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Press Releases
Electricity Tariff Increase: The Monopoly, Ineptitude and Misery
On February 1, 2016, the Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) approved a nationwide implementation of a 45% increase in electricity tariff. To this effect, an average Nigerian family will spend an...
2016 Federal Budget: Fiddling While Nigeria Burns
The Nigerian media space has been recently suffused with trivia and jokes about the 2016 Federal budget. At first it was “missing”, then “padded”, and later “found”. This unfortunate...
NAS’ Petition to the Inspector General of Police on Impostors
15 July 2015 The Inspector General of PoliceNigeria Police ForceForce HeadquartersLouis Edet HouseArea 11GarkiAbuja Dear Sir, VIOLENT AND FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES OF STUDENTS POSING AS MEMBERS OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF...
Public Disclaimer Notice – Beware of Impostors!!!
BEWARE OF IMPOSTORS!!! The National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity has observed with dismay, claims by some unscrupulous individuals, especially students within and outside the Federal and State Tertiary...
Nigeria and the Burden of Financing the Legislature
The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) wishes to express its dismay at the unconscionable remuneration of Nigeria's National Assembly members and the adverse impact their salaries and sundry...
Seadogs Condemn Show of Shame in National Assembly
The National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity, has expressed deep sadness over the chaos that has engulfed both chambers of the National Assembly recently over issues bordering on sharing of principal...
Lending the NAS Voice to the #BringBackOurGirls Campaign
Dear sisters, brothers and friends, We are all ware of the abduction of 234female secondary school pupils from Chibok in Bornu State by Boko Haram. We know that the girls who were taken into the dreaded Sambisa forest...
World AIDS Day 2013: Getting to Zero
World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December every year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. World AIDS Day elucidates on the epidemic and historically was one of the...
Ethical Deficit, Corruption and the Challenges of Nation Building in 21st Century Nigeria
No nation can survive without strong moral and ethical foundation. Correspondingly, a nation devoid of morals and strong code of ethics is a nation without a soul. In plain speak; such a nation is without identity and...
State of emergency in Nigeria – Matters Arising
That our country, Nigeria, is in a state of severe security crises is no longer in doubt. From the northern savannahs to the creeks of the Niger Delta; from the southeast to the coastal plains of the southwest; every...
Nigeria is teetering on the brink of collapse
An open appeal to President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR,President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed ForcesFederal Republic of Nigeria Your Excellency, BACKGROUND: We, the National...