A tradomedical practitioner and business man based in Agbor, Chief Yomi Odunselu Hassan has warned that security in 2021 will be worse than 2020 if the Presidency did not take proactive steps or address the security challenges in the country, adding that with the Presidents body language, it is obvious …
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WORLD TEACHER’S DAY; EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
There was torrent of commendation and glowing tributes for teachers across the globe during this year’s World Teacher’s Day celebration, which had as theme “Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future”, held on Monday 5th October 2020, To shed light on the above, World Teachers’ Day which holds annually on …
Read More »EDO ELECTION TRIBUNAL AND LESSON FROM PROFESSOR IDIA IZE-IYAMU
If there is anything that presents as false the claim by politicians particularly in Nigeria that their motives are unsoiled by private ambitions, that all they wish is to serve the public and to pursue the ‘public good, it is their inconsiderate and unguarded declaration that they can achieve the …
Read More »DEMOCRACY, ELECTRICITY, A NATION’S ROMANCE WITH DARKNESS
The growth, prosperity and national security of any country says development practitioners are critically dependent upon the adequacy of its electricity supply. And, the link between electricity supply and economic development is such that the health of the industry is a matter of deep and personal concern to all citizens. …
Read More »UNEMPLOYMENT, AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
At a time Nigerian youths were waiting patiently for the Federal Government to offer sustainable road map for restoring the health and vitality of the nation’s democracy, the Federal Government on 30th June, 2020, through the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, announced the …
Read More »HILARY IBEGBULEM AND THE PEOPLE’S VERDICT
He is neither the first politician from Ika nation, nor in Delta North Senatorial zone to be favoured with a political appointment by the Delta state governor, Dr. (Senator) Ifeanyi Ekwueme Arthur Okowa, the first Anioma son to assume the governorship of the State after he was sworn in the …
Read More »NIGER DELTA CRISIS; NEITHER NDDC NOR NIGER DELTA MINISTRY
In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, a Public institution is an institution conducted with the approval, and from the funds of the public. While explaining that whenever such an institution ceases to have public support, it forfeits its right to exist, Gandhi observed that most institutions maintained on public funds …
Read More »REVISED 2020 BUDGET: EDUCATION AND OTHER CONCERNS
Adversity comes in many forms-acute, cyclical, long-term, and systemic. It sometimes affects individuals or single firms; other times it cuts across a wide swath of entities. However, its pathology is consistent: Adversity constrains a key resource, which then depresses demand, supply, or both. That gives rise to unmet needs and …
Read More »VIEWPOINT: LESSONS FROM SINGAPORE BY UTOMI
‘I was not optimistic about Africa. In less than 10 years after independence, Nigeria had had a coup and Ghana a failed coup. I thought their tribal loyalties were stronger than their sense of common nationhood. This was especially so in Nigeria, where there was a deep cleavage between the …
Read More »NIGER DELTA REGION IN A SEASON OF THREATS
Similar to history which has a way of repeating itself, the sudden wave of ultimatum issued to the Federal Government in a space of one week by two oil producing communities in Delta State, another by two Niger Delta region agitators should be to all a reality to worry about. These …
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