2016
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RESCHEDULED ELECTION DATE AND THE LAW
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
No Comments“Generally, it is necessary to ensure that any election conducted is done in a way that would substantially ensure that the main objective of a free and fair election is achieved”. In this edition, I intend to consider two issues namely: Whether Nigeria is in a state of war and Whether or not election can
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JUSTICE: LOSS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE-NEED TO SEPARATE OF INVESTIGATIVE AND PROSECUTORIAL FUNCTIONS OF EFCC AND ICPC (7)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Law
JUSTICE: LOSS OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE-NEED TO SEPARATE OF INVESTIGATIVE AND PROSECUTORIAL FUNCTIONS OF EFCC AND ICPC (7) “Where there is a separation of the duties of investigation and prosecution, there will be increased likelihood of fairness to an accused who will by this development be shielded from unfair persecution or even prosecution”. Over the course
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GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE:
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
PREMATURE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNING COUNCILS (4) “What most governments at the State and Federal levels do is to appoint people based on political considerations. There have been reported cases of council members requesting either contracts or even cash for members of their constituencies in the belief that they were appointed to serve the interests
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Lagos – Recognition as Commercial Capital City of Nigeria
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Funding
“Lagos should be accorded the necessary legislative status and the financial muzzle to stand in this position”. Modern-day Lagos, then called Eko, was founded by the Binis in the 16th century. The Portuguese explorer, Ruy de Sequeira, who visited the area in 1472, named the area around the city Lago de Curamo, with the present
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NATION NIGERIA: MANAGING DIVERSITY – THE BIAFRA ISSUE AND WAY OUT – (DEVOLUTION OF POWER) (3)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“I remain of the view that the recommendations of the Conference particularly the issue of devolution of power need to be revisited. If considered and adopted most of the recommendations will address the issues of marginalization and other problems underlying most ethnic agitations in Nigeria”. Last week I identified the over emphasis on the national
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Cost and funding of university education: Loans to students
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Funding
“Government (federal, state and local government should link up with financial institutions to provide loans at low rate as it obtains in other countries to enable them pay adequate fees to their institutions. These fees will in turn provide the necessary funds which the university needs to provide and maintain quality education”.
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DWINDLING EDUCATION IN NIGERIA:
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
ILLEGAL UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS “Amend the NUC law and give the commission sufficient powers of immediate and outright closure of illegal universities with further powers of severe sanctions including forfeiture of the school properties to government while the promoters, founders, councils and teachers of such illegality should face life imprisonment”. Long ago during
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The Roles Of Teachers In Dwindling Education
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
.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