Better deal for indigenous sailors
Nigeria cannot keep applauding its seafarers once a year and then abandoning them to harsh working realities at sea. The renewed call for better welfare is timely because, without sailors, there is no maritime trade, and without maritime trade, the wider economy suffers. The demand for improved welfare is driven by a few hard facts. […]
Preventing prolonged Labour impasse
The “doomsday” was long expected because the two parties to the labour dispute did not approach it with enough spirit of compromise. Organised Labour – the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Unions Congress, TUC – made good their threat to down tools following the failure to agree a new National Minimum Wage, NMW. […]
Tinubu’s students loan scheme
Like many of the programmes he initiated in the first year of his administration, President Bola Tinubu’s innovative Students Loan Scheme made its epileptic journey to reality with the signing of the executive bill, Students Loans (Access to Higher Education) Bill, 2024, into law in April. The Act is a great improvement of an earlier […]
Resumption of oil production in Ogoni land
As preparations towards the resumption of oil exploration and production in Ogoni land continue, the dark clouds are gathering once again, signifying that the leadership of the Ogoni people might not have learnt their lessons from the events that led to the devastation of their land and society nearly 30 years ago. Four prominent Ogoni […]
Tinubu’s first year
After eight years in power, former President Muhammadu Buhari left the country in shambles with the spectacular failure of his touted Three-Point Agenda – Security, Economy and Anti-corruption. He squandered trillions of Naira on the questionable implementation of a petrol subsidy regime. He abandoned the execution of subsidy removal to his successor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. […]
Rebuilding Okuama community
On May 8, 2024, the Nigerian Army, which had occupied Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State for almost two months, withdrew after receiving a signal “from above”. The Army invaded the community on March 14, 2024 after 17 of its officers and men “on a peace mission” were ambushed and gruesomely murdered. […]
