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The Path To A Smoke-Free Nigeria | Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Categories: ColumnsContinue Reading: The Path To A Smoke-Free Nigeria | Independent Newspaper NigeriaNigeria is one of the African countries with the highest burden of tobacco-related diseases and deaths. Unfortunately, the National Tobacco Control Act 2015 has been slow and inadequate in addressing…
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Soyinka’s Harmattan Haze On An African Spring | Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Categories: ColumnsContinue Reading: Soyinka’s Harmattan Haze On An African Spring | Independent Newspaper NigeriaIn Harmattan Haze on an African Spring, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka condemns the notion that any of the major civilizations occurred in a vacuum. Most often, especially as it relates…
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Nigeria, a country that demolishes more than it builds
Categories: ColumnsContinue Reading: Nigeria, a country that demolishes more than it buildsNigeria, a country that demolishes more than it builds Abimbola Adelakun Popular singer Yemi Alade recently drew the ire of some online commentators when she decried the frequency of house demolitions in Lagos. Some of these commenters’ vocifero
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Now that we have National Clean Cooking Policy
Categories: ColumnsContinue Reading: Now that we have National Clean Cooking PolicyNow that we have National Clean Cooking Policy Greg Odogwu Now that the Federal Executive Council has finally approved the long-awaited National Clean Cooking Policy, which was launched a fortnight ago in Abuja, there is no longer any excuse for
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The Dangers Of Fake News | Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Categories: ColumnsContinue Reading: The Dangers Of Fake News | Independent Newspaper NigeriaPre-celebration on November 11, 2018, of first anniversary of the Armistice – what is known as “the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month” that ended First…
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Unending Massacres And Citizens’ Right To Bear Arms | Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Categories: ColumnsContinue Reading: Unending Massacres And Citizens’ Right To Bear Arms | Independent Newspaper NigeriaThe 2023 Christmas eve’s wanton massacre of more than a hundred innocent and defenseless Nigerians in Plateau State by armed criminal bands is one of the many gory wastages of…
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Wanted: A State Of Emergency On Cost Of Governance | Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Categories: ColumnsContinue Reading: Wanted: A State Of Emergency On Cost Of Governance | Independent Newspaper NigeriaThe lobbies and lounges of the Nicon Hilton Hotel (now Transcorp Hilton) and Sheraton Hotels and Towers (now Abuja Continental Hotel) were very boisterous in the early days of the…
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Between ‘minimum wage’ and ‘living wage’
Categories: ColumnsContinue Reading: Between ‘minimum wage’ and ‘living wage’Between ‘minimum wage’ and ‘living wage’ Akeem Lasisi One of the burning issues on our national scene is the need to increase workers’ salaries. Labour has continued to put pressure on governments, especially the federal, for increment in
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Umahi and disappointing act of ethnic baiting
Categories: ColumnsContinue Reading: Umahi and disappointing act of ethnic baitingUmahi and disappointing act of ethnic baiting Minister of Works, David Umahi Last week, there was an uproar over the demolition of some property to make way for the construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road. Many Nigerians condemned the speed
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The Minimum Wage Issue: Numbers Vs Value | Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Categories: ColumnsContinue Reading: The Minimum Wage Issue: Numbers Vs Value | Independent Newspaper NigeriaThe issue of minimum wage or salary increase or by whatever nomenclature is a complicated policy issue. The wage increase is neither good nor bad, but as a policy choice,…
