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25 Feb
The Nigerian Economic Society (NES) has expressed concerns over the low number of economists at the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and the Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment.
7 Feb
A plan to harness talented youths from different parts of the country as managers of the public service in line with President Bola Tinubu’s agenda to build a government of national competence was stressed...
1 Feb
Civil service needs to clean its house before it can reclaim its lost glory, the Chairman of Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has said.
13 Dec
The Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Prof Tunji Olaopa, on Wednesday, said his first task in the Commission under him will be to make a scapegoat of corrupt elements who soil the service's image. Prof Olaopa gave the hint while speaking to newsmen after his swearing-in as Chairman of the FCSC, along…
3 Dec
Professor of African Philosophy and Logic at the Nnamdi Azikwe University, Maduabuchi Dukor, has warned against voicing negative narratives about the relevance of philosophy in a scientific age.
27 Jul 2023
Woodrow Wilson, that eminent political scientist, and preeminent former president of the United States, once noted fundamentally that “the method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”
14 Jul 2023
Let me state urgently that I don’t know Tunji Olaopa. I have never met him physically and do not believe or expect that his path ever will cross mine.
29 Jun 2023
For instance, Olaopa believes that there is an administrative pathology in the Nigerian civil service which he tagged “debilitating bureau-pathology” and that this conundrum can be surmised as “too many people doing nothing; too many doing too little...
28 Jun 2023
In Books and Becoming, Olaopa offers the rationale for his bookish life and the obsessive place that the search for knowledge occupies in his life. “My entire life has always been defined and shaped by books,” he declares unapologetically.
27 Jun 2023
Literally, memoirs perform retrospection surgery on the memory. They do this by removing shards that encumber and make remembrance difficult.
17 Apr 2023
In 1976, Karl Popper, easily one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, published his autobiography, the Unended Quest. It was the philosopher’s attempt to capture in graphic, simple and autobiographical form, the trajectory of his intellectual life—how...
7 Apr 2023
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, described the just-concluded general elections as a “sickening show of shame,” saying that efforts should be made by patriotic Nigerians to not only correct it but prevent reoccurrence.

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