2016 July
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The Roles Of Teachers In Dwindling Education
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
No Comments.In the last two months, I have been writing on the falling standard of education in Nigeria, its causes and effects. Specifically, I have looked at the role of parents and the place of curriculum in this regard. But as from this week, I will be writing on teachers and their employers and how they
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The Constitutionality of Death Penalty: Need to Amend the Law
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Law
“NELSON MANDELA would have been hanged in 1964 but for the discretionary power of the judge to substitute imprisonment” The death penalty is as old as mankind itself. For thousands of years, it has been applied, as confirmed by the major religious texts, as the ultimate penalty or punishment for crimes as varied as adultery, stealing,
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SANUSI’S CALL FOR FURTHER DELVAUATION:
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
A REQUEST BUHARI MUST REJECT Further devaluation will inflict irreparable damage on Nigerians and every sector of the economy as well as the collapse of education and the middle class Recently I commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his decision to put a halt to further devaluation of the naira. I discussed the effects
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The decline in quality education in nigeria (2) The role of parents in a child’s education.
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
Last week, I wrote about the misconception of the true role of education which in large measure has resulted in the decline in quality of education in Nigeria. I stated among others that the purpose
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ILLEGAL UNIVERSITIES ON THE INCREASE
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
ILLEGAL UNIVERSITIES ON THE INCREASE “Amend NUC Law to empower closure and forfeiture of illegal institutions and impose life jail for their proprietors”. I have over the past weeks focused on the reasons for the advent of Private Universities and why despite the challenges being faced by them, the portrayal of these schools, in the
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JUDGMENT DEBTS: INEQUALITY OF GOVERNMENT AND THE CITIZEN BEFORE TEH LAW
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“It is a result of this that I wish to draw attention, at this most auspicious of moments to the golden principle of law which should guard governance at all levels of our society, which is the principle of ‘Equality Before the Law’ ”. In less than 24 hours from now, Nigeria will witness yet
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BUDGET TRANSPARENCY AS A MEANS OF CURBING MISAPPROPRIATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS: THE EKITI EXAMPLE
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“It is heart-warming that the 2015 Nigerian States budget transparency survey report declared Ekiti State as the most transparent state in Nigeria. When in 1996, I prepared and defended the memorandum for the creation of Ekiti State before Mbanefo Panel, I was asked, what qualified Ekiti for a state. Part of my answer was the
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PROPOSED REINTRODUCTION OF TOLL GATES ON FEDERAL ROADS (1)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Afe on Thursday, Funding
PROPOSED REINTRODUCTION OF TOLL GATES ON FEDERAL ROADS (1) “On a particular occasion, I instructed some of my lawyers to observe the volume of traffic from three points on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway over a 24 hour period. The volume of vehicular traffic observed and the expected revenue from these was mind blowing”. Recently the Federal
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PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM: THE CAUSE OF NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS – ABOLITION OF ONE OF THE TWO CHAMBERS (3)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“Approximately half of the world’s sovereign states are presently unicameral, including both the most populous (the People’s Republic of China). With the adoption of unicameral legislation the waste which has for long been associated with maintenance of political structures in Nigeria will reduce drastically”. Two weeks ago, I started an examination of
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THE ROLES OF TEACHERS IN DWINDLING EDUCATION (4) Teachers And Time Management
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
“No other irreplaceable resource has been wasted in Nigeria, like the resource of time. The capital lost by Nigeria to illegal oil bunkering, gas flaring, oil spillages and other oil related environmental degradation put together cannot equal 10 percent of the capital it loses due to lack of proper time management by its working class”.