Why Nigeria doesn’t need more training programmes but better employment systems
By SAM DAIBO Nigeria has become a nation of training programmes. Every week, somewhere across the country, another graduation ceremony celebrates young people completing courses in coding, welding, agribusiness, fashion design, renewable energy or entrepreneurship. Governments launch new empowerment schemes. Development partners fund fresh skills initiatives. Companies proudly invest in youth capacity-building. Yet millions of […]
Alcoholic beverages: Excise duty rates hike and looming job loss
IN March, the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun announced on behalf of the Federal Government that new excise duty rates have been approved for alcoholic beverages and tobacco with effect from June 4, 2018.
Policemen behaving badly: The cases of IGP Idris and Chairman Magu – Reno
By now you must have watched the embarrassing video of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotum Idris, giving a speech somewhere in Kano. If you have not watched it, then do yourself a favour and please watch it. You can thank me later. Or not.
All gloves off for PMB
On Wednesday, May 9, 2018, some ex-leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who joined the coalition that gave birth to the All Progressives Congress (APC), issued a seven-day ultimatum to the leadership of the APC to convene a meeting to address alleged marginalization and unfair treatment of their group in the appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB).
RE: AVIATION MINISTER AGAIN IN UNCHARTED FLIGHT PATH
Your newspaper at page 10, on Saturday, May 5, 2018 carried an aticle with the above title. The article was by Chris Aligbe. The author was full of praise for the methodical manner in which the Minister, Senator Hadi Sirika, a trained pilot, was tackling the augean task of reinventing the aviation industry in Nigeria.
Murder at the bedrooms
In the past one month, the bedrooms seemed to have become fearful places to harbor the blissful seeds of dreams and be freed from the world which we all struggle to escape from its extremities. Sleep in comfort of our beds offers us so much return to innocence.
