The Mambilla Power Project acknowledged to have the potential to hugely enhance the nation’s power supply has remained a victim of policy inconsistency and absence of political will required to bring it to fruition. Designed to provide 3,050 megawatts (MW) ...
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Feed SubscriptionThat Curious Proposal By State Governors – EDITORIAL
In an unprecedented policy recommendation, governors of the 36 states of the federation, reportedly, advised the federal government to offer federal civil servants who are above 50 years a one-off service exit package. In their opinion, this will form part ...
Read More »Pastor Umo Eno’s Certificate Scandal and Gov Udom Emmanuel’s Alternative Plan
CENTURY NEWSFRONT EDITORIAL The selection of Pastor Umo Bassey Eno fromNsit Ubiul local government area of Akwa Ibom State as PDP Governorship choice for the State was not a bad choice in any context. Pastor Umo Eno, a gentleman and ...
Read More »Flush Out Traitors Within The Security Agencies
THE admission by the Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, that fifth columnists are active in the Nigerian Armed Forces lays bare a major factor that has contributed to the prolonged war against insurgency in Nigeria. This followed the recent ...
Read More »Federalised Police: Time To Do It Is Now
The Long-Term Cure For Nigeria’s Current Security Challenges To be sure, the history of sub-national policing in Nigeria is bitter and rotten. Pristine policing, in several parts of the territory that makes up the present Nigeria, were attached to royal ...
Read More »Oil Palm As A Major Foreign Exchange Earner
The ban of crude palm oil and its derivatives exports by Indonesia, the world’s largest supplier of the commodity, should be music to the ears of investors in that line of business in Nigeria who eye the export market. Before ...
Read More »Zero-Tolerance For Military Brutality Against Civilians Imperative
IMPUNITY was once more on display recently when unruly soldiers from the Nigerian Army Battalion, Ibodi, Ilesa, in Osun State, battered and extra-judicially killed a civilian. In a despairingly common scene, a car dealer, Adeyinka Adekunle, 37, became the latest ...
Read More »Mounting Fears Over 2023 Elections
Despite the scramble for party tickets by some politicians for various political positions, especially the presidency, there are mounting fears that the growing insecurity across the country may truncate the 2023 elections. Some prominent Nigerians and groups are of the ...
Read More »Buhari, Declare State Of Emergency In Kaduna
THE terrorists, who last week staged a series of attacks in the Northern states, including assaulting the Kaduna-Abuja train and ambushing and killing military troops confirmed that undoubtedly, Nigeria is at war. The country is assailed from within by expanding ...
Read More »UBEC And States’ Neglect of Basic Education
THE careless attitude to education by Nigeria’s political elite is once more in the limelight. A recent report by The PUNCH revealed how some state governments have failed to follow the due process required to access N33.6 billion funding provided ...
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