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By Martin Ike-Muonso   Education is highly reputed to deliver prosperity. That appears to be the number one reason why most people acquire it. Whether it is received formally or otherwise, education broadens a person’s view and understanding of life, of the environment where he belongs to, history and principles that underlie many of the […]

The Brookings institution appears to have successfully woken up the president, Muhammad Buhari from his deep slumber. The institution had earlier predicted that by 2030, Nigeria would have the highest number of poor people. In numerical terms, approximately one hundred and twenty Nigerians are predicted to fall into the poverty line eleven years from now. […]

By Martin Ike-Muonso   Official statistics from the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, the Central bank of Nigeria, small and medium enterprises agency of Nigeria and a host of other reliable sources have shown that no fewer than four hundred medium scale – mostly manufacturing – companies die each year. Again, based on the dependency ratio […]

By Martin Ike-Muonso   The enormity of the youth problem in Africa has ostensibly attracted a large number of supposed solution providers. For instance, non-governmental organisations that theoretically focus on the youth problem are by far more than the number focusing on other thematic areas. Notwithstanding the scale of engagement of NGOs and governments in […]

By Martin Ike-Muonso   The scale of intense commercial activity in Nnewi – a community comprising three local government areas – in Anambra State point to the apparent prosperity per capita of its citizens. The town is a mini version of Lagos and riddled with bubbling enterprises. Virtually every person is either buying or selling […]

By Martin Ike-Muonso   It is usually a thing of pride when we boast about our abundant natural resources, our youthful population and vast markets. These vaunts are some unsung reference to the size of the theoretical factors of production consisting of raw materials, capital and labour that are available to us. All things being […]