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Year: 2019
Politics
El-Rufai Wrong On South Developing While North Is Backward By Babafemi Ojodu
BY BABAFEMI OJUDU I love reading my friend Mallam El-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State. You may not always agree with him. You may not like his style. Some even think he talks too much. […]
Health
Why Doctors Are Leaving Nigeria and How The Problem Can Be Fixed By Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi
Brain drain is a major challenge facing the Nigerian health system, leading to a dramatic reduction in the number of doctors in the country. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Nigeria is […]
Sport
Tanzania Terminate Emmanuel Amuneke’s Contract
Emmanuel Amuneke, Nigerian former footballer, has been relieved of his job as the head coach of Tanzania national team by mutual consent. The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) confirmed this in a statement on their official […]
Issues/Policy
Ruga Is Private Business and So What? By Mahmud Jega
The queerest, most illogical, most mind-numbing argument I heard during the recent national furore over Ruga [the Federal Ministry of Agriculture’s Rural Grazing Area program] was that government has no business investing in cattle ranching […]
Government
I’ll Fix Refineries, End Fuel Import By 2023 & Kyari, new GMD NNPC By Michael Eboh
The new Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, yesterday, promised to fix the country’s four refineries before the end of May 2023. Speaking at the valedictory session for the […]
Government
I Personally Transmitted Election Results To INEC Server Using a Code, Says
One of the Presiding Officers during the February 23 presidential election, Mr Adejuyitan Olalekan has told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that he personally transmitted the results collated at his polling unit during the poll […]
Issues/Policy
RUGA and The Obasanjo Connection
The UN World Habitat Forum was held in Vancouver, Canada in 1976. A principal outcome of the conference was a resolve that governments should as much as possible provide land for citizens to build homes. […]
News
Gani Adams: Yoruba Won’t Forgive Governors Who Adopt Ruga
Gani Adams, aare ona kakanfo of Yorubaland, says that the Yoruba tribe will not forgive governors that adopt Ruga settlement, a scheme initially proposed by the federal government to tackle crisis between farmers and herdsmen. […]
Issues/Policy
Concept of Simulation And Its Relevance By Ogunyinka Sunday
Many efforts of researchers worldwide had gone into ways of seeking design guidelines that include high –precision quantitative and qualitative analysis using simulation in solving wide range of human problems in different fields of human […]
Issues/Policy
Drug Abuse and The Circle of Casualties By Jerome-Mario Utomi
I have for a very long time lived with a notion that views drug abuse-related conversations as not just a familiar music hall act but a dangerous fiction erroneously directed to non drug abusers. But […]
Issues/Policy
Ruga and Other Matters: A Conversation By Hope Eghagha
Musa: What is the whole noise about ‘Ruga’ fa? Emeka: You call it noise eh? This noise shall soon consume the nation and roast all of us if we don’t handle the matter with the […]
Editorial
Cancel This Ruga Threat Now! | Guardian (NG)
The public outrage, which followed the Federal Government’s plan to surreptitiously seize lands from constituent parts of the Nigerian nation to feed the business drive of Fulani herdsmen, has been quite instructive in intergroup relations. […]
Education
The Role of School’s Management On Children By Simon Abah
Teaching children should be a social service, a humanitarian venture and not business but it appears to be a business in Nigeria. There aren’t school farms anymore; hardly do you see schools with sports ground […]
Issues/Policy
Waiting For The Next Earthquake! By Kole Omotoso
Over decades and over centuries countries in the Southeast Asia of the world are virtually immune to earthquakes. Unlike newly exposed places earthquakes are nothing to bother those Asian countries. The same thing can be […]
Issues/Policy
RugaWatch: Buhari’s Presidency and Perception Management | Guardian (NG)
I was in the nation’s capital, my organic beat the other day where the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu did what most public officers, especially in the eye of […]
Editorial
Guardian (NG): Insecurity And Foreign Investors’ Response
The persistent issue of insecurity in Nigeria has been fingered as a major reason behind foreign investors pulling out their investments from the country. According to a recent report, over N1.77 trillion foreign investments have […]
Business
NBC Apologises Over Recall of Contaminated Eva Bottled Water
The Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) has apologised following the inconveniences the recall of the contaminated Eva bottled water might have caused consumers. The National Agency for Food, Drugs and Administration Control (NAFDAC) had directed the […]
Politics
Buhari, You May Mean Well, But Time Is Running Out By Fredrick Nwabufo
One flaw that detracts from President Buhari’s strengths is tardiness; especially, his dilatory response to matters of importance. This is where an appreciable weakness of the president lies. And most times, the response or actions […]
Security
How My Missing Phone Landed Me In Trouble With The Army — Lance Cpl Mayowa By Ugochukwu Alaribe
A soldier serving in the Nigerian Army, Lance Corporal Adeniyi Mayowa, has lamented how his phone, which went missing during an operation in Aba, Abia State, landed him in trouble with the Army authorities. Mayowa, […]