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The Economic Confidential has released its Annual States Viability Index (ASVI) which shows that 17 states are insolvent as their Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) in 2017 were far below 10 per cent of their receipts from the Federation Account Allocations (FAA) in the same year. The index proved that without the monthly disbursement from the …
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Increasingly, you hear a segment of the commentariat scream that restructuring in Nigeria is a complex set of issues and problems that should be nuanced. Such commentators often ask: what is restructuring? What exactly are we restructuring? They then berate those who have "a simplistic, financial understanding of the issue". Well, I have a simplistic, …
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THE ADVERTISING Standards Authority (ASA) is set to take action against an advert by a Chafford Hundred-based church. The Rivers of Life Ministry advertised their Easter services at the Drake Road Community Church with an advert that stated the following. “Come and Experience The Power That Raised Jesus From The Dead (Come And Receive Your …
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She’s on school reading lists and counts Hillary, Oprah and Beyoncé as fans. The author talks about motherhood, #MeToo – and causing controversy Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘The world is changing very fast, and we intend to accelerate it.’ Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian At a PEN lecture in Manhattan last weekend, the novelist Chimamanda …
Refugees who crossed the Canada-U.S. border near Hemmingford, Quebec, are processed in a tent after being detained last August. The flow of asylum seekers that began last summer has resumed this spring. Most of the new arrivals are Nigerians. (GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images) MONTREAL — As Nigerian asylum seekers flood into Canada across a ditch in …
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