Category: Opinion

Service Delivery through Trust Funds By Bola Bakare

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In today’s fast-paced world, effective service delivery is crucial for governments to meet the evolving needs of their citizens. To bridge the gap between resources and requirements, trust funds have emerged as a vital tool for collaborative governance. By pooling resources and expertise, trust funds can enhance service delivery, foster transparency, and ensure accountability. Trust funds are designed to support specific development initiatives, addressing critical gaps in service delivery. They mobilize resources by leveraging funding from diverse sources, including governments, international organizations, and private sector entities. They foster collaboration by…

Flood Management: Concepts and Strategies By Bola Bakare

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Floods and its accompanies like landslides, burst dams and other unforeseen occurrences beyond human imagination are the aftermath of human degradation of the planet, human inhumanity to mankind and gross carelessness that graduated to recklessness. The powers that be from the civilized world bestowed on us the disasters we witness presently. The global warming anomaly is created by the unguided ozone layer degradation from carbon emissions in the name of capitalistic productivity for the sole purpose of money making without a care for global human existence. Africa as a whole…

Admission Scare: Minimum Age, Maximum Rage,By Mike Ozekhome SAN

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The Context And Contradictions Of Nigeria’s Minimum Age Policy For University Admission Let me today discuss an issue that is at once emotive as it is controversial: minimum age to enroll into a tertiary institution. My dissertation is therefore, understandably lengthy. I will try my best to explore them.   Education is for the well-being of every person regardless of age. It is a continuum and a necessity in this fast developing society of ours. Education is of two types. There is the formal education which is structured and regulated…

How Yahaya Bello’s resistance of Naira Redesign, Youth mobilization aided President Tinubu’s victory in 2023 By Evergreen Okogene.

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    It’s no longer news that the former Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello have been having running battle with the Economic and Financial Crime Commission(EFCC) under the president Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s administration since the later assumed office.   He was accused of diverting Kogi state money in 2015, almost Six months before he became Governor of the state. When this narration failed, the EFCC sought for an amendment just to get at their target. He was declared wanted and labeled a criminal even before his trial, even when…

Couple’s Therapy: Pleasant Words by Babalola Alao

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Pleasant words between spouse is another life hood of romantic relationship. According to the holy books pleasant words are as an honey comb, sweet to the souls and health to the bones.   Marital union, in modern world now requires a lot of verbal communications, between couples. Providing living expenses like housing, clothing, food, utility bills and maintenance is not the sole responsibility of a man and raising the child is not the sole responsibility of a woman. In the 21st century partners need to engage in verbal communications from…

In the Matter of Dangote Refinery vs NNPC – Simon Kolawole

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The Dangote Petroleum Refinery was supposed to be the final solution to Nigeria’s energy needs. What went wrong? Why the brouhaha? Why the anti-climax? I have been observing developments from my balcony — beyond what I have been seeing in the papers, watching on TV, hearing on radio and reading on social media. I could see two major camps in the pandemonium — one painting the picture of a conspiracy to sabotage the refinery so that the “cabals” can continue to feed fat on the nation; the other casting Dangote…

Monday Lines We beg bread, they belch beer By Lasisi Olagunju

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Are Nigerians hungry because they’ve been drinking too much free beer and now the brewery is bankrupt? I ask because President Bola Ahmed Tinubu waxed rhetorical Thursday last week as he dissected the very bad hunger wracking his country and its more than 200 million people. “I understand we are hungry, but no free beer parlour anymore,” he said. Except the president is suggesting that we are a nation of drunkards, I am tempted to wonder what shred of meaning connects “hunger” and “beer” here.   What the president said…

Serious People Are Not Complainers! By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful   All praise is due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. May His blessings and benedictions be upon the Messenger, his household and companions.   Dear brothers and sisters! Please let’s ask ourselves an important question, is complaining an effective strategy for solving our problems? Will complaining improve our situation? Do others enjoy listening to us complain? The answer to all three questions is NO. Then why do people always complain?   There are a number of reasons…

I think Tinubu was right By Festus Adedayo

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One by one, three Nigerian former military rulers, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, arrived at Babangida’s Hilltop Mansion in Minna, Niger State, last Sunday. So did former National Security Adviser (NSA), General Aliyu Gusau. The Minna meeting had every trapping of African witches assembling at the coven. Like owls, a pervasive symbol of African witchcraft, did they fly to and perch on their Minna assembly nest at nocturne? Yoruba attribute the kind of powers this trio had/have to witches. They eat the head from the arm and…

Maiwada: The Big Man and his PR Strides at Customs, by Hassan Gimba

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In a crowd, Chief Superintendent of Customs (CSC) Abdullahi Aliyu Maiwada stands out—a towering figure whose presence commands attention. Tall and huge, he embodies a blend of formidable stature and gentle demeanour, demonstrating that one can be intimidating yet approachable.   What captivates me most is how this gentle giant has seamlessly taken the reins of the service’s public relations from a lineage of exceptional officers. His challenge was substantial: following in the footsteps of remarkable PR managers like Alhaji Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, the current Comptroller General of the Nigerian…