Nigeria’s absent middle class: A threat to democracy
THE significant disparities between rich and poor in Nigeria no longer invite much comment or analysis: poverty, despite political rhetoric, is more or less accepted as the capitalist norm and many have been content to watch the middle class gradually disappear, squeezed into in-existence by systemic corruption and economic inefficiency. Interestingly, in other West African countries which haven’t had the Nigerian experience of military rule (Senegal and Ivory Coast, for example), the middle class lives a life that only few could dream of in Nigeria. It isn’t strange in such countries to find individuals buying yoghuts, meats and hams which in Nigeria are reserved for a small elite.
Unemployment: NDE begins training of 6,200 youths, women in Ebonyi
THE National Directorate of Employment, NDE, in Ebonyi State, weekend, stated that it has put modalities in place for the training of 6,200 unemployed graduates and non-graduates across the three senatorial zones of the state.
21 people, including pregnant woman die, 20 injured in Ondo, Oyo
It was a black New Year Eve for some families in Ondo and Oyo states as 21 people reportedly lost their lives in auto crashes, kidnapping and armed robbery, while many sustained various degrees of injuries.
OPEC Cuts to Test the Strength of Tanker Market Recovery
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia agreed to cut oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day during their 5th meeting held on December 7 in Vienna.
How Igbo Day was celebrated in Owerri
Never in the history of this country has Ndigbo been so marginalised, denied their fundamental human rights and traumatised
Controversy over police killing of suspected robber
BENIN-CITY—CONTROVERSY is trailing the New Year killing of a middle-aged man around Oba Ovonramwen Square, popularly called Ring Road in Benin City, Edo State by policemen believed to be attached to the Oba Market police station.
