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 […]
Jega’s hollow ritual
FOR a country where crookedness and cheating in public life has become a norm, Nigerians are busy passing off Professor Attahiru Jega’s hollow ritual as a great success and a testimonial of credibility and integrity in conducting national and state elections, where virtually all the elements of fraud that have characterised general elections in Nigeria since independence, were present and in no diminishing order.
South East and Jonathan’s presidency
BUT for post-election crises which engulfed most parts of Northern Nigeria, the April elections were free, fair, credible and peaceful. Nigeria has once again demonstrated her capacity to do things right when inclined. The election has set at naught the sham that was the 2007 election.
As Customs Service nurtures economic growth
LATELY, fresh winds of positive change seem to be blowing through the rank and file of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS. A new orientation seems to be taking place in the entire operations of the Service.
Why Buhari lost
THE violence in the North is not surprising. That half of our society is perpetually on tinderbox; the result of widespread poverty coupled with mass illiteracy and, in too many cases, religious fanaticism.
Illiterates in our own language
A PEOPLE’S language is part of their identity. If a people lose their language, they have practically lost themselves.
The English language is supposed to be our second language but now, it has become our first language.
