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Reform of Legal Education And The Legal Profession In 21 ST Century Nigeria
by Chima Umezuruike
19th FEB 2007
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Reform of Legal Education And The Legal Profession In 21 ST Century Nigeria
– By Chima Umezuruike
1.The purpose of this article is to highlight the need to reform legal education and the legal profession in Nigeria . If Nigeria wants to attract foreign investment there is a need for a reform of its legal profession.
2. It is focused on the reform of legal education, reform of the Evidence Act and Procedure (civil and criminal) Rules and a limited reform of the legal profession.
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The Niger Delta Challenge: A Global Perspective
by Eze Umezuruike
23rd JAN 2007
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The Niger Delta Challenge: A Global Perspective
– By Eze Umezuruike
If the figures quoted by the Finance Minister, Nenadi Usman, are correct, then Nigeria would have lost N570 billion ($4.4b) in revenue to unrest in 2006 and is set to lose more in 2007 if the situation in the Niger Delta region is handled in the same manner as in 2006. Quoting the Finance Minister earlier this month; "Early in the second quarter of 2006, there was a loss of production of 600,000 barrels per day from the joint venture operations...
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How Do We Reverse the Brain Drain?
by Philip Emeagwali
27th NOV 2006
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Follow the thoughts of one of Africa’s greatest brains who was voted history's greatest scientist (#1) of African descent — and the 35th greatest African of all time — in a survey for the September 2004 issue of the London-based New African magazine. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel Prize of supercomputing and in 2000 was extolled by Bill Clinton as “one of the great minds of the Information Age.”
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How Do We Reverse the Brain Drain? – By Philip Emeagwali
For 10 million African-born emigrants, the word “home” is synonymous with the United States, Britain or other country outside of Africa.
Personally, I have lived continuously in the United States for the past 30 years. My last visit to Africa was 17 years ago.
On the day I left Nigeria, I felt sad because I was leaving my family behind. I believed I would return eight years later, probably marry an Igbo girl, and then spend the rest of my life in Nigeria....
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IDEAS, NOT MONEY, GENERATE CAPITAL FOR
POVERTY ALLEVIATION.
by Philip Emeagwali
30th OCT 2006
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Follow the thoughts of one of Africa’s greatest brains who was voted history's greatest scientist (#1) of African descent — and the 35th greatest African of all time — in a survey for the September 2004 issue of the London-based New African magazine. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel Prize of supercomputing and in 2000 was extolled by Bill Clinton as “one of the great minds of the Information Age.”
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Africa: Out-of-the-Box Thinking in an In-the-Box World – By Philip Emeagwali
I once believed that capital was another word for money, the accumulated wealth of a country or its people. Surely, I thought, wealth is determined by the money or property in one’s possession. Then I saw a Deutsche Bank advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed: “Ideas are capital. The rest is just money.”
I was struck by the simplicity of such an eloquent and forceful idea. I started imagining what such power meant for Africa. The potential for progress and poverty alleviation in Africa relies on capital generated from the power within our minds, not from our ability to pick minerals from the ground or seek debt relief and foreign assistance...
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CALL CENTRES IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY
- An engine for growth
by Okay Victor Oguike
11th OCT 2006
Many companies can turn their call centres into powerful engines for growth...
A few years ago it was almost impossible to reach your bank either because they had limited phone services or that the few they...
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SAT 3 Cable Energising Nigeria's Telecom Revolution
By Valentine Anozia
22nd SEP 2006
For over 130 million people that make up Nigeria, costly bandwidth continues to make the Internet a rather inaccessible window...
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What Oil Windfall Can Do For Nigeria
By Eze Umezuruike
10th SEP 2006
As Nigeria continues, like several other African countries, to benefit from recent commodities boom, it is the application of the surplus to the long-term development of the economy that observers are doubtful of...
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