Category: Features
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Between 50MW and 4000MW electricity for 200m citizens after 6 decades?
The news of the continued collapse of Nigeria’s power grid no longer shock citizens. They have adjusted to life, having realised they need to do all they can to provide means necessary for their productivity. This is not peculiar to electricity; security, social infrastructure, and other means also suffer. It is a pitiable situation for…
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‘This is America, not Nigeria’: So what? – By Lexzy Ochibejivwie
There is nothing wrong with pursuing the right cause. But pursuing the right cause in the wrong way is wrong. Whether in the US or wherever else in the world, there is really nothing wrong that cannot be solved with what is right. Last Sunday, I stumbled onto a viral video on Facebook. The content…
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Why capacity building in digital skills is important for professionals in Africa
Capacity building is the improvement in an individual’s or organization’s facility to produce, perform or deploy. According to the United Nation, Capacity building is the process of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities processes and resources that organization and communities need to survive, adapt and thrive in a fast-changing world. Skill development and training…
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Osun 2022 and INEC performance: Is Nigerian democracy turning the corner?
Democracies, globally, have faced various phases of evolution. Ours has been a toddlers’ crawl from 1999 when the present republic began. It is more disturbing that Nigeria seem to face several unnecessary election challenges in an era where technological innovations capable of uplifting our process abound. I am probably one of the harshest critics of…
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Re: Lagos State’s Abortion Guidelines (LSAG) – By Jerry Okwuosa
In their rejoinder to Sonnie Ekwowusi’s article on the Lagos State’s Abortion Guidelines recently published in your esteemed paper, the Nigerian Feminist Forum (FNN) set out to deliberately misinform the Lagos State government and Nigerians on the legality of abortion in Nigeria. Yes, there were indeed several spirited efforts to legalize abortion in Nigeria under…
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Isoken, the force of a city – By Nkanu Egbe
Benin City was the workspace of a little girl who was born to a medical doctor – Dr. Efemwenkeankean Yellow Igbinigie and his wife – Enegbegbana Stella Igbinigie, a market trader. Workspace, because at a very tender age, soon after the death of her father, when her mother had to work to raise money to…
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Analysis: Unending reign of terror in Nigeria: Where is next?
Insecurity in Nigeria has reached an alarming proportion, manifesting in the form of banditry, kidnapping, mass shootings and political violence, forcing many in the country to now live in the throes of fear as ransoms paid since this year have already exceeded N1 billion. The country’s North-central and Northwest regions continue to experience communal militia…
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Book: Nigeria Drivers of Digital Prosperity – A Review
In the emerging world economies, powerful nations classify the following sub-heads such as ‘Information’, ‘Technology’, ‘Telecommunications’, and ‘Computing’ among others as the nucleus of the new power configurations. Whoever wants to be something and anything in the global arena must basically give attention to computing skills, data analysis, robotics, cybersecurity, programming, business development and sales,…
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RE: Legalization of abortion in Lagos State by Sonnie Ekwowusi
Letter to the Editor: On Lagos State’s new abortion guidelines In an article published by The News Guru entitled Legalization of abortion in Lagos State, author Sonnie Ekwowusi urges Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to “withdraw the abortion directives” in the recently-released Lagos State Guidelines on Safe Termination of Pregnancy for Legal Indications. He argues…
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Gov Bello begins fight back against ‘Judases’ in Kogi, Assembly speaker’s name goes missing from INEC list of 2023 NASS candidates
First, the speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Hon Matthew Kolawole, who has used every occasion to eulogize the person of Governor Yahaya Bello goes missing from the list of dignitaries who welcomed Governor Yahaya Bello back to the state after a long time absence to pursue his unsuccessful presidential ambition. Then on Monday,…