NIGERIA and other poor countries that turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial assistance to cushion the negative impacts of the COVID – 19 pandemic on their economies are being forced to implement austerity measures which have imposed more suffering on their citizens. A report published by Oxfam on Monday, October 12, 2020, …
Against Donald Trump (Nothing has changed, even worse)
For the third time since The Atlantic’s founding, the editors endorse a candidate for president. The case for Hillary Clinton. The Editors Oct 5, 2016 In October of 1860, James Russell Lowell, the founding editor of The Atlantic, warned in these pages about the perishability of the great American democratic experiment if citizens (at the …
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Remembering the Asaba Massacre By Ify Iloba
October 6 and 7, 1967 will ever remain unforgettable to Asaba people. They were the days the Nigerian Army led by late General Muritala Muhammed, attempted to wipe out all the male indigenes of Asaba because they were seen as Igbos and relations of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, leader of the 1966 coup that claimed …
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At 60, Nigeria has failed; restructure it now by Punch Editorial Board
SIXTY years after independence, the abject condition of the Nigerian state is everywhere in evidence; rancour, distrust, fear of implosion and deprivation are the talking points. Hitherto sanguine believers in the myth of “unity in diversity” are joining the majority to agitate that the country reverts to genuine federalism. In the borderlands and rural abodes …
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Allegations of fraud at Lagos, Abuja international airports trail COVID-19 repeat tests on passengers from abroad By IHUOMA Chiedozie
... Government officials offer to arrange persons to stand in for returnees at laboratories for tests IHUOMA ChiedozieOn Sep 25, 2020 ALLEGATION of fraud and other forms of sharp practices are trailing the COVID-19 repeat tests being carried out on passengers who arrived in Nigeria on international flights from abroad. Nigerians in the Diaspora and …
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