Giving ex-prisoners another chance
The appeal by rehabilitated female ex-inmates for society to reject stigma is a timely reminder that punishment should not become a life sentence after release. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) itself now has a statutory mandate to reform, rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders, while its programmes include education, vocational training and income generation through farms and […]
Tackling the Almajiri menace
THE Presidency has been issuing conflicting signals on exactly what it intends to do with the Almajiri education system which ends up breeding child beggars, especially in the Muslim-dominated areas of Northern Nigeria.
FG must pay whistle-blowers
The answer may not be far-fetched: the Federal Government is defaulting in its promise to pay whistle-blowers. The policy had promised to pay within 30 days of the receipt of a recovered fund a “flat and definite reward of two and half per cent of the recovered sum” which must be N5bn and above.
Nigeria’s IAAF $135,000 scandal
IN May 2017, the International Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF, mistakenly remitted $150, 000 in the process of paying $15, 000 to the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, being its financial obligations to all member federations. Upon the discovery of the error a few days later, IAAF requested Nigeria to refund $135, 000.
The Federal Cabinet we need
AS President Muhammadu Buhari prepares to unfold his ministerial nominees for onward transmission to the Senate for screening and possible approval it should not surprise anyone that it is generating keen interest among Nigerians.
Corruptive party nomination fees
IT would seem that heavy criticism of the major political parties for their prohibitive cost of nomination forms for elective offices have fallen on deaf ears.
