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Workers Day: The Anambra Perspective
By Tobenna Iloghalu
Ever wondered why most official working hours are between 8AM and 4PM every weekday and some weekends? Perhaps like many others you believed it was one of the many…
Challenges of youth unemployment and full scale economic decentralisation
By Polycarp Onwubiko
President Muhammadu Buhari speaking during his visit to Britain alluded to the fact that the youths in Nigeria idle away looking for free this and free that from…
Peace Corps of Nigeria and executive-legislative tango
By Polycarp Onwubiko
A former Nigerian Ambassador, Dr. Dickson A. O. Akoh, had initiated what he would like Nigerians to believe as youth empowerment programme named “Peace Corps of…
Inadequate facilities, over-crowded classrooms in Nigerian tertiary institutions
There has been very noticeable increase in the ratio of students per classroom in Nigerian tertiary institutions of recent. This has, largely, been without any corresponding improvement in…
Declining reading culture and the social media conundrum
Following the habitual increase in the use of social media by students across different educational levels in Nigeria and with the attendant call by various stakeholders to re-awaken the…
The Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance, wither Nigerian presidents?
By Polycarp Onwubiko
The announcement that former Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had won the highly coveted Mo Ibrahim prize for presidents in African triggered trepidation and…
Buhari’s second term bid and the APC change dilemma
President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration to contest the 2019 presidential election is still generating negative reactions in many quarters across Nigeria following increasing frustrations…
Oil rises to $68.65 as stock market rebounds
Oil prices rose more than two per cent on Monday, supported by a rebound in the stock market as trade war between the United States and China eased.
Brent crude futures rose to settle…
UN launches global network of judges to strengthen integrity in courts
The UN on Monday launched an initiative to connect judges around the world so that they can learn from each other about ways to strengthen integrity in courts.
UN Deputy…
Scourge of epidemics : Accessibility and affordability of healthcare delivery
Polycarp Onwubiko
To say that one of the basic needs of man is robust health is stating the obvious. People clamour for accessibility and affordability of healthcare which entails…
Nigerian graduates’ overly dependence on certificates
Nigeria’s education system curriculum is planned in such a way that most of its products depend so much on the certificates issued, without fathoming out the best means to make ends meet,…
Ugwuagba Obosi motor parts and the untapped Igbo technological wizardry
By Polycarp Onwubiko
A man whose rickety Volvo car always drags him to a reputable Volvo mechanic, Baba Yaro and out of exasperation suggested that he would dump the car as he has…
FOR THE RECORDS; BILL GATES’S FULL SPEECH AT NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL
Your Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Senator Bukola Saraki, Senate…
Streamlining policies on food production and cattle pasteurisation in Nigeria
By Polycarp Onwubiko
Lamentations across the country on the infrastructure deficit in the education sector traversing primary, secondary and tertiary institutions stem from the increasing…
Nigerian women rated poorly in entrepreneurship – Report
By Chibisi Ohakah, Abuja
Mastercard has revealed that women in Nigeria own only 17.8% of all the businesses in the country, whereas in Ghana, women own 46.4% of businesses there. In its…