Category: Editorial
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Sustaining the New Minimum Wage
As tensions over the new minimum wage subside, concerns about the burden of payment on federal, state, and local governments, as well as the organized private sector, remain. To meet the new wage bill and fund capital expenditures, states should explore ways to increase their internally generated revenue (IGR). Additionally, all levels of government should…
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As Tinubu And Dangote Dance Naked In The Marketplace.
The accusationis and counter accusations go thus:the Dangote Refinery has not been licensed to operate even as its completion remains around 45%. The quality of its products, especially, the pms is below regional standard, so says the Nigerian government. The government went further to imply that Dangote was angling for monopoly in the fuel market.The…
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BABACHIR LAWAL IS A BURDEN UNTO HIMSELF AND IN NEED OF COUNSELING
From Lateef Taiwo Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, emerged from his hibernation slinging incoherent aspersions on the person of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the exalted office he occupies. Reacting to the statement credited to the former Secretary to the Government of the…
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Between Kadafur, Betara and The War Mongers
By: Inuwa Bwala Trends in Nigerian politics show that disagreement between people who seek to control a particular political space is not an anathema. Examples abound of bitter quarrels amongst hitherto close political allies, at the end of which people often part ways. We have cases also where gladiators in political quarrels found ways…
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Between Gov Zulum, Security Agencies, the Terrorists and the mystery Attacks
By: Inuwa Bwala So many questions crossed my mind immediately on receiving the news of the second ambush on the convoy of Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum. Besides my personal worries for his safety and the likely triumph by the insurgents over his territory, I was confused as to what is really happening.…
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WIKE: THE EMERGING CHAMPION OF THE SOUTH SOUTH REGION
By Paulinus Nsirim Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, went to the ancient city of Benin, saw and faced the agents of a siege , conquered the godfather. But he was also quick to give credit to all those who joined him in the battle to accomplish the sweet victory and reclaim Edo State for the Peoples…
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As Chibok Girls ‘Resurrect’…
Like a script of a horror movie, the issue of the now lost Chibok girls has continued to play unending scenes with heightened tension being generated with each episode. The latest being the video posted on the girls where one of them solicited the government’s quick response to save them from the jaws of death.…
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Between Herdsmen And Boko Haram
Nobody knows exactly what their grudges are with communities, whether in the North, or Southern part of Nigeria. But everybody is worried by the increasing devastation by herdsmen. They have become synonymous with death and sorrow, the twin human calamity they visit on societies daily. Attacks by herdsmen have become one recurring negative index that…