LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY VERSUS HUMAN CAPITAL CHALLENGE. Local government, in Nigeria, is viewed as the third tiers of government. It is a constitutional creation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with the intentions well spelt out in 1976 Local Government Reforms initiated by the Federal Government of Nigeria as well as subsequent constitutional reforms ….
THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE The role of technology in combating climate change is both pivotal and transformative, offering innovative solutions to one of the most pressing challenges of our time. As part of my effort to build a better world for all, I firmly believe that technological advancements are essential…
The Joe Biden I saw yesterday was not the same Biden I know and respect. I got so pissed off and disillusioned and depressed that I turned off my tv and went to bed feeling miserable and deflated because I once wrote an article wondering why Biden is going to choose to debate a serial…
FRAMEWORK AND CONTEXT OF NWGF SUMMIT MEETING IN KATSINA: What must be done! Introduction. The two days meeting of the North-West Peace and Security Summit in Katsina has brought to fore the need to revive traditional mechanism to arrest insecurity and its attendant Wahala. The meeting of the Nigeria Governors Forum was to work cooperatively…
INSECURITY: NSA, Service Chiefs’ Collaboration Yielding Positive Results Security of lives and property is one of the major responsibilities of government the world over. Any government that is found wanting to secure the territorial integrity and the lives of its citizens has failed its statutory responsibility. Nigeria, just like some other countries in the world,…
The Minimum Wage conundrum and impending maximum trouble I was just going through the social media being my usual practice in the evening after my Mogreeb prayer before Ishai and I stumbled on a post from a septuagenarian, a retired Federal Civil Servant. The post read; Even 500,000 Naira as minimum wage can not…
Pensioners’ Lives Matter: A Call for Urgent Reforms. This article was first published on the 20th of November 2023. With the recent happenings in the country and the recent call for increase in salary of civil servants, one would expect that the TUC and NLC leadership would mention the retirees in their request for wage…
The Minimum Wage hullabaloo; ‘Monkey de work Baboon de chop’ The idea of increase in labour wages all over the world is always as a result of hardship due to either inflation or economic down turn. My first Salary at West African Examination Council WAEC, Yaba in the year 1980 as WASC A level holder…
Judge Juan Merchan -A cut above the rest in presiding over the Trump Trial. Dominican American Immigrant Judge Juan Merchan is in my opinion the perfect choice to preside over the Hosh Money Trial of arguably the worst criminal defendant in American Jurisprudence. With a less experienced, less disciplined, less fair and less impeccable temperament,…
Something has fundamentally gone wrong with America with Donald Trump as President for 4 years. Something is fundamentally wrong and evil with the Grand Old Party which is now putting their Party above Country while defending racial segregation and discrimination and Christian Nationalism and a blanket immunity for their nominee to commit crimes and to…
