Nigeria and COP 26
Nigeria and COP 26 – the question facing us must surely be whether the emphasis in Nigeria should be on adapting to climate change,...
Read MoreRestructuring - Things Fall Apart or Fall into Place
The Federal government is not working, in the sense that however much effort the respective cabinet members may put in, the results are not...
Read MoreClimate Change – An Introduction
Most in Nigeria tend to agree that it is hotter today than it was 20 years ago. There also seems to be a consensus...
Read MoreMoving Out of Crisis: Why Nigeria Needs a National Transport Policy
Nigeria faces multiple simultaneous pressures to advance economic growth and human development within the context of a large and rapidly growing population. The substantial...
Read MoreUnemployment Figures and The Economy
Preface This paper presents a position on the latest unemployment figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics. The new statistics put the unemployment...
Read MoreIndustry or Conducive Environment: Source of Successes of Past Generations
Our fathers’ generation seem to have done exceedingly well out of Nigeria. And this is in every venture they embarked upon. For their successes,...
Read MoreTransmission and Concession of TCN: Restructuring for Performance Improvement and Expansion
Executive Summary Government recently announced its plan to unbundle and concession TCN, the public sector enterprise responsible for national power grid operations and development....
Read MoreMemorandum: Tackling Kidnapping and Banditry
Executive Summary. Starting with the current surge in incidents of kidnapping/banditry in Nigeria, we identify peer countries that have faced such challenges and...
Read MoreWhy Agriculture Keeps Getting Output Scrambled
The recent scarcity of eggs in parts of the country is indicative of just how much the poultry sector is in disarray. Is this...
Read MorePoverty, Insecurity and Conflict Mitigation – The Nigerian Special Case?
I The conflict trap While it may seem intuitive that a correlation exists between poverty and insecurity, there is a dearth of empirical studies...
Read MoreDemise of the Social Contract - Covid-19, Fridays For Future, and the EndSARS Protest
The COVID-19 Pandemic One lesson that nations the world over have had to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic is that certain parts of their...
Read MoreOn Rail Construction to Niger Republic
On Wednesday September 23rd 2020, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) announced the decision that the Federal Government had approved the construction of a $1.959...
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