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Summer Coaching: To Whose Advantage, Parents, Teachers, Learners Or Proprietors?

Summer Coaching: To Whose Advantage, Parents, Teachers, Learners Or Proprietors?

Summer coaching has become a trend in the nation’s academic cycle, whereby pupils and students of primary and secondary schools are made to continue schooling despite being on holidays. ANAYO EZUGWU examines ongoing summer coaching…

2023 Flood Alert: When Predictions, Warnings Are Not Enough

2023 Flood Alert: When Predictions, Warnings Are Not Enough

The 2022 Annual Flood Outlook (AFO) by the relevant agencies predicted a possible flood disaster in the country, but both the government and the people took the predictions largely with levity and they paid for…

How Rising Inflation Is Leading Many To The Wrong Path

How Rising Inflation Is Leading Many To The Wrong Path

There is a growing concern about the increasing hardship being faced by Nigerians occasioned by fuel subsidy removal and other harsh economic decisions by the present government. There is also a consensus that the increasing…

Heeding AFO Warnings To Prevent Repeat Flood Disasters Across The Country

Heeding AFO Warnings To Prevent Repeat Flood Disasters Across The Country

In 2022, many parts of the country witnessed unprecedented flood disasters, rendering communities non- habitable and many inhabitants homeless, becoming squatters in internally displaced persons camps. In this piece, ADEYINKA ADENIJI warns against disobeying experts’…

When Multiple Varsities Become More Of Burden Than Blessing To A State

When Multiple Varsities Become More Of Burden Than Blessing To A State

The recent signing of the Student Loan Bill by President Bola Tinubu and the removal of fuel subsidy has brought with it many challenges in various sectors of the economy, especially the education sector. Many…

Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway: Home Owners, Residents Abandon Axis To Bad Road

Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway: Home Owners, Residents Abandon Axis To Bad Road

…Say It’s Now A Death Trap The Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway is one road that has been of concern to users over a long period of time, even from the era of former President Olusegun Obasanjo till…

Trademore Flooding: Unpleasant Clash Between FCTA And Estate Developers

Trademore Flooding: Unpleasant Clash Between FCTA And Estate Developers

The lingering face-off between owners of Trademore Estate, a residential estate in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, and the FCT administration over perennial flooding in the estate has been a source of concern, because…

Agony, Hardship Of Residents Over Ebonyi International Airport (2)

Agony, Hardship Of Residents Over Ebonyi International Airport (2)

In this concluding part of the special report on Ebonyi International Airport, UCHENNA INYA examines the anger of many over the renaming of the airport by former President, Muhammadu Buhari, among other crucial issues OYC…

Agony, Hardship Of Residents Over Ebonyi Int’l Airport (1)

Agony, Hardship Of Residents Over Ebonyi Int’l Airport (1)

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ranked Ebonyi as the 4th poorest state in Nigeria and the first in South-East. In this report, UCHENNA INYA examines the agitation for human capital development in the state and…

The Bitter-sweet Experience Of Ogun State’s 30 Tertiary Institutions

Ogun State enjoys the privilege of having the highest number of tertiary institutions in the country. Some stakeholders attribute the development to the work of forefathers of the state, others say it is a function…