Category: Opinion

NBC: Resetting The Pace of Professional Broadcasting In Nigeria, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.

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The National Broadcasting Commission NBC is the regulatory agency of all broadcast stations operating in Nigeria, the roles it had played over time with successful leadership of the commission in recent times. In the course of carrying out its regulatory roles both on local and foreign broadcast organisations, it took cognisance of the legal framework guiding the operations in line with the NBC code in Nigeria. These ranges from professional misdemeanours of both staffers and the broadcast medium operating in Nigeria. Both the previous and current leadership of the commission…

Culture and Customer Experience In Nigeria By Aliyu ilias

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We are all subjected to seeing things from our own perception which is a subject of our geographical location, exposure and what is obtainable in our society, we can also go further to adhere to local legislation as it relates to goods and services around us. We believed every good and service must have passed through the expected regulatory agencies and it ok for our consumption   Nigeria’s culture has a lot of impact on our behaviours toward goods and services according to Nigeria mystery shoppers provider Abuja, through advertisement…

Ilé ò gbàá, ònà ò gbàá By Lasisi Olagunju 

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“I did not mention it to you. The lady that was among the trio recently freed from the Kaduna train hostage attack is my sister-in-law. She was released after payment of (a huge) ransom…She spent about 80 days with the demons. Look at her picture again; you will see something very dead in her eyes.”   The person who sent the above message to me put a figure to the ransom paid and he said it was not in naira. I dare not mention the amount and the currency of…

Tobi Amusan, Ozuah and history behind the N1.14b vehicles for Niger By Festus Adedayo 

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To understand the profligacy, indiscretion and misplaced priority in the purchase of N1.14 billion ($2.7 million) –worth of 10 luxury vehicles by the Muhammadu Buhari government for neighbouring Niger Republic, ostensibly to shore up that country’s security, at a time when there is excruciating hunger in the land and terrorists are probably a mile away from the Aso Villa seat of government, you have to go way back to the year 1972 or so, to the reply of the late president of Niger Republic, Ahmadu Diori, when asked why Niger…

UBEC; Setting The Pace Through Enumeration of Schools Post COVID, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF

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The Universal Basic Education Commission UBEC is a body charged statutorily with the management of public primary and junior secondary schools, as well as the regulatory roles and curriculum development of private schools in that category in Nigeria.   Inspite of its statutory roles , the need to be acquainted with the numbers of public and private schools in that category will no doubt ease the process of administration and regulations of its policies and programs.   Giving the constitutional roles, it behoves on the leadership of the agency under…

An agenda for national rebirth (1), by Hassan Gimba

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“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonourably, foolishly, viciously.” ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot Till the rivers run dry and the world ceases to exist, problems shall never end. Problems became part of man the moment he took a bite of that apple and was banished to earth to come and find the solution that would take him back. And so, seeking solutions to problems must be our eternal habit. However, just as Albert Einstein said, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved…

2023: Rally round Obi to rescue Nigeria — Support Group pleads ….. Berates Tinubu, Atiku for divisive utterances

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The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has called on Nigerians to shun the divisive utterances of the presidential candidates of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar respectively, and rally round the Labour Party candidate, Mr Peter Obi to rescue Nigeria from total collapse.   It said the APC, and PDP should be telling Nigerians how they would rescue the country from the path of precipice that it is heading, rather than polarizing the country along ethnic and religious fault lines with…

From COVID to Monkey Pox: Can Nigeria afford another epidemic, by Gift Luckson

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Barely 2 years after the world was put on hold because of the deadly coronavirus that disrupted the economical and social activities of many nations, claiming millions of lives worldwide, mankind is faced with yet another catastrophe, the monkeypox virus.   Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by a brick-shaped virus carrying a double-strand of DNA. The virus that causes monkeypox was first discovered at the end of the 1950s, but there are signs it has undergone changes in the past three to four years which has enabled it to…

THE DEATH WISH IN SAM OMATSEYE’S OBITUARY  By Law Mefor

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44An obituary is for the dead, not for the living. So, no matter how one looks at Sam Omatseye’s ‘Obi-tuary’ on Peter Obi and the movement his entry into the 2023 presidential race has become, it is all about a death wish. It rhymes with nothing else. Yes, death for the Peter Obi movement and possibly for its progenitor, Peter Obi himself is Omatseye’s underlying deep psychological wish. To clear the doubts, a death wish is a desire, often unconscious, for the death of another person, toward whom one has…

Capt Junaid Abdullahi; One Good Turn , Deserves Another At Border Communities, By ABUBAKAR YUSUF

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The re-appointment of a seasoned pilot, administrator and technocrat, Capt Junaid Abdullahi as the Executive Secretary/CEO for a second term in office, at the Border Communities Development Agency BCDA by President Muhammadu Buhari was not out of place. With the first appointment at the heat period of COVID-19, the performance of pilot turned administrator had been able to douse cynicisms and initial criticisms from mostly naysayers of his ability and capability to turn around the intervention agency, for the border communities in Nigeria, hitherto neglected for obvious reasons. Four years…