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By Olusola Daniel   Over the past few days, I have read and listened to various discussions about the state of the Nigerian economy, and it is disheartening to see some supposed opinion leaders feeding the public with half-truths or blatant lies all in a bid to achieve their sinister objectives. One would expect an issue as crucial as this to be taken with all seriousness rather than being used as an opportunity to score political points while launching ill-advised missiles at well-meaning public servants. Like King Solomon said in the Holy Writ, sensible people foresee trouble and hide from it, but gullible people go ahead and suffer the consequence.

By  Issachar Odion I am no economist. Then again, neither are a whole lot of the people who have written or spoken in recent times on the economic issues prevalent in our nation today. We are, however, stakeholders; after all, it is our country. We live here, earn a living here; our children attend schools here and what have you. Even those of us who are not resident in the country have family members who are, and probably some investment or the other here. So, we are all stakeholders. Since the first alarm was sounded on the falling prices of crude oil, many of us have been following the news ardently, silently hoping for a reprieve of some sort. It has been several weeks since the first news broke, and though several actions and reactions have taken place since then, the narrative of the general populace has not changed; we are still in the ‘finger pointing’ phase. Two points arise from this phase which require that we take a look at the facts before us critically rat...

Muhammed Dasuki In order to find a lasting solution to cases of terrorism and insurgencies in Nigeria, The office of National Security Adviser (NSA) has rolled out Soft Approach to Countering Terrorism in the Nation especially the North-eastern part of the country which is most affected by the Boko Haram insurgency. The National Security Adviser Muhammed Dasuki during the public presentation of the “Soft Approach to countering Terrorism” in Abuja said that the federal government in collaboration with state governments have designed an economic revitalisation programme targeted at reviing the economic potentials of the states currently affected by the Boko Haram insurgency. Dasuki who said the approach which will be in four phases noted that this will definitely bring a lasting solution to the cases of insurgencies in the North as the economic revitalisation will be the fourth and final phase. In his words, “what we have learnt is that there is not one particular path tha...

Good  and quality Education  is one of the major Rights of  citizens of any country and a major obligation of any government. For this to be achieved, stakeholders and the Government of Any country  is expected to take seriously all that has to do with Education from funding the sector to formulation and implementation of policies that will bring about a meaningful development of the human resources of that country. It was in the Light of these that The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) recommended that 26 percent of the Total Budgetary Allocation of a developing country should be channelled or dedicated to Education so as to make adequate provisions for all aspect of it in terms of proper funding and provision of the basic infrastructure for learning and impacting  knowledge. Nigeria the most populous Black nation in the World is Blessed with  brilliant and talented citizens that are making use...