Tag: Citizens
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Travel advisory: Australia cautions citizens to avoid Nigeria
The Australian government has cautioned its citizens to avoid Nigeria due to a volatile security environment marked by terrorism, kidnapping, and the potential outbreak of civil unrest. In a statement released, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) advised citizens to reconsider traveling to Nigeria, citing widespread insecurity and alarming crime statistics. “Reconsider…
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Citizens of a turbulent world in search of a direction – By Owei Lakemfa
IT was a multinational gathering which included 41 embassies. It was a trans-generational assembly which comprised diplomats of the 1960s and 70s, activists of the 1980s and current students, mostly from Bingham University, Keffi. Also in the assembly were government officials, labour leaders, writers and academics.
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Palliatives: Fuel subsidy removal creates hardships, pushes citizens further down poverty line – Don
A university don, Mr Godwin Kwalbe, has advised government at all levels against cosmetic approach to addressing multidimensional poverty affecting a huge population of the country.
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FRSC plans “operation show readiness” for citizens
The Federal Road safety Corps (FRSC) says it will venture into value addition by organising an operation tagged “Show of Readiness” to ensure all citizens are involved in saving lives. The Corps Public Education Officer, (CPEO) Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM), Mr Bisi Kazeem
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UK: Sudan evacuation ‘potentially impossible’ once ceasefire ends
British evacuation efforts in Sudan will be “potentially impossible” once a ceasefire ends, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said. Cleverly said there is no guarantee of further evacuation flights once an agreed halt in fighting expires on Thursday night.
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Kosovo citizens to travel to EU without visa
Kosovo citizens will be able to travel to the European Union without visa from 2024 at the latest after the European Parliament gave the green light on Tuesday. The vote by the EU legislature in Strasbourg, France, was the last legal step required to grant visa-free travel to Kosovo citizens after member states gave their…
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Election bureaucracies, Office of the Citizens and the future of democracy in Nigeria – By Samuel Orovwuje
For the first time in two decades, young Nigerians came out in droves to elect a new government. They were at the forefront of a critical mass rising up against treacherous politicians and their collaborators.
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Ekweremadu: Nigerian laws should protect citizens from exploitation – Lawyer
A Lagos-based Legal Practitioner, Mr. Jide Ologun, on Friday called for stronger institutions and implementation of Nigerian laws to protect citizens from all forms of exploitations for a better nation. Ologun, a constitution lawyer, made the call while speaking with NAN in reaction to the conviction of the former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ike…
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Warning Alert: America to evacuate officials from Nigeria
The United States government has given approval for the evacuation of its officials and their families from Abuja and other areas prone to attacks in the country. The US State Department announced the approval of the evacuation in its updated Nigeria travel advisory on Tuesday evening.
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Office of the Citizen: Beyond ritualised incantations and political campaigns – By Samuel Orovwuje
Political campaigns kicked off a few days ago to sell political parties’ manifestoes and their candidates to the Nigerian people. Expectedly, blaring and discordant debates will be taking place across the country with intentional lies to gain resonance with the splintered electorate while a consolidated generalised atmosphere of capacity and competence to fix Nigeria will…