The Management, staff and pupils of MD Nursery and Primary School, Lagos have expressed the conviction that there is hope for Nigeria to overcome its numerous challenges.
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On Thursday, September 28, 2023 at the Ministry of Works and Housing, a spectacle was beamed to the entire world. An employee, the spokesperson, in the Ministry took the microphone to school the Minister, the representative of Mr President. The minister’s infraction? He was accused of locking the entrance gate against late comers at about 9.30am that day. The late-comer employees, after amassing to a sizeable number, turned soberness to protest. The civil servants’ spokesperson goes thus: “In civil service, Honourable Minister, there are laid down principles. There are guidelines.” He paused to turn to his fellow co-travelers and bellowed, “can you hear me? of which they shouted their rancorous response. He then turned to the Minister who stood at attention like a child summoned for reprimand by his father, and continued the schooling. “There are guidelines and principles in running the civil service. No one is a sole administrator. It doesn’t happen in civil service (listen very well, another interjected from the crowd of employees to which he received “please calm down” from the man with microphone). “We were surprised, he continued, “for us to come to office this morning and we found that, the security personnel told us that you gave instruction for them to lock the gate. Sir, to us you have actually placed the cart before the horse. Since you came in, have we had any issue with you? No. And you have never deemed it fit to call us as stakeholders to address us. If you have challenges, rather than all these things, we see you on media castigating us as civil servants (“yes, yes” from the crowd). It is uncalled for. Whether you like it or not, civil servants are the most respected citizens in this country. Without civil service, this country cannot move forward (“yes, yes” from the crowd). Sir, you are saddled with the responsibility of an administrator to fix Nigeria’s roads. But sir, it is quite unfortunate you have been here for months now. We want you to swing into action. We have not seen even a kilometer of a road being laid. Rather, you kept on going around and castigating us, intimidating us. Sir, we are not like that and we cannot take that. Sir you see what we want? We are civil servants, you need to respect us in the first place. It is a must that you respect us. It is a must. Now secondly, you need to carry us along. You cannot do this work alone. And you cannot import workers from outside to do the work for us. It is not possible. So what we want is total respect.”
Dear beloved Nigeria, yesterday, Sunday, October 1 was your birthday. I congratulate you on your 63rd birthday anniversary.
Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has counted many blessings that have resulted from the creation of the state 27 years ago one of which is its acknowledgement as an important factor in Nigeria.
The FCT Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has deployed 3,000 personnel to provide adequate security in the territory as the country celebrates her 63rd Independence Day Sunday.
Nigeria could have been a rich country where no one lives in poverty and hunger. Economic inequality in Nigeria has reached extreme levels, despite being the largest economy in Africa. The country has an expanding economy with abundant human capital and the economic potential to lift millions out of poverty. But this is not happening. In fact, despite Nigeria’s richness in solid minerals, oil and arable land, it is still poor. What a paradox!
Having hit the ground running at home, with a series of very bold and unprecedented reform decisions, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has gone ahead to seize the opportunity offered by the month of September 2023, to make a grand entry onto the global stage.
Nigeria currently has 84 qualified paediatric dentists to attend to its children, Dr Ify Adegbulugbe, National President of the Nigerian Association of Paediatric Dentistry (NAPD) says.
Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, says Nigeria is ready to play an important role in meeting the global…
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Hajj and Umrah on Tuesday allocated 95,000 Hajj slots to Nigeria for the 2024 annual pilgrimage.
The zeal and focus of the current Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Alake, as observed from his utterances, actions and body language give an impression of his determination to make a mark in the industry. Naturally, the cynical reaction will be: “Na Today?,” using a common Nigerian local refrain. Or: “Have we not seen this before?,” especially considering the actions and initial zeal of previous ministers.
International airlines blocked funds in Nigeria has risen to $783 million as at August 2023.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 25.80 per cent in August 2023.
Nigeria’s public debt stock increased from N49.85 trillion ($108.30 billion) in the first quarter of 2023 to N87.38 trillion ($113.42 billion) in the second quarter of 2023.
Cameroon was the world’s most productive country in 2022 with an average employee productivity of 94.1%; while Nigeria was the third least productive country (47.7%). This was the outcome of a research carried out and published by DeskTime. As revealed in the published research work, the most productive country in Europe was Spain with average productivity of 89.8% (in 8th position globally) while the USA was the 15th most productive country in the world (87.3%). On the down side, Nigeria chose ranks with Iran (the least productive, (38.6%) and Mongolia (41.9%). No one should be surprised by this revelation; not with the kind of Nigeria’s public sector that is characterized by poor work ethics, inflated contracts, employment scams and other social ills that are now as rampant as invading locusts and grasshoppers in dried savannah.
In most political climes the first 100 days of an administration is now viewed as a bellwether of things to come. The actions and policies implemented give insight into the direction of a government and more importantly into the personal vision of the head of state.
There seems to be a transition. A metamorphosis from the quotidian loan-driven articulations to investment-tailored pursuits and commitments. Nigeria has over successive administrations hypostasised borrowing in its bucket of foreign economic interests. These borrowings have put a cosmic strain on government revenue. Nigeria’s external debt stands at over N49.85 trillion, and with about 73 percent of its earnings used for debt servicing.
The Group Chairman, Heirs Holdings Group Chairman, Tony O. Elumelu has urged business investors to seize the opportunity of $14 billion commitment to invest in Nigeria.
With a thriving and fertile environment for extortion and racketeering, process for obtaining the Nigerian passport has turned the booklet into a hire purchase document where applicants pay official cost at point of application, connoting preliminary downpayment, and thereafter compelled to pay a bribe as balance in installments or in full, depending on the deal reached with Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) officials involved in this underhand deed. This is the practice nationwide.
The British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Mr Jonny Baxter, says his first few weeks in Nigeria has revealed the people as passionate, full of energy, and with entrepreneurial spirit