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 […]
The Man : Olorogun Michael Christopher Onajirhevbe Ibru
The people of Agbarha-Otor in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State wept. It was on a Tuesday and the day was 6th September when news filtered in that one of the first Urhobo billionaires and business titan, Olorogun Michael Christopher Onajirhevbe Ibru, OFR had passed on at the age of 85, less than four months to his 86th birthday at Maryland, United States of America, USA.
Kaduna tremor may occur again – Prof. Inyang
An expert and a Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science, Prof. Hilary Inyang , yesterday explained why there was tremor in Kaduna State and why it could occur again.
Re: Is FG’s speed limiter a scam that could dent Buhari’s anti-graft war?
In the publication authored by your Northern Region Editor, Soni Daniel, he set out to tag the speed limiting device initiative as a ploy to defraud Nigerian vehicle owners and on the same pedestal detoured with misrepresentation of facts bordering on the speed limiting device. We are therefore constrained to respond appropriately by putting the records straight.
IGP Idris and an improved Police Force
THE recent confirmation of acting Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, as the substantive police boss in Nigeria after the tenure of Solomon Arase, has given credence to the fact that a journey started well will end well. Prior to his confirmation, the compulsory retirement of twenty-one Assistant Inspectors -General of Police came later in time and gave rise to some public commentaries and or appeals that the officers who were seniors in appointment to Acting Inspector- General of police, should not be compulsorily retired in one fell swoop.
Change and the reconstruction of expectation
WORDS and their meanings scared us as children. We stayed away from the high-sounding ones and accused the English language of complex instability in the behaviour of words and rules – synonyms, antonyms, lexis and structures etc; a phenomenon that affected the fortunes of our school career in those growing up years. Generally, the words […]
