In what appeared like a drama, residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, recently protested against a 24-hour supply of electricity to their communities. For them, rather than rejoicing, the constant electricity supply has increased the amount they pay for electricity and has led to ridiculous and “outrageous billings”,
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The organised labour had insisted that the Federal Government should rather implement a ‘no pay, no work’ policy just as it would criminalise the non-payment of salaries by employers.
Democracy requires an active media to thrive. This is because the parameters that constitute good governance, which is a common feature of a vibrant civil rule, can be measured by the level of accountability,
These critical issues formed discussions at the just-concluded 67th General Assembly and 2018 International Press Institute World Congress held in Abuja for the very first time in the history of Nigeria and attended by some 330 participants and 65 speakers from 37 countries.
Secondly, it reminds us that the truth would always prevail, no matter what happens and for how long truth is suppressed. Nothing can ever kill the truth.
Retirement, which ordinarily should be embraced with joy, has become a source of sorrow, frustration, panic, agony and replete with fraud. Ironically, the public servant, having put in all his/her life into active service would naturally be expected to be rewarded. His/her immediate returns during service are by ways of salaries and wages while the long time rewards after active service are mainly by pensions and gratuities.
Aside from the shortage of personnel caused by such indiscriminate deployments, some of the policemen that should have been distinguished men and women have been turned into servitude. What we see is usually photographs on social media, showing police officers carrying bags for wives of politicians and officers holding umbrellas over foreigners by shielding them from the sun
Should the media be blamed for all the negative stories? I don’t think so. The media are simply performing their multi-faceted roles in the society. Theories like the cultivation analysis, development media, spiral of silence, media logic, symbolic interactionism and the agenda-setting, among others, have attempted to interrogate the place of the media in our modern day world.
In the final analysis, the amendment is a welcome development that is good for our polity. There is nothing unconstitutional in what the federal lawmakers are doing