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2021: Combat insecurity, COVID-19 – Ogbuehi Dike urges Govt; Demands scrap of SIECs; Asks Ikpeazu to pay workers’ salaries, pensions

A former governorship candidate in Abia State, Chief Ogbuehi Dike, has said that 2020 was a memorable year in world history tainted with COVID-19 global pandemic and lockdown which changed lifestyles and impoverished billions of people as economies went into recessions. In a statement to mark the New Year, Chief …

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‘Probe missing N3.8bn in health ministry, NAFDAC, others’, SERAP tells Buhari

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari “to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to probe allegations that N3,836,685,213.13 of public funds meant for the Federal Ministry of Health, teaching hospitals, medical centres, …

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Nigeria’s 2021 Budget and the realities of the COVID-19 economic challenges: An overview of the Budget estimates By Dr. Kazeem Bello

The global economy is currently witnessing an unprecedented paradigm shift which was occasioned by the sudden appearance of COVID-19 at the beginning of 2020. Nigeria is not spared in this myriad of economic, social, general well being problems created by the pandemic on a global scale. It is projected that …

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Christmas Homily: Don’t demonize Bishop Kukah, NCGF tells FG, Muslim groups

Adeze Ojukwu Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship (NCGF) has called on the Federal Government, AREWA youths and other Muslim organizations not to demonize the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah, over his Christmas homily. ‘Rather than demonize Bishop Kukah, he ought rather to be congratulated for bringing the dire …

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Beware of those advising restriction, ban on social media use, government warned at Prof. Onwuliri Memorial Lecture

Governments have been warned to approach with “utmost caution,” suggestions that the use of social media should be restricted or banned. The consensus at the recently held 8th Professor Celestine Onwuliri Memorial Lecture was that concerning the use of social media, “the positives far outweigh the negatives.” The Memorial Lecture, …

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