Our legislators’ jumbo pay: Fact or fiction
The salaries of Nigerian legislators at federal and state levels have been a source of controversy largely based on the ambiguity with which the issue has been handled.
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Watch Vanguard Conference Hall on ‘Our legislators’ jumbo pay: Fact or fiction’
The Vanguard Conference Hall to be moderated by Emmanuel Aziken, will be an opportunity to bring focus to the issue of the entitlement of Nigerian legislators whether it is the standard or a scandal.
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Hate Speech: What is your comment about govt monitoring social media?
The panel at the Vanguard Conference Hall yesterday propounded various reasons for the rise in Hate Speech in national discourse. Today, the panel discusses proposals by government to monitor Hate Speech in social media and concludes with propositions on how the spate of hate speeches can be curbed.
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Hate Speech: Minding your language in today’s Nigeria
The freedom of expression is guaranteed in the Nigerian constitution. That right guarantees every Nigerian to speak his mind on issues. However, for a nation like Nigeria where different tongues and tribes were weaved to form a delicate country, an expression in one tongue can sometimes be interpreted to be an offence in another language.
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Vanguard Conference Hall on Hate Speech live today
The freedom of expression is guaranteed in the Nigerian constitution.
That right guarantees every Nigerian to speak his mind on issues.
However, for a nation like Nigeria where different tongues and tribes were weaved to form a delicate country, an expression in one tongue can sometimes be interpreted to be an offence in another language.
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Restructuring: What is it? ‘Give a good system to bad managers; they will run it aground’
What have we been able to establish with oil money? Virtually nothing! If you establish today, you can’t maintain. They are not interested in the maintenance; they are interested in what they are going to put in the pocket. They put 10 percent in the development and the rest into the pocket unlike before the war, when politicians stole 10 percent and put the rest into development.
Read More Restructuring: What is it? In the days of Biafra, there was creativity.
Moderator: You say Nigeria cannot establish a refinery, but what do you say of what the authorities have described as illegal refineries and in the time of the civil war we also had Ogbinigwe bombs?
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Restructuring: What is it?
T he political space in Nigeria has lately been energised by calls for restructuring of the polity with political and non political actors speaking in dissonance on the issue.
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Watch Vanguard Conference Hall live on Restructuring: What is it?
The calls for restructuring and resistance to same from different sides of the polity have lately agitated the polity. Agitators for the restructuring of the polity have over time championed their cause using various channels albeit with limited success.
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Military rule gave North unfair advantages
YEsterday we published the first part of this Conference Hall on the demand by Northern delegates to the National Conference for the reduction of the 13 percent on derivation to 5 per cent. In this continuation, the participants state their positions.
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