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STILL ON PRISON INMATES

THERE is a problem with the criminal justice system in Nigeria. And it is time the judiciary took the bull by the horns by initiating necessary and pragmatic reforms to fix the problem. The following statistics reeled off recently by the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Prison Service, Mr. Olusola Ogundipe, perhaps, captures the enormity of the

 

N1.7BN UBEC/MDG PROJECT

AT one of its recent deliberations, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) was reported to have approved the sum of 1.7 billion naira for the printing and distribution of English language, mathematics and activity based science books to primary six pupils in public schools nationwide. The project is to be funded by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) under

   

THE ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY

SINCE the beginning of the Fourth Re-public of Nigeria in 1999, certain pain-ful features of the democratic experience make the citizenry wonder if at all the clamour for democracy was worth it. First among these features is the emergence of a rapacious political class who in its tenure as

   

THE IMPENDING TEACHERS’ STRIKE

THE news of a planned nationwide strike by teachers came with the surprise of the sudden rippling of the still water of a lake. The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Mr Emeka Wogu, was reported as

   

JONATHAN: THE POWER SECTOR ROAD MAP

On Thursday, August 26, 2010, President Goodluck Jonathan unveiled his administration’s strategies to eliminate power outages in Nigeria by December, 2012. The contract with Nigerians for stable

   

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