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2023: Anti-graft agencies, INEC and efforts to curb vote-buying
By Philomina Attah Vote-buying has remained a major part of the problems of election management in Nigeria. Twenty four years since the return of…
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Appraising operational successes of the military in 2022
By Sumaila Ogbaje, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Nigeria has continued to contend with a number of internal security challenges ranging from…
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EFCC: Bawa appointment as litmus test for youths
Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), becomes household name after his appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Contributory Pension: Going The Way of Old Scheme?
Problems associated with old pension scheme in Nigeria begins to rear its ugly head under Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), as retirees are no longer paid their entitlements three months after retirement.
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Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala is new WTO DG
Nigeria’s Prof. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed as the next World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General.
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Features: Echoes from Nigeria’s Corruption Rating by Transparency International
Since the release of the 2020 Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceived Index (CPI), in which Nigeria was placed 149 out of 180 countries, there had been mixed reactions on the correctness or otherwise of the rating.
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Evaluating government’s response to economic impact of COVID-19
Nigeria would cut the size of its N10.6 trillion budget for 2020 due to low revenue in order to accommodate the effect of COVID-19 on the economy.
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Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases hit +100,000 with 1,244 on Monday
NCDC) has reported 1,244 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 101,331.
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COVID-19 pandemic, credible electoral process and matters arising
However, the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has not only disrupted activities in societies, economies and lives across nations, presenting a somewhat difficult situation for the conduct of elections.
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News Analysis: Developing mining sector for economic diversification
By Francisca Oluyole Organised mining began in Nigeria in 1902, when the Mineral Survey of the Northern Protectorate was created by the British colonial…