President Muhammadu Buhari has charged state governors to ensure that they pay all the salaries owed workers before Christmas, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. The president gave the charge on Monday, when he met with the governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Many states are still owing workers several months of salaries and […]
President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank),Dr. Benedict Oramah, said in New York yesterday, that African countries should lay far less emphasis on grants and aid in order to pull themselves out of poverty, which has been their development bane over the decades. Delivering a lecture titled: “A Path to Making Africa Great Again,” at […]
A Nollywood actor and governorship aspirant for November 18, 2017 governorship election in Anambra State, Yul Edochue, has blamed increasing incidents of crime in the society on hunger and poverty. Edochie, who spoke when he met with the Anambra State Executive of Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC), said leadership is about fixing the problems and catering […]
Lagos state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday justified the massive investment of his administration on improvement of educational infrastructure and upgrade of curriculum to meet current realities, saying that education remains one of the critical tools to combat poverty and secure a better future for the state.Governor Ambode, who spoke at the Lagos House […]
As the federal and state governments are striving to face the security challenges facing the country, a cleric, Venerable Abiodun Oyindamola Oriola, the Provost of African Church, Owu Totoro Abeokuta has called on all tiers of government to as a matter of urgency stamped out poverty among Nigerians. Ven Oriola, who made the call at […]
A prominent feature of colonised people is the washing away of their important identities in the course of time. Even their selfbelief. Identity has much more to do with the intangible attributes of a people than with only their facial or personality peculiarities. Identity cuts deeper into the root and essence of a people. By […]
Nigerians should have a choice not only to jump from poverty to starvation, but also an opportunity to choose the prospect of prosperity, full employment, free tuition, freeways, and a full health care system in a functional democracy. That is the promise of my candidacy as an independent presidential candidate with policies and programmes for […]
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime” — Aristotle. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living” — Gail Sheehy. The seed that had been sown by elements of evil extraction in Nigeria had been producing fruits and the fruits have been poisonous ones. I am not […]