What is the nature of the youth strategy required to harness the youth in Nigeria? What is to be done is clear: We need youth development programmes and value proposition, as well as an execution framework, around which a paradigmatic value reorientation and platforms of engagement can be achieved

Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology, Dr. Tunji Olaopa, has called for a change in the bureaucratic culture within the civil service to give a new logic of open government to the system.

Point to Remember: Nigeria is one of Africa’s biggest economies and includes the traditional as well the modern After lurching from one military coup to another, Nigeria now has an elected leadership. But the government faces the growing challenge of preventing Africa’s most populous country from breaking apart along ethnic and religious lines.

No where else is the challenge of transformation and modernization of the public sector more daunting than the sub-Saharan Africa where most of the countries are still grappling with the crisis of government and development. Largely colonial appendages who assured independence from the imperialis

Technical education is a planned programme of courses and learning experiences that begins with exploration of career options, supports basic academic and life skills, and enables achievement of high academic standards, leadership, preparation for industry-defined work, and advanced and continuing education.

Ezekwesili canvasses competent civil service for FG’s reforms – On 24th June, 2015, Former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, yesterday, said the vision to reform the country will require a civil service with character, capacity and competence where the operatives are not immune to changes

In an industry that is troubled by global standards, and dying, by African standards, Ethiopian Airlines has remained successful in terms of safety and profitability for its almost seven decades of existence and counting. In 2011 alone, for instance, Ethiopian Airlines received four different awards. These include African Cargo Airline of the Year, Deal of the Year 2010 Award, Africa’s Most Profitable Airline of the Year (2011 was the third in a row) as well as African Airlines Association (AFRAA) Award for being consistently profitable over the years. (AFRAA is the trade organization open to membership of African Union states in the airline business). Ethiopian Airlines’ success story is no doubt a far cry from the underperformance and/or comatose state of the likes of South African Airlines, Kenyan airlines, Air Afrique, and Nigeria Airways, to name a few. It leaves many in wonderment what accounts for such achievement? Some close watchers of the airline are of the opinion that national pride is a contributing factor.

Nigerians impatient for oil sector anti-graft reforms

Social analysts note that some dissenting voices greeted the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to remove part of the subsidy paid on petrol and pool the accruing funds to finance the country’s social and infrastructural development.

Governance and the Institutional Framework of Development Management in Africa: Reversing the Decline in Quality Delivery – The Institutional Framework of Development Management: As I stated in an earlier blog post, development management, in scholarly and practical perspectives, serves as a tool for executing institutional agendas within the measure of planning, implementation and monitoring of development oriented programmes. Governments and the public service generate policies, provide research based analysis of development situations, introduce and monitor corresponding projects in development at every level of decisions – international, regional, national or local.

‘The world needs science and science needs women,’ says UN on new International Day – More than ever today, the world needs science and science needs women, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said today marking the first International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

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