Tag: Ifeanyi Ugwuadu
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TNG Deal Breakers: NSCC and the reimaging of senior citizens’ care
The National Senior Citizens Center seem to have hit the ground running since it was constituted about two years ago. It was constituted in 2021 after the 2017 Act came into force that gave it powers to among others standardize, and regulate caregiving in Nigeria.
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TNG Deal Breakers: The age of the seniors and the demands on society
The DNA of all living things, among which the human species ranks the most highly developed, stipulates birth, growth and death. The transitions are what we describe as childhood, adolescence, youth, and adulthood. Within the same transition of adulthood, there are various transitions leading to old age. Generally, 70 years is adopted worldwide as the…
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TNG Deal Breakers: The 2023 election budget and spending deal
It is often confusing to pin down the government’s expense figures or differentiate budgets from actual spending. The Nigerian government, like most African countries, especially enjoy the distinction of either having zero accountabilities or at best presenting opaque accounts on their spending. It is rather a well-known secret that unspent budgets that are cash backed…
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TNG Deal Breakers: The Decade of the Ocean and World Meteorological Day
In two days, the event marking World Meteorological Day will hold worldwide. Precisely, March 23, 2023, is this year’s meteorological day. The short form is WMD! Certainly not Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). But our mass ignorance about the nature of this planet, Earth has weaponized against humankind in such proportion that our own devised…
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TNG Deal Breakers: How Nigeria can incentivize agriculture for food sufficiency
China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and a host of other Asian countries with large populations produce enough grains like rice for local consumption and ship the rest – perhaps of doubtful quality, to Africa, with Nigeria as the main destination. The government of the day and in the past appear just satisfied with this situation.
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TNG Deal Breakers: AfDB’s US$520m Agriculture funding and Priorities of Export Processing Zones
The figures peddled by Nigeria’s export processing zones regulator are quite exciting. On the face of it, one could conclude that Nigeria has made landmark milestones on its economic development frontiers. However, the underlying ratios in terms of well-known Nigeria’s comparative advantages – or yet-to-be-developed advantages – do not give a picture of commensurate progress…
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TNG Deal Breakers: Earthquakes: Today’s Turkey, Syria and elsewhere, but it cannot happen in Nigeria?
Every day we read about the phenomenal human lives wasted since the massively destructive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, a country that has recorded large-scale calamities from wars it waged on itself. The death toll was 34,000 at the beginning of this week and hopes are gradually dimming on possibilities of digging out more survivors.…
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TNG Deal Breakers: 2023 flood forecast: Awaiting another cycle of calamity
Singing this childhood lullaby to adults smacks of irresponsibility or simply childishness. Because, certainly, it will rain. And it rains with indifferent ferocity, taking along with it all that stands in its way, including human beings. It is a calamity officially predicted. But unfortunately without any resilient mitigating plans.
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TNG Deal Breakers: Nigeria’s 2023 top risks, shocks and national preparedness
Yet again, the year 2023 retains much of the woes that had plagued the country in the past five years in terms of the risks it faces which some analysts describe as existential if it festers beyond this year without any strong remedial initiatives by the government.
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TNG Deal Breakers: Outlandish outbound medical tourism and drain on dollar revenue
At 415 Naira to US$1, Nigeria’s outbound medical tourism cost the economy 664 billion Naira or US$ 1.6 billion as of May 2022. These are the estimated official figures admitted by the federal government as money spent by Nigerians seeking healthcare overseas. Comparatively, while inbound medical tourist visit to the country was under 1000 in…