2016
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LESSONS FROM 2015 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS CONCEDING DEFEAT AT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: A HEROIC DECISION
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
No CommentsThe 2015 Presidential elections have been keenly contested, won and lost. As noted by local and international observers, this is the first time that a change would occur in federal government in Nigeria from the ruling party to the opposition through the means of an election. World over, an event like this is seen as
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JUSTICE: LOSS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE -LAWYERS ALONE NOT TO BLAME
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Law
JUSTICE: LOSS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE –LAWYERS ALONE NOT TO BLAME “Lawyers have for far too long been unfairly isolated as the sole cause of the delay in the prosecution of cases, there is just so little a Judge or indeed a lawyer can do in certain circumstances”. The judiciary in Nigeria has come under immense
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JUDGMENT DEBTS: INEQUALITY OF GOVERNMENT AND THE CITIZEN BEFORE THE LAW (2)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“Governments across the Federation have over the years, acting on the basis on anachronistic laws, have developed a practice of frustrating such successful litigants thereby acting in flagrant disregard of the principle of equality before the law”. Last week I started an examination of the concept of Equality before the law which I believe
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Death Penalty in Nigeria
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Law
(II) “NELSON MANDELA would have been hanged in 1964 but for the judge’s discretionary power to substitute imprisonment” Last week I began a
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The role of parents in a child’s education.
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
It is apposite to posit that in order to properly build up a child and make a total man/woman out of him/her, there is an absolute need for the cooperation between the home and the school. It is in appreciation of this dictum that the
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POST UTME AND ACCESS TO FUNCTIONAL AND QUALITATIVE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION; THE ANSWER (3)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
“I am aware that in choosing institutions, students and their parents take a lot of things into consideration such as proximity, cultural or traditional background, the status or reputation of the university and even religion and economic means”. In continuation of my examination of the controversy generated by the policy announced by the Joint
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JUSTICE: LOSS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE- LAWYERS ALONE NOT TO BLAME (5)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Law
JUSTICE: LOSS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE-LAWYERS ALONE NOT TO BLAME (5) “The poor remuneration paid to junior lawyers by senior lawyers have contributed to the problems encountered in the administration of justice”. A few days ago, President Buhari while on a visit to Kenya, again identified the judiciary as a major source of headache for him
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NATION NIGERIA: MANAGING DIVERSITY – THE BIAFRA ISSUE AND WAY OUT (1)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“At the heart of the current protests and agitations are the same questions which have for long plagued Nigeria and which have over the years resulted in one form of violence or the other”. Over the past couple of weeks several states in the East and in the South- South have witnessed protest marches involving
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BUHARI’S STANDOFF ON FURTHER DEVALUATION OF NAIRA A REPEAT OF HIS POSITION IN 1983– A COMMENDABLE DECISION (2)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Funding
“Prior to the first devaluation of naira in the 80s, naira exchanged favourably with major currencies. A university graduate could hope to save enough money few months after graduation, sufficient to purchase a brand new car. With drop in value of naira, the car became a commodity out of the reach of many university graduates.
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INSURGENCY; LESSONS FROM ABROAD
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“Nigeria stands to learn a lot from countries like Colombia which have contended with insurgency over the years. While some have advocated a more high handed approach including further militarisation of the region, others have advised that the insurgents be engaged in dialogue” On Monday 12th October 2015, former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo paid a