Without doubts, the Nigerian security apparatchik is recording tremendous success in its efforts to root out insurgency in different parts of the country, especially the north east. True to its promise, the Joint Military Taskforce (JTF) has continued to launch offensive against criminal elements and terrorism in the country.
Is poverty the ultimate reward for pension contributors?
Our collective sense of compassion seems to have become so dulled to media reports and photographs of emaciated senior citizens collapsing after waiting endlessly in queues under the hot tropical sun, for verification of their identity or eventual payment of pension entitlements from government agencies responsible for disbursement! In reality, the victims of such oppression have no ethnic or religious colouration, but they are all leveled by the evident common index of social deprivation, while the rest of us shut our eyes at the gross abuse of the dignity of aged men and women, who served their country for most of their lives.
Jonathan, 2015 and threats by fire-spitting militants
At the presidential level, Goodluck Jonathan has taken the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Office on three occasions — first as the vice-president, as the acting president and again as the substantive president. These pledges were taken, not as a sectional or ethnic leader, but as a national leader. But in recent times, particularly within some Ijaw enclaves, many act as if Jonathan is the President of the Ijaw ethnic group.
NEXIM BANK: REPOSITIONING FOR NIGERIAN NON-OIL EXPORTS
In recent decades, export competitiveness in the era of globalization has been at the heart of domestic economic growth and development debates. Against the background of growing disparity in income between the developed and the developing world, due largely to divergence in industrial capacity, the central question has always been: what can and should be done in developing countries to boost export growth and diversification, and enhance competitiveness in international markets?
On The Matter Of Ongoing Universities’ Strike In Nigeria
Dabbling into ASUU-Federal Government negotiations matters as I intend to do in this short piece is always “risky business” because of very many hardened positions over time, and due to fundamental lack of trust on all sides. However, with what is at stake in human capital and socio-economic development of the country when it comes to tertiary education – and education in general – it is worth the risk.