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The Clamour For Restructuring – Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Categories: EditorialContinue Reading: The Clamour For Restructuring – Independent Newspaper NigeriaThere is no gainsaying that this newspaper has been in the vanguard of the agitation for restructuring Nigeria along the principles of federalism. We have consistently argued that for the…
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Season of demolitions
Categories: EditorialContinue Reading: Season of demolitionsSeason of demolitions FILE: Demolition of buildings in Lagos State IT is Nigeria’s season of demolitions. Across the landscape, states and the Federal Government seem to be deploying the same tactic and rhetoric as they demolish properties. While
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Nigeria’s minimum wage conundrum
Categories: EditorialContinue Reading: Nigeria’s minimum wage conundrumNigeria’s minimum wage conundrum Minimum wage FEW were surprised when the ongoing talks on the national minimum wage broke down on May 15. The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress staged a walkout after rejecting the N48,000 per m
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Edun must not raid pension pot
Categories: EditorialContinue Reading: Edun must not raid pension potEdun must not raid pension pot Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun NIGERIA’S Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, is in the eye of the storm. And rightly so. Perhaps feeling
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Flash Floods And Economic Losses | Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Categories: EditorialContinue Reading: Flash Floods And Economic Losses | Independent Newspaper NigeriaIn spite of the weather advisories issued by the relevant agencies of the Federal Government, many states were hit by severe flooding in 2022, resulting in the untimely deaths of…
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Cybersecurity levy is one tax too many
Categories: EditorialContinue Reading: Cybersecurity levy is one tax too manyCybersecurity levy is one tax too many President Bola Tinubu NIGERIANS woke up to economic terror on Monday. That day, the Central Bank of Nigeria directed banks to impose a cybersecurity levy of 0.5 per cent on electronic banking transactions. It
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Revisiting The Fifth Alterations Of The Nigerian Constitution (4) | Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Categories: EditorialContinue Reading: Revisiting The Fifth Alterations Of The Nigerian Constitution (4) | Independent Newspaper NigeriaIt is our view that the constitutional amendment with regards to the inauguration of cabinet at the federal or state level did not go far enough. For instance, a constitutional…
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NCoS: What is in a name change?
Categories: EditorialContinue Reading: NCoS: What is in a name change?NCoS: What is in a name change? NPS A few years after a name-change from the Nigerian Prisons Service to the Nigerian Correctional Service, it is debatable whether the crucial mandates of the NCoS to seclude and reform criminals before returning th
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Revisiting The Fifth Alterations Of The Nigerian Constitution (3) | Independent Newspaper Nigeria
Categories: EditorialContinue Reading: Revisiting The Fifth Alterations Of The Nigerian Constitution (3) | Independent Newspaper NigeriaBesides, the most impecunious among them who cannot afford the cost of private power generation result to social vices as the only surviving strategy, in the apparent absence of any…
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Police brutality in Ughelli reprehensible
Categories: EditorialContinue Reading: Police brutality in Ughelli reprehensiblePolice brutality in Ughelli reprehensible Nigeria Police JUST when Nigerians think that the police will get better after nearly 25 years of the Fourth Republic, they are getting crueller. Openly, brutal officers teargassed and shot at unarmed women
