Judicial corruption constitutes a major challenge to anti-corruption work in Nigeria. The looters have repeatedly used their influence to manipulate the judicial process and system, to block and/or delay the arrest or prosecution of suspects.
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It was just after the publication that I came across a statement by Katsina State Governor, Dr Dikko Umar Radda, who said that his state had gone very far in terms of health delivery and that, bar Yobe State, it is the best in Nigeria.
The feelers from the field indicate agro-dealers short-changing the farmers by giving them cash in place of inputs, the political farmers camouflaging as genuine farmers, thereby hijacking the subsidies, the extension services are still ineffective, and many farmers are not aware of the program, among others.
We went to the waiting area of the hospital and waited to be called in to see her. She soon returned, holding a cup of her drink. She asked me certain questions and, after taking my vitals, sent me to go for a Spirometry Flow-Volume Test, known as Lung Function Test (LFT).
The fact that hunger is destroying the Country is infuriating and frustrating. The cost of a 50 kg bag of rice has skyrocketed, ranging from 60 to 77k, out of reach for the average Nigerian.
I did some tests in some private laboratories, and the results were normal. Then I went to NISA Hospital in Abuja where I was looked after by a pulmonologist, Dr James Agada. It is not a run-of-the-mill hospital and not cheap, moreover, I paid for VIP treatment. Yet, my case kept deteriorating till I became almost an invalid.
Senegal has over 30 languages, but Wolof is the most widely spoken one, with 80% of the population speaking it as a first or second language, and it acts as Senegal’s lingua franca alongside French. Unlike other immigrants, the Senegalese people are restless and hardworking, earning a living from multiple jobs in France but hardly seen in crimes.
he chickens, the saying goes, always come home to roost. But some people would prefer to be Shakespearean by quoting the insightful words uttered by Marc Antony in William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, “the evil that men do lives after them while the good is oft interred with their bones.”
The problem is that everybody in this country knows this is a lie and no sector of society regularly gets a minimum of 20 hours of electricity a day. You cannot build a new policy on lies and such a huge increase of tariff in the middle of the most severe cost of living crisis in Nigerian history cannot stand. The new tariff is also aimed at eliminating annual electricity subsidies of NGN1.14 trillion we are told.
As a result of insecurity, between February and March 2024, about 500 people were kidnapped in a series of mass abductions in Borno and Kaduna States alone. On February 29, suspected Boko Haram members abducted over 150 people, primarily women and children living in IDP camps.