Has Nigeria’s indigenous industrialisation policy failed?
By Moshood Oshunfurewa This symptom has fully emerged. Nigeria’s indigenous industrialisation policy has failed. This failure is not the product of any single policy misstep but the systematic collapse of a six-decade-old structural architecture. This is a consequence of energy costs that devour manufacturing margins, foreign exchange controls that choke off access to production inputs, […]
TETFund in the days of COVID-19
By Emmanuel Aziken IT was unarguably a statement of satisfaction from Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, of the new kick that Nigerian universities were getting towards scaling up research and development as a way of actualising the country’s development needs. Speaking in an interview with Thisday, the ASUU president […]
Ize-Iyamu: A two-in-one product for Edo
The offer is mouth-watering and irresistible. And it is in plain sight: no ambiguity or sophistry. Aside from his accretion of qualities, the practical and well-thought-out promises to salvage the state from the doldrums with the ‘SIMPLE Agenda’, there is so much more why Edo people are eager to vote for Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the September 19 gubernatorial election.
HOW NIGERIA IS KILLING HER OWN AGENCY: A case of NIPOST, FIRS and NASS
By Femifola Durosomo, The raging imbroglio between the Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST, and the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, on the issue of stamp duty is quite alarming. It is a typical example of how a government can sacrifice one of its own agencies to build another. The position of the National Assembly who supposes […]
Pay Attention to Details
People who do not pay attention to details are reactionary by nature. They only realize that things have gone wrong when the people under them begin to down tools in protest.
Face masks @N20,000: The President must hear this!
CIVIC Hive, a nongovernmental organisation, NGO, recently opened a can of worms by accusing the Federal Ministry of Health of engaging in hanky-panky business with regards to recent purchases of Personal Protective Equipment, PPE.
