Spider Clues

Harvard, a renowned University in the world can be likened to have mocked Nigeria when she asked in one of her assignment to  students, why Nigeria as a country has failed to thrive from 1960 to 1999, in respect to relative China and India, despite its endowment in human and natural resources. The assignment which was tagged ‘ Nigeria-Fates in Balance ’ had the following questions asked by Harvard Business School, Executive Education Learning Nexus lecturer in his course tilled, ‘General Management and Program 24 Module IV’. Read the assignment below: Africa is growing. Seven of the ten fastest growing economies in the world are in Africa, and the continent’s largest economies are becoming less dependent on extractive commodities. The continent’s rising middle class has demonstrated a taste for consumer goods and technological innovation, and Africa’s population-currently more than a billion people –is booming and overwhelmingly young at a time when populations in other region...

Israel's defence minister on Sunday dismissed claims the country's spy agency was behind the assassination of a Palestinian scientist in Malaysia, suggesting instead that his killing was a "settling of accounts". Speaking to Israeli radio, Avigdor Lieberman described the dead Palestinian, a member of Islamist militant group Hamas, as "no saint" and said he had been involved in rocket production. Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, 35, was killed in a Kuala Lumpur drive-by shooting on Saturday, according to Malaysian authorities, with his family accusing Israel's Mossad spy agency of the assassination. Hamas said Batsh, a research scientist specialising in energy issues, was one of its members. "There's a tradition among terror organisations of blaming Israel for every instance of settling of accounts," Lieberman told public radio, noting the reports that Batsh's work involved improving the range and accuracy of rockets. "The man was no sa...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied creating 30,000 additional polling units in order to compromise the 2019 general elections. Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party`s (PDP), on Friday alleged that INEC was planning to create 30,000 illegal polling units in some remote areas. A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, on Sunday in Abuja, urged Nigerians to disregard the allegation. Oyekanmi explained that the commission received 3,789 requests nationwide for the creation of new polling units. He said that in response to the requests, the commission directed its Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to thoroughly asses and provide it with information on new settlements not served or inadequately served by existing polling units. He added that the commissioners were also to provide information on areas with natural barriers that hinder access to existing polling uni...

The Federal Government has said that in the next two weeks it would carry out an open day on the Focus Labs for Economic Recovery and Growth Plan ( ERGP ) launched by President Muhammadu Buhari , in order to showcase the success of the program to Nigerians. Nigeria’s Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, made the disclosure at the ongoing IMF/World Bank Spring meetings in Washington DC. Speaking with journalists after a meeting on Attracting Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, Udoma gave an update on the progress of ERGP, saying that, “At the moment, the Focus Labs are being conducted in agriculture, transportation, power and gas, manufacturing and processing. The response has been very good. We are looking forward to organizing an open day in which we will share the results with the Nigerian public; that should be in the next one or two weeks. So that is going well and I am very encouraged by it.” On Nigeria’s debt issue as ...

Akalla mutane shida ne suka hallaka a wani harin kunar bakin wake da aka kai wani masallaci a garnin Bama, a jiahr Borno da ke arwa maso gabashin Najeriya. Mutanen da suka mutu sun hada da mahara biyu mace da namiji, da kuma masallata hudu Shugabar hukumar bada agajin gaggawa ta jihar Borno Ya Bawa Kolo ta shaidawa BBC cewa wasu mutanen kuma sun ji rauni, kuma tuni aka garzaya da su asibiti.  Hukumomin jihar sun ce an kai harin ne lokacin da ake sallar asuba Kawo yanzu babu wanda ya dauki alhakin kai harin, amma dai kungiyar Boko Haram tana yawan kai irin wadannan hare-hare a yankin. Hukumomin Najeriya na ikirarin samun galaba a kan kungiyar Boko Haram, to sai dai kungiyar na ci gaba da kai hare-hare a wasu yankunan arewa masu gabas, musamman ma a jihar Borno. Rikicin Boko Haram ya janyo mutuwar dubban mutane a Najeriya gami da raba sama da mutum miliyan biyu da mahallansu.

This speech was delivered by Chief Awolowo in 1974: We are all gathered here this morning to witness the launching of Gani Fawehinmi’s new book People’s Right To Free Education At All Levels. It is not my place to review this book: this is a task reserved for literary critics, one of whom I am not. But after a careful study of the book, I feel able to say, in all seriousness and truth, that PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO FREE EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS is not only extremely readable and instructive, but also a very timely and telling contribution to a long-drawn debate on a great national and ideological issue which now appears to be approaching the happy climax of unanimous acceptability. I strongly commend this book to every Nigerian, indeed to anyone m the so-called under-developed countries, who wants to take part in the debate on, or who merely desires to educate himself as to, why education at all levels should be free to all. The author, Mr. Gani Fawehinmi deserves to be ...

These are very difficult times in our country. Sad, mournful and dolorous times, as the New Year opened with killings in Rivers, Kaduna, Taraba, and Benue states, among others. Of course, there had been gruesome carnage on the Mambilla plateau mid last year, and bloodletting in Numan, Adamawa State, as well as in other places. Hell suddenly seemed to have enlarged itself against Nigeria. Sincere condolences to those who are grieving and mourning the loss of loved ones. But instead of finding solutions, and joining to chart the way forward, some people are making political capital out of the killings. They are trying to use the orgy of bloodshed to advance their political interests, wanting to make it appear that it is a failure of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Faults are thick where love is thin. There is prejudice in Nigeria. Plenty. There is insularity, in prodigious quantity. There is animus, antipathy against anyone that is not of your ethnic or religious stock, or that b...