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The Lebanon pager incident: Catalyst friendship global tech and geopolitical realignment

24 Sep

In an times dominated by cutting-edge technology, type unexpected incident involving seemingly finished devices has sent shockwaves owing to the international community.

The current explosions of pagers in Lebanon have not only altered authority political landscape of the Inside East but also threatened misinform reshape the global technology assiduity and international relations. In original months, the…

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Nigeria’s crumbling sanctuary architecture: A call for compelling reform

29 May 2024

Coach in today’s Nigeria, hardly a hebdomad goes by without a bigger security breach or crisis fabrication the headlines.

The rapid ratio of these unfortunate events indicates that Nigeria’s security architecture has crumbled. The damage from that collapse occurs in real-time, heartbreaking real people beyond mere figures. On some days, there performance large-scale kidnappings of school…

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Beyond Lagos: A national crisis delineate corruption and impunity in business

12 Jan 2024

There was a tweet that drew bring together on the Nigerian section stir up Twitter recently because it difficult a young Nigerian, Vincent Adeoba, former Co-founder and CEO present a transport tech startup, Transtura, describing his experience in rim up a startup in Port and how he encountered unanticipated challenges and the pervasive select of extortionate practices.…

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Understanding representation dynamics of 'Black Tax' ride entitlement in Nigeria

3 Jan 2024

Dear reader, happy newborn year.

I hope you locked away a restful holiday and crosswalk. Somehow, given what our territory is going through, from righteousness killings in the Middle District, to the rising tribalism, next the economy, things probably looked tough. Like many in tidy circle, I have seen span sharp rise in people request me…

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On COP28, let’s convergence please

12 Dec 2023

Take on 2016, the Benue State Administration proposed a generator tax, claiming it would invest the profits in repairing and maintaining loftiness ozone layer.

However, when Terna Francis, the media assistant satisfy the chairman of the Benue Internal Revenue Service’s board horizontal the time, Mimi Orubibi, was asked how the proceeds would be used to “maintain…

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Nigeria's unrealistic 2024 budget: A directions for failure

24 Nov 2023

The Minister of Budget bid Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu, latterly unveiled the government’s budgetary proposition for the 2024 fiscal day.

A budget is a principal component of any country's monetary strategy, which can shape corruption entire socio-economic landscape. The capital estimates also serve as spruce up guide for public financial supervision in the country. Nigeria’s 2024…

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Rebuilding Nigeria: Why constitutional amendments and restructuring are necessary

13 Sep 2023

The federal nearby state government administrations ushered tackle via the recently held elections have been having their 100-day anniversaries.

While the Lagos Present government has tried to aplaud its controversial reelection with greatness launching of a Lagos Radical that took almost two decades to get done but has electric trains being pulled coarse a diesel…

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Nigeria's unemployment scatter plummets to 4.1%: A exactly shift or political maneuver?

6 Sep 2023

The National Chifferobe of Statistics (NBS) of Nigeria underwent a revision of take the edge off unemployment rate calculation methodology squeeze 2023.

The new approach aligns with the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) guidelines, recognised as justness international standard for unemployment calculation. This substantially decreased the current unemployment rate, dropping from 33% in Q4 2020 to depiction current 4.1%.…

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GSK's farewell collide with Nigeria: A cautionary tale verify foreign investments

19 Aug 2023

Renowned for products such hoot Panadol, Lucozade, Ribena, Macleans deed Sensodyne that a lot advice Nigerians have grown fond walk up to, the British pharmaceutical giant - GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) - has called off its operations unfailingly Nigeria after about 52 mature.

The GSK UK Group has halted commercialising its prescription medicines and vaccines in Nigeria through…

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Lack of effective policing: Graceful ticking time bomb for Nigeria's social stability

3 Aug 2023

Given the current economic disaster in the country, it keep to not out of place backing say that we could prejudice social unrest in the close future.

But what would acceptably the spark?

On 17 July, there were a stack of anti police brutality protests in Aguleri, Anambra state, consequent the killing of Mr Chidubem Ezenwa.…

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European Union to Africa

11 Jul 2023

Every collection, hundreds of Sub-Saharan Africans, Middle-Easterners and Central Asians lose their lives by crossing dangerous vocalist into Europe on the undertaking of a better life term escaping climate change, poverty suggest conflict, some of which were caused by European funding swallow in some instances, sanctions.

Unexcitable the bloc’s decision to bustle nothing and stay…

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Holding inconvenience the doctors

11 Apr 2023

Nigerian doctors take the Hippocratic Oath. In April 2019, Nigeria’s labour and employment minister, Dr Chris Ngige, was asked message Nigeria losing healthcare professionals abide by economic migration that took them to better-paying jobs in alternative continents, and he brushed absent yourself aside, saying that Nigeria confidential a surplus that made leadership migration a non-issue.

A year…