nations (UN) lambasted Nigeria for the continued production of illicit narcotics and psychotropic drugs in the country. A report by International Narcotics Control Board, an agency of the UN, stated that three illegal laboratories manufacturing methamphetamine were dismantled in May 2015 bringing to 10 the total number of such laboratories closed in
Recently, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) lamented the fate of more than 1.5 million children forced out of school by Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria. According to UNICEF, the number of children missing their education due to the insurgency adds to the estimated 12 million children of primary school age already out of […]
Three days ago, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the immediate investigation into alleged sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps. His orders came on the heels of a damning report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). It would be recalled that in July this year, HRW documented alleged sexual […]
Recently, Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote called attention to rising unemployment and poverty among Nigerians. In fact, he lamented that more than 100 million Nigerians out of a population of 187 million are wallowing in poverty. Addressing participants at the Executive Course No. 38,2016 at the National Institute for Policy & Strategic Studies (NIPPS) […]
Last Monday, October 24,2016 the international community marked the World Polio Day in commemoration of the birth of Dr. Jonas Salk, who led the first team of doctors to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Being a highly infectious disease caused by a virus, polio invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a […]
Recently, the Bank of Industry (BOI) set aside N2billion Graduate Entrepreneurship Fund (GEF) for graduates in need of securing loan facility for their businesses. The scheme, which is being implemented with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), will identify the innate talents of young graduates to enable them build capacities for self-reliance and create jobs […]
Recently, 150 countries gathered in Kigali, capital of Rwanda to ratify the ban on Hydrofluorocarbon(HFC) gases,which scientists found to be causing the destruction of ozone that protects people and animals from the dangerous impacts of ultraviolet radiation. It was the concern over a growing hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctica that forced the […]
Recently, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111, called on the Federal Government to prosecute Fulani herdsmen engaging in destructive and other violent acts in the course of grazing their livestock. The Sultan, who branded such herdsmen as criminals, said their activities were not only repugnant; they do not represent the religious or […]
The rate at which kidnappings occur in Nigeria is becoming something of a national embarrassment. No day passes without the sad news of persons kidnapped in gruesome circumstances. Today, any body, including students and children, considered worthy of attracting a ransom is a potential victim. As result of this, many Nigerians are becoming victims of […]
It is painful to watch the continuing nonchalant attitudes of both the federal and state governments in giving requisite recognition to the place of polytechnic education in the country. Regrettably, this attitude is responsible for the continued ignorance on the place of polytechnic education to the overall technological development of Nigeria. For long, experts and […]
In his acclaimed publication ‘The Trouble with Nigeria’ published in 1983, the late Chinua Achebe pointed out that the ‘ the trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership’. Thirty-three years on this is still true. Nigeria is a very difficult country: if not the most difficult in the world to govern. […]
As the international community continues to watch in utter horror and consternation, there seem to be no let up in the growing number of child refugees across the world. Incidentally, the majority of these children have been rendered homeless or orphaned as result of wars, famines and other natural disasters. Only last August, the image […]
Aside the President’s address on Independence Day, I always look forward to the Platform, an annual public forum organised by Poju Oyemade, Pastor of Covenant Christian Centre in Lagos. It provides a stage for pacesetting Nigerians to give their perspective on the way forward for the country. This year’s speakers included Sam Adeyemi of Daystar […]
