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National insecurity, the economy and Nigeria’s challenge with corruption should dominate the conversation surrounding the nation’s 2015 elections but they have been sideshows to the trivialities that have risen to the fore over the last few weeks. The presidential election …
Continue readingA few days ago most Malawians were shocked to read the latest World Bank ranking that Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa. Personally I wasn’t surprised because that’s the way it is supposed to be according to …
Continue readingStomach infrastructure has come to stay for now, we cannot do much about it until around the year 2023 when I hope our poverty rate would have reduced to less than 20 per cent of the population. Having said that, …
Continue readingIn an op-ed by Gulfnews.com dated the 1 of February 2015, African leaders teamed up in Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia in a bid to seek for solutions for an independent African Union (AU). After a two-day summit which …
Continue readingDr. Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran in this paper “Borderless ECOWAS: Dream and Reality – Exploring The Cost of Trade Barriers in West Africa” looks at the realities that constitute barriers to trade and free movement of goods and people …
Continue readingPeople talk about how this government has lost the media war; they often do not tell us why this is the case. It has always been the job of the media to be critical of the government of the day …
Continue readingI have followed the otherwise diabolical incident at Langa’ta primary school, where the Kenyan state instead of providing security for its children, reneged on that important part of the social contract and turned predator, devoured its children without mercy. That …
Continue readingThe two major presidential candidates would not be contesting if these elections were about Nigeria’s best public speakers. Public speaking is not their major strength but that is not the point of a debate.
Debating the issues and being seen …
Continue readingIt was Thomas Jefferson, a founding father and third president of the United States, who gave popularity to the thought that “all men are created equal” when he said in his 1776 Declaration of Independence speech “We hold these truths …
Continue readingAfrica’s unemployment rate is on the rise. Most employees, both in the public and private sectors, are not satisfied with what their jobs are paying them. As a result, protests and strikes are becoming the norm of the day.
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