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    Some civil servants and their collaborators in the private sector exploit the high unemployment situation in the country to fleece desperate job seekers   Amina, surname withheld for legal reasons, finally got a job at the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, after a one-year compulsory national youth service at the National Assembly, though she did not apply for the job. “My uncle who got me the job told me he paid a lot of money to someone so I could get the job. They just told me to go and resume at my station in a…

    With various agencies generating huge revenues, government can conveniently meet its financial obligations to enhance socio-economic development of the country. But systemic leakages over the years remain a major challenge   When Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy, told Nigerians at an interactive session with the Senate Joint Committee on Appropriation, Finance, Public Account and National Planning, last August, that the country was not broke but had only cash flow troubles, she was stating the obvious. This is because the various government revenue-generating agencies have strengthened their capacity, especially in recent years, resulting…

    The well publicised disagreement over some clauses in the 2013 appropriation bill between President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly linger on at the risk of paralysing the economy   Buffeted by criticism from the opposition and a growing anger by the public over perceived slow pace of his administration, the year 2013 offers what may well be the last chance of President Goodluck Jonathan to market himself as a man ready to implement his much vaunted Transformation Agenda. But the budget, a key instrument with which his many projects can be executed, is suffering what some critics…

    President Goodluck Jonathan walks a tightrope back to Aso Villa in 2015, if ACN, ANPP and CPC can successfully pull off a merger but will they?   The fate of President Goodluck Jonathan as trading opens in the 2015 presidential election stocks appears similar to that of the Shakespearean stag tied to a stake and surrounded by many enemies. Given the build-up of opposing forces within and outside the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the first impulse by a less determined person may be to chicken out of the race and decide to be a ‘hero’, as some…