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(I started writing this article in March 2014, but for some unknown, warped reason, never completed it. I have now decided to finish it) “Nigerian leaders on Friday (28 February …

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, “The National Union of Road Transport Workers is a Nigerian organisation which functions as a mixture of a public transport company, street gang, and a …

The decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly rising costs of the different services and products that universities …

“There’s an evil in our land, And a foe we must withstand, Let us be strong to fight the wrong…” Jennie Evelyn Hussey. Nigeria has been given over to an …

The Greater London Authority Elections – where Londoners will vote for a new Mayor of London and Members of the London Assembly – is on 5th May 2016. Yet, I, …

The principle of autonomy and/or self-determination is viewed as foundational in any true democracy. It is however worrying when democracy becomes a millstone around the neck of those who are …

Let’s pass it on to our children. “The great and most powerful gift a parent can give their children is to pass to them their language and their culture…” We …

“With the downturn in the global prices of oil, we now have to prospect our solid minerals. We have to return to agriculture. Mining and agriculture are our hopes now. …

“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is appalling to know that Nigerians are now polarised into …

“I was actually in that valley on March 28, 2015. I did not want Nigeria to slide into a theatre of war, with his  fellow county men and woman dying, …

Poser: How many Hollywood movies have been made about the lives and achievements of Nigerians who have made one impact or the other on the world stage, with big name …

I have been musing over the conundrum above for a very long time, even before this new dispensation of the sincere and stern President Buhari, and I can’t get it …

This article has been written in sad response to two recent “employment advertisement” scandals that have involved (or, rather, been repudiated) by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment and …

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” This quote is attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who wrote extensively about the notion and importance of …

“Unemployment, underdevelopment and poverty everywhere in the land. Our people are living like animals; we cannot even rear our children” – Source Unknown. “Quite frankly, the war against Corruption is …

This is not an academic or professional article about what IGR or taxes are. We already know what they are and the role they play in governance in any country. …