Evaluating economic policy choices to refocus economy
THE global coronavirus, otherwise called COVID-19, has elicited severe economic disruptions in the world. In an attempt to mitigate the economic impact...
Esimone’s one year in saddle: UNIZIK guns for excellence (II)
INFORMATION Communication Technology (ICT): The university's internet bandwidth has been significantly increased with internet 3-STM-1, thus increasing internet accessibility in the Awka...
Imperative of resetting Nigeria’s tottering economy
THE global coronavirus pandemic, otherwise known as COVID-19, has slammed severe economic devastation in all the countries of the world. Nigeria which...
Esimone’s one year in saddle: UNIZIK guns for excellence (II)
INFORMATION Communication Technology (ICT): The university's internet bandwidth has been significantly increased with internet 3-STM-1, thus increasing internet accessibility in the Awka...
Unrealistic suggestion for economic recovery after COVID-19
AT page 22 of Daily Sun, May 18,2020, an economist, Sotonye Anga suggested that Nigeria can feed Africa if government pumps funds...
Fallouts from financial autonomy for judiciary and legislature
IN the Sunday Nation of June 7, 2020, page 5, the fallouts of granting financial independence to the legislature and judiciary have...
Farmers, herders clash or militia herdsmen?
IT is curious how some media take pleasure in painting words to play down on very devastating national issues to sound 'politically...
Private schools as complementary to government’s service
IN ANAMBRA State, private schools have been recognised as contributing a great deal in filling the yawning gap left by the state...
Traditional rulership and Igbo republicanism
HISTORY and developments revealed that Igbo race has from time immemorial, never been comfortable with literally worshipping human personage. In the hoary...
UNIZIK and executive programme on migration studies
IT IS exhilarating to observe that Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) is living up to billings of the one of the Nigeria's intellectual...
Banishment of Sanusi and triumph of modernism
IT is sad that Africans, in spite of the western education which remains a civilizing influence on humanity, take ready resort to...
Foreign loans and generational debt overhang
THERE is a saying that it amounts to a height of naivety to be doing the same thing fruitlessly while expecting different...
Umeh: foibles of the electorate
ENLIGHTENED Anambra people seriously lament the absence of
Chief Victor Umeh in the Senate as he was by legal abracadabra edged out from
the...
Sanusi: Kano’s macabre dance
THE 'father' of bombastic English language manufacturer in
Nigeria, Patrick Obahiagbon, former Member of House of Representatives, had
described the shenanigan going on in...
UNIZIK’s trail-blazing trajectory and five-point strategy
NNAMDI Azikiwe University , Awka, Anambra State is
remarkable not only by the personage named after the blossoming institution of
higher learning but also...
Community policing and multi-pronged insecurity
TO say that the ever-escalating pervasive insecurity all
over Nigeria has reached crises point is merely stating the obvious. Nigerians
have been suffocating under...
New visa policy 2020, issues, challenges
NIGERIANS have been ill at ease at the habit of President
Muhammadu Buhari making far-reaching and controversial public policies in
far-away countries. They are...
National Productivity Day and diversification of economy
EVERY year, Nigeria joins other countries of the world to
celebrate National Productivity Day . The theme of 2019 NPD was
Productivity, National Re-Engineering,...
Global standard electoral operation, a desideratum
DEMOCRACY cannot be said to be complete without free and
fair elections. That is an elecion whereby eligible voters in a state have
unfettered...
Commendable skill acquisition programmes
NIGERIA aligned with the world to mark 'International Day
for Eradication of Poverty' on October 17.
According to...
Lockdowns, curfews vital to break Germany’s third wave Merkel
GERMAN Chancellor, Angela Merkel has urged lawmakers to approve new powers that would allow her to force coronavirus lockdowns and curfews on...
China ready to step up climate change cooperation with France, Germany
CHINA is willing to strengthen cooperation with France and Germany to cope with climate change, President Xi Jinping has told his French...
Food prices soar in West Africa amid conflicts, COVID-19 – WFP
ACCORDING to World Food Programme (WFP), food prices in West Africa have jumped more than 30% since last year to their highest...
AstraZeneca vaccine: Australia reports first blood clot death
AUSTRALIA has today reported its first fatality from blood clots in a recipient of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot, and its regulator said there...
Lightening kills eight-yr-old pupil in Bayelsa
AN EIGHT-year-old student of Matha Day Secondary School, Imiringi, in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Master Stephen Akana, has been...
