The Changing Nature of Work — It’s Gigs, Not Jobs In the 21st Century, By Adetola Salau
This news is welcome to a lot of people who desire to be free from being fixed in an office space, and the new frontier of freelancing offers a lot. It is scary for some people also, as their safety nets have been their regular jobs. The key thing is…
The Intrigues and Power Play Over 2018 Electoral Amendment Bill, By Jide Ojo
The way forward is two-fold. INEC has decided to plan and conduct the next general election due on February 16 and March 2, 2019 on the extant Electoral Act 2010, as amended in 2015, as well as the new constitutional amendments. Alternatively, the National Assembly could exercise its power to…
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Funding Public Services To Address Persistent Migration, By Geneviève Gencianos
• George Moussa As George, Moradeke, Luciana and many others show every day, public service workers and their unions are uniquely placed to facilitate the addressing of global forced displacements happening in our century. They fight inequality and build resilient and inclusive societies. His name is George. Every morning, this…
FIRS: A Forceful Collector of Taxes In An Era of Poverty (1), By Eric Teniola
In the face of it all, Dr. Fowler will come with his taxation drive in order to ‘meet target or surpass target’, in a manner that renders us helpless like poor orphans. Target! Target!! Target!!! is all that matters, without considering the human aspect. The government must realise that over-taxation…
Where’s The Devil In The Electoral Bill?, By Azu Ishiekwene
The problem is that the National Assembly has weaponised the Bill; it has become one more tool in the war theatre between the legislative and executive branch, a theatre that Buhari himself helped to install by his standoffishness at the beginning of his administration. Exaggeration is the most common strain…
Why the North Should Not Take The Rest of Nigeria for Granted, By Majeed Dahiru
...the North has an opportunity to take advantage of the Atiku alternative with the prospects of re-uniting a sharply divided country, because he enjoys the confidence of a broader plurality To continue to insist on the Buhari candidacy in 2019, will mean the North is taking the rest of Nigeria…
Lagos and the Garbage Question, By Louis Odion
...a poor reading of the challenge at hand is to assume it ends with the now familiar unsightly spectacle of communal wheelie bins overflowing with rubbish at the street-corners or bulging bin bags dumped in the median of the highways. No less critical is the issue of industrial waste. After…
Health Care Financing: the Doctor’s Perspective, By Tavershima Adongo
People should not have to travel over 50 kilometres to healthcare facilities and when they do get to these facilities they shouldn’t have to be turned back because they don’t have cash or there are no syringes or catheters to give at least first aid. Have you ever had the…
The NBA President’s Trial: I See No Attack On the Legal Profession, By J. S. Okutepa
We must stop whipping up sentiment. The legal profession is a noble one. It does not encourage conduct that aids or abets wrong. The charge I read does not attempt to regulate the fees The charge seems to question the propriety of a lawyer being paid from government coffers for…
Why the NBA President Must Resign, By Raymond Nkannebe
The principal issue is: Should the man not take a walk from his headship of the bar and attend to his trial? And how much reputational harm are we willing to inflict on such an exalted office as the presidency of the bar, on account of the interest of its…
