Tag: Dakuku Peterside
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Soot and our collective conscience [2] – By Dakuku Peterside
Soot and our collective conscience [2] – By Dakuku Peterside
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Happy 51st birthday to a trailblazer, Dr Dakuku Peterside – By Emmanuel Ajibulu
Happy 51st birthday to a trailblazer, Dr Dakuku Peterside – By Emmanuel Ajibulu
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Dakuku queries Wike’s claims of N16bn expenditure on law school
Dakuku queries Wike’s claims of N16bn expenditure on law school
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Power begins with Voter registration – Dakuku Peterside
By Dakuku Peterside It is a cliche to refer to youths as “future leaders of Nigeria”, ignoring the fact that they have a role to play now in the leadership of this country. Some youths are even wired to wait endlessly for a tomorrow that may never come. Little wonder we see an unprecedented level…
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Transcending the lean times – Dakuku Peterside
By Dakuku Peterside Criticism makes leaders wake up, and it puts them on their toes. It is a natural component of leadership. We all acknowledge that it is always easier to criticise than to appreciate; hence Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers and a political philosopher, has this to say,”any fool can criticise,…
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Zulumnomics, Civil service and Nigeria’s Economic revival, By Dakuku Peterside
By Dakuku Peterside Nigeria is a country where there is a chasm between the leaders and the led. The distrust of the ordinary Nigerian for political office holders is such that most Nigerians celebrate when their leaders encounter tragic situations. If the governor takes ill in some states, a substantial proportion of the electorate…
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Rise of politics, fall of reason, By Dakuku Peterside
By Dakuku Peterside In a constitutional democracy, politics is the only legitimate route to governance. And the primary role of government is to provide security, the legal and social framework for economic enterprise, provide public goods and services, social welfare and maintain law and order. Politics is synonymous with competition. And the competitors…
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Herdsmen and the Security Challenge – Dakuku Peterside
By Dakuku Peterside In the South West ,Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho has recently been in the news. The self-styled Yoruba activist gained popularity (or notoriety) recently in the country after he led an attack against a Fulani community leader in Oyo whom he accused of harbouring Fulani herders engaging in criminal…
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Peterside Tasks New Service Chiefs’ To Justify Appointment By Buhari
The immediate past Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside has commended President Muhammadu Buhari over the appointment of new service chiefs. This is just as he has tasked them to justify the confidence reposed in them by the president in ensuring that there is synergy in the…
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Covid-19 reloaded – Dakuku Peterside
By Dakuku Peterside That Nigeria currently battles with a second, more deadly wave of Covid-19 is no longer in doubt. The numbers are dire. In the first week of January, the country had about 10,000 positive tests reported in just seven days obviously linked to the festivities . One in every six persons (16 per…