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The story of OAU Ife and a Candidate denied admission after scoring 320 In JAMB. Few days ago, a student, Ruke Akor, went to Nairaland to complain about her being denied admission to study Medicine in OAU despite scoring 320 in UME. The story went viral and many other blogs latched onto it. Few days …
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This is why history is important. The failure to pinpoint the departure from the colonial economy post independence is evidence of lack of appreciation of the economic history of Nigeria. In Benin, post civil war the most a senior civil servant could aim for was a silver bicycle. Even the war economy did not alter …
NASS holds the purse strings of the national treasure. The Executive has the responsibility to deliver to the Nigerian people, budgets approved by NASS. The federal and states executives make financial and fiscal proposals called the budget to Senate and House of Representatives NASS and various State Houses of Assemblies SHA. The SHA and NASS …
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Home Secretary Priti Patel has proposed nothing less than a revolution within the Home Office in response to the Windrush Lessons Learned Review by Wendy Williams. In a statement to the House of Commons yesterday, which should be read in full, Patel outlined a five-pronged approach which, if actually implemented, would fundamentally transform the way …
With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left? This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 