Oyo-Ita: Delivering A 3-Year Strategic Plan For The Federal Civil Service
Recently, the Federal Government for the first time unveiled a rare programme aimed at consolidating the Federal Civil Service. It is the three-year Strategic...
FG, States, LGs Share N429bn in March 2017
A total of N429.127 billion has been distributed as federal allocation for the month of February 2017 to federal government, state governments and local...
Oil Exploration in the North: Matters Arising
At the start of 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari gave orders to the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru,...
Cleaning the MDAs through Forensic auditing
The Federal Government has ordered all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to prepare an inventory of all fixed assets held as at 31st December...
Thai Citizens Make a Bid for Peace
By Ibrahim Sheme
A watershed event that promises to lead to the cessation of sectarian violence in Thailand took place recently. It took place on...
Nigeria Amidst Impending Food Shortage
The incessant warnings about the possibility of Nigeria facing famine in the nearest future may have been taken with a pinch of salt by...
Can 2017 Budget End Recession?
The presidential prophecy on ending current economic recession before this year ends is quite reassuring. However, some antitheses have been put forward by Nigerians...
Rann Airstrike and Humanitarian Efforts
All through history, people have been displaced as a result of war, famine, earthquake, flood and other natural disasters. Instinctively, victims of such happenstance...
NNPC Refinery Loses 2billion Naira to Illegal Tappers
The Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited (KRPC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), loses an average of 2.2 billion naira...
Reforming the Nigerian Tax System
In developed and emerging economies of the world, taxation remains a veritable source of revenue for government to put in place necessary infrastructure and...
Dealing with the Menace of Sub-standard Tyres in Nigeria
All over the world, roads are prime infrastructural contributors to micro and macro-economic development of any nation. As a matter of fact, it is...
Nigeria’s Unending Power Conundrum
Right from Faggae local government in Kano state to Kaduna North, Zaria local government in Kaduna, to many local governments in Lagos state and...
DANA Airlines Provides 50% Discount for MDAs
The Federal Government has signed an Agreement with Dana Airlines to give 50 per cent discount on official air travel tickets to Federal Ministries,...
N5,000 Social Intervention, Matters Arising
As part of the Social Investment Programmes (SIP) promised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government to cushion the high level of poverty...
Abuja Airport Closure and its Implications
The recent announcement by the minister of state for aviation, Hadi Sirika that the Nnamdi Azikiwe airpot will be closed for six weeks has...
Examining Buhari’s Agriculture Policy
Agriculture is the mainstay of mankind, therefore wise nations all over the globe give it a priority by developing and exploiting this sector for...
Revisiting Ajaokuta Steel Plant Revival
The federal government of Nigeria has set aside over four billion naira for the resuscitation of the Ajaokuta Steel Company. The total sum of...
Economy: Are We On The Right Track?
There is no doubt that the last one year has been tough economically in Nigeria due to the dwindling economy triggered by hyperinflation, rising...
What Next after Suspending Hike in Data tariff?
As the Nigerian populace continue to groan under excruciating economic conditions and the heavy burden of high rate of inflation and cost of living...
Maximizing Renewable Energy in the Power Sector
Nigeria is endowed with oil and natural resources but the country cannot be said to have ever had adequate supply of electricity in the...
