In 2015, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, Member States agreed on a minimum educational funding benchmark of 4 to 6 per cent of the GDP, or 15 to 20 per cent of public expenditure. This is in recognition of the place of human capital development in the overall development of any nation. Unfortunately, […]

Too much money and other material resources are attached to political offices in Nigeria. This is the major reason contests to occupy the offices have become do-or-die battles, and political office holders in Nigeria prefer to die in office than resign like their counterparts in other countries, even after suffering damaging scandals or physical incapacitation.  It is […]

Politics apart, there is no other earthly reason for the continued stay of Alhaji Mohammed Bello Matawalle, President Bola Tinubu’s Minister of State for Defence, in office. Matawalle is the immediate past Governor of Zamfara, one of the poorest states in the federation. The minister shot into political prominence by sheer fluke. He was the governorship candidate […]

IN spite of the existence of numerous quality assurance federal agencies, Nigerian agricultural products continue to be rejected abroad, thus making nonsense of efforts to diversify our foreign currency earning capabilities. In May this year, one of the agencies responsible for promoting quality assurance for our agricultural exports, the National Agency for Food and Drugs […]

Nigeria had many plausible reasons for copying the presidential system of government that we practise from the United States of America. The framers of the 1979 constitution, which was essentially upgraded in 1999, saw the need to establish a stabler political system other than the British parliamentary system that is far more fluid. The second reason was […]