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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, […]
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NSITF Imbroglio: The Poverty of Leadership by NLC

Nothing suggests that the leadership of an organisation cannot make mistakes. Why would anyone expect a leader to be infallible? But what distinguishes nobility from charlatanism; maturity of mind from mediocrity is the ability to retrace one’s steps, the humility to apologise once a mistake has been unambiguously identified. As psychologists will tell you, rather than being a sign of weakness, humility is a sign of strength, that inner power that makes the purveyor stand erect even after eating humble pie.

Lai Mohammed, government image making and matters arising

On Nov. 11, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari swore Alhaji Lai Mohammed in as the Minister of Information and Culture to, among others, communicate government policies and programmes, build a positive image for the country and promote national consciousness.

Cross River State APC: A cry for sanity

The great English Philosopher John Locke in one of his philosophical outings opined that “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” Still alluding to the principles of learning from experience, the Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Gustar Jung cautioned: “a man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions, has never overcome them.”

NBS Report: Enugu’s high scorecard as validation for Ugwuanyi’s policies

In less than five months, three vital statistics that boldly affirm Enugu State’s steady rise as an economic powerhouse has emerged. A recent report issued by the National Bureau of Statistics listed Enugu as one of just six states in the country that recorded the highest net gains in full-time employment between the third quarter and second quarter of 2017 and 2018. The figure as released by NBS were as follows: Lagos (added 740,146 net full-time jobs); Rivers (235,438); IMO (197,147); Ondo (142,514); Enugu (122,333); and Kaduna (118,929).   

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