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Petrol Scarcity And The Depravity Of Nigerian Leaders

Petrol Scarcity And The Depravity Of Nigerian Leaders

January 30, 2023 4:25 am

It beggars belief how an oil-producing country like Nigeria has been enmeshed in a fuel crisis that has now spanned four months. It has been four months of pain, weeping, and gnashing of teeth for Nigerians who count for nothing in the minds of their leaders from every indication.

Africa’s most populous country and one of the largest producers of crude oil has been grappling with an economy-shattering scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit otherwise referred to as ‘PMS’ since the last quarter of 2022. Nigerians have simply lost count of the number of excuses that have been provided by different …

Atrocious Slave Trade: The West More Go Beyond Apologies

Atrocious Slave Trade: The West Must Go Beyond Apologies

January 30, 2023 3:36 am

Bringing justice in any situation requires not only the ceasing and desisting from the existing injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned through the perpetration of injustice. If restitution is not made and reparations are not instituted to compensate for prior injustices, what has only happened is that injustices were actually rewarded.

For over four and a half centuries, millions of Africans were captured to provide free labour in Europe, North and South America, and the Caribbean without their basic consent. …

Edo Train Attack: A Case Of Coordinated State Failure

Edo Train Attack: A Case Of Coordinated State Failure

January 26, 2023 5:21 am

Terrorists, criminals, kidnappers, and non-state actors have never been this emboldened in Nigeria’s history. Almost like an ungoverned space, the Nigerian state is growing weaker by the day and the reality of the average citizen is becoming scarier. With Nigeria already exhibiting clear signs of State failure, it will only be a matter of time before Africa’s most popular country caves in and becomes a full-blown failed state if nothing drastic is done to curtail the pacy downward slide.

A few weeks ago, barely a year after the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, criminals struck again, this time they attacked a …

Unveiling Prof. Nze's New Theoretical Framework - VOST

Unveiling Prof. Nze’s New Theoretical Framework – VOST

January 26, 2023 5:15 am

As times change, the very practices, systems, and operations that govern different sectors of society change. The old models become unsuitable for the current realities on the ground, and then it behooves the theorists, researchers, and inquisitors to find out what model the world needs at that time.

A failure to change with time and tides can spell doom for any industry, society, or country, which is why every new theory and thought pattern are welcomed at different curves. One such innovative, modernistic, and promising theoretical framework is the Prof. MarkAnthony Nze Value-Oriented System Theory in Contemporary Times which has …

Biya, Other Ailing Leaders Must Stop Disgracing Africa

Biya, Other Ailing Leaders Must Stop Disgracing Africa

January 26, 2023 4:45 am

The leadership problem in Africa is becoming more predominant by the day and it appears there is no big shift on the horizon. Over the past few decades, corrupt, narcissistic dictators who have no idea of what nation-building in Africa is have continued to acquire and hold power by all means. Some of these leaders even go as far as holding on to power despite glaring evidence of incapacitation and frailty and will rather die sitting on it than step aside in the interest of their countries.

Over the last month, Africa has been subjected to mockery and heavy concerns …

Apsley Business School Ranked Among The First 100 In Europe

Apsley Business School: Ranked Among The First 100 In Europe

January 24, 2023 5:26 am

It is not surprising that in just a little over a decade, Apsley Business School has elevated itself to become one of the best Business Schools anyone can find in the world in terms of class, variety, affordability, flexibility, and general curriculum. Through consistent efforts coupled with hard work, purposeful determination, and tenacity, the highly renowned citadel of learning can now boast of being ranked among the best 100 schools in Europe. 

Before now, Apsley Business school could only boast of being one of the top five hundred business schools in the world, and today, the story is now …

Why Africa Is The Only Continent That Can Survive By Itself

Why Africa Is The Only Continent That Can Survive By Itself

January 23, 2023 4:59 am

Over the past century, a number of narratives have been painted about Africa that, whether right or wrong, have contributed in no small measure to shaping the perception of the continent. Africa has been painted with narratives such as a child that is in dire need of development, an imminent threat, a rising economic power, a tinderbox of poverty, terrorism, forced migration, and deadly disease, and what have you. What some of the peddlers of these narratives have failed to do is to give Africa her full flowers and the due credit she deserves.

Despite the challenges Africa is facing, …

Kwankwaso And His Politics Of Ethnicity And Divisiveness

Kwankwaso And His Politics Of Ethnicity And Divisiveness

January 23, 2023 4:47 am

Nigerian politicians have over the years gained mastery in the usage of primordial sentiments to sway innocent voters whose only crime is their gullibility. These leaders have time and time again proven beyond every reasonable doubt that they are only interested in deceiving the populace for their votes during election cycles and do not give a hoot about what becomes of them thereafter. For these groups of politicians, winning elections in the country was directly proportional to the amount of religious and ethnic sentiments one is able to muster amongst the high-voting regions, and for them, this is all that …

The Unjust Incarceration Of Kanu And The Silence Of Ndigbo

The Unjust Incarceration Of Kanu And The Silence Of Ndigbo

January 23, 2023 4:35 am

With every passing day, it is becoming glaring that the refusal of Nigerian authorities to release Nnamdi Kanu is part of a well-orchestrated plot against Ndigbo for whom they have absolutely no respect, however, what is confusing here is why Ndigbo who are on the receiving end of these evil plots have opted for a grave silence in the face of injustice.

Nnamdi Kanu who is the leader of the secessionist, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was in 2021 kidnapped in Kenya. It happened in the most bizarre manner. It was said that on the 8th day of his abduction, …

It's High Time, Africa Stopped Running Governments Of Waste

It’s High Time, Africa Stopped Running Governments Of Waste

January 19, 2023 2:37 am

For many African leaders, being in government means access to the cookie jar and having a strong conduit pipe for the mismanagement of public resources. The docility of the populace and the lack of strong institutions have simply ensured that political commitment to good governance and transparency is nonexistent in such environments and this has left the continent retrogressive and stunted.

Despite being one of the most endowed continents in terms of natural resources, Africa remains bottom in virtually every development index owing to poor leadership. Corruption and an untamed culture of waste and an absence of transparency have …

2023 Tinubu, Atiku, And The Brotherhood Of Corruption

2023: Tinubu, Atiku, And The Brotherhood Of Corruption

January 19, 2023 2:26 am

Isn’t it amusing to find out that with less than 40 days to the general elections, the two major gladiators who are front runners to take President Muhammadu Buhari’s job are calling for each other’s arrest and prosecution for almost the same reason? The two political juggernauts who are essentially six and half a dozen clearly have nothing to offer Nigerians and it appears they are tired of trying to prove otherwise. 

Ahead of the February 25th elections, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his counterpart from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), …

Unemployability Of Nigerian Youths, A Ticking Time Bomb

Unemployability Of Nigerian Youths, A Ticking Time Bomb

January 19, 2023 2:07 am

When Nigeria’s minister of Labour, Chris Ngige described Nigerian youths as unemployable last year, the majority of Nigerian youths wished to go for his jugular. He was massively ‘dragged’, especially because of his position in the country and the very obvious unemployment problem in the country. Many people concluded that he was spewing trash to avoid taking responsibility for his failures as the Minister of Labour and Employment.

However, whether he made an earnest statement or was trying to hide behind his claims, an honest and unbiased look at the youths of these days will show you that his statement …

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