.By Aremu Lukman Umor There was a time when the suspended chairman of the Economic andFinancial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, was a ‘Magun’ toNigerian looters and scammers. That’s a thunderbolt. Then, at themention of his name, politicians who had looted our commonwealth andstashed it in their coffers would be disturbed. He was tough andaudacious. […]
. As group petitions CP, urges audit of personnel A civil society organisation, Rule of Law And Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has petitioned the Imo state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Isaac Akinmoyede demanding urgent sanitisation of the command in line with professional best practices. RULAAC catalogued some of the most recent atrocious conducts of Police […]
.By Owolabi, Yusuf Olatunji 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION The implications of the outbreak of the pandemic, codenamed “COVID’19” to businesses all over the world cannot be overemphasized. Businesses world all over have been compelled to navigate the disruption birthed by the wind-like spread of the deadly virus such as inabilities to fulfill contractual obligations and the […]
Stakeholders, including child rights activists, sociologists, lawyers and clerics have identified the major factors behind the rising cases of incest in the country. Some of the stakeholders, who spoke with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) across the states, identified lack of traditional family values, moral decadence, broken homes, emotional imbalance, shift in family roles due […]
David Petraeus, the former American army general who served as the commander of the Central Command and later as director of the CIA, said that the killing of Qassem Suleimani was “more consequential” than the killing of Osama bin Laden or of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Economist writes that while few bemoaned the demise of the jihadist leaders […]
By Christoffer Heckman Robotics is rapidly being transformed by advances in artificial intelligence, and the benefits are widespread. But our ever-growing appetite for intelligent, autonomous machines poses a host of ethical challenges. Robotics is rapidly being transformed by advances in artificial intelligence. And the benefits are widespread: We are seeing safer vehicles with the ability to automatically […]
Often Nigerians are inundated with messages on their telephone sets and e-mails asking them to subscribe to goods and services. The recipients, especially public service workers, are encouraged to apply for loans from micro-credit outfits on very liberal conditions, including not providing securities for the facilities. Repayments for such loans, which can be obtained within […]
Last week, I reminded you, here, that Nigeria is a land of the absurd like no other. I might not get to the yardstick used in arriving at this, especially at this time that almost everything that works for a democratic process seems to have been thrown to the dogs in our country. And most […]
In spite yearly budgetary allocation to the health sector in Jigawa, especially for the upgrade of primary healthcare centres, many of the health facilities are in terrible state of decay. Statistics made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), by Mr Bayoro Kyamba, Director, Planning, Research and Statistics, Jigawa Ministry of Health, showed steady […]
In the last 50 months, Nigerians living in the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones of the country have been made to part with an estimated N306 billion at the more than 6900 military and police roadblocks scattered across the two regions. This is contained in a recent Special Research Report presented by a civil society […]
