Michael Ojuroye Initiative (Ngo)

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 1st 2013 In the last 53 years, the education sector has witnessed a mix of successes and failures, CHARLES ABAH writes “The decline in the system in the past 53 years was gradual, but sure. The end is not in sight. As long as the government of a developing country like ours needs reminding that education is important in the growth of a nation, there will be no amelioration of the country’s loss of bearing academically.” This is the thought of a university lecturer, Dr. Fidelis Okoro, as he assesses the nation’s education sector since independence. Of course, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka teacher, has every reason to hold this view. In the last 92 days, Okoro and other teachers in the country’s public universities have abandoned the classrooms for their homes, following a strike called by their umbrella body, the Academic Staff Union of the Universities. They are protesting against the non-implementation of an agreement the Federal Government...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 1st 2013 As Nigeria marks 53 years of independence today, one of the salient issues bordering the citizenry is the development of its gas resources. This is because despite the abundant gas reserve estimated at about 187 trillion cubic feet and a further undiscovered potential estimated at 600 trillion cubic feet, gas is not yet available to every household or industrial concern in the country. In the last few years, the country has launched its Gas Master Plan, GMP, aimed at improving its gas supply from the current one billion cubic feet per day to about 10bcf/day by 2020. In spite of the master plan, Nigerians are yet to feel the impact of the policy. Thus eliciting the pertinent question, how has the country fared in its gas development since independence? Prof. Joseph Ezigbo, managing director, Falcon Petroleum, a company that has handled many gas projects, said the federal government has achieved about 30 percent in its gas development pla...