Tag: Governance
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Aregbesola: Governance as festival of the mass – By Owei Lakemfa
Witness to history. Animated discussions. Banters. Back slapping. Roaring laughter. Seeming riot, but orderly. Various groups, including the elderly and children. Then the crowds burst into songs and dances. They herald the arrival of the host. He is clad in white with a traditional white dog-eared cap. He flashes his white teeth, raising a two-finger…
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Leadership is difficult because governance is very stubborn – By Owei Lakemfa
TWO bills in the last two weeks, defined for me the President Muhammadu Buhari government including its state of mind, wellbeing, position on democracy and its so-called war on corruption. On Monday, December 20, 2021, it declined assent to the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment Bill on the basis – rather, excuse – that it contained…
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APC boasts of hitting 20 million membership strength in less than a decade, says Buhari sincere with governance
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has been sincere in its approach to
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Naturalness And Governance, By Abdu Rafiu
By Abdu Rafiu For thousands of years mankind have separated naturalness from their lives. The word naturalness sounds Greek in many a circle, whether in social, political, even in educational circles many would strain their ears and ask you to say that again. The nearest it gets seeming resonance is in science, even then it…
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Nigerian youths responsible for bad governance – Tunde Bakare
Pastor Tunde Bakare, the General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, on Saturday said some youths in their 20s and 30s are responsible for Nigeria’s current woes. Bakare said these youths once trusted with power messed up the system in Nigeria. He said the older generation of leaders are not responsible for the…
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Wither Home? Matters Arising – Chris Anyokwu
By Chris Anyokwu Have you ever heard the song: ‘East or West/Home is the best’? Although the short minuscule poem- song appears to scramble the iambic-dactylic metrical pattern the lyrical joyfulness, the mellifluousness of its rhyme scheme more than makes up for such niggling prosodic deviance: ‘west’ and ‘best’ intimate and bracingly approximate rest (read:…
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Hard times: Calls for Salary cut, low cost of governance should be directed at Executive – Reps
The House of Representatives on Thursday said that the calls for reduction of salaries of federal lawmakers and cost of governance were misdirected. It argued that since the Executive manages 99.902 percent of the national budget, the calls should be directed at that arm of government and not the National Assembly which receives a paltry…
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Governance without morality, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa LAGOS State Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, 55, a surveyor-turned-banker was wide awake and at his duty post when the COVID-19 pandemic broke. At that time, the Federal Government was dozing. Not a few praised him for helping to combat the pandemic and saving many lives. A few months down the…
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Nuts and bolts of governance, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa I AM surprised that organisations that want to be taken serious said they are surprised that the President Muhammadu Buhari government, in the midst of crushing poverty exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, announced the immediate increase of fuel litre from N121.52 to N143.80. I am surprised that they are surprised. I will…
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Governance is not based on personal relationships, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. In the last ten days, our country has been forced on its kneels by horrendous massacres such as the over 100 killed by bandits in Katsina, Sokoto and Plateau States and the steep rise in Covid-19 victims including the infection of dozens of health workers. Tragically, these have not been the…