Tag: Policies
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TNG Review: People, policies that shaped Nigeria’s economy in 2019
With the year 2020 just a matter of hours away, Nigeria like other countries around the world is gradually counting its gains and losses in the outgoing year, 2019. While it can be said that the country barely made any appreciable progress economically, however, going forward, the challenges of a struggling economy still stares us…
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ASUU president tasks FG on pro- poor policies
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to come up with policies that would stimulate economic growth for the benefit of poorpeople during his next four-year tenure. The National President of the union, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria…
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2019: How Buhari’s stringent policies will affect Atiku’s campaign funds – APC
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday said the stringent policies put in place by President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure accountability of public funds will adversely affect sourcing of funds for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 poll. While the APC claimed that Atiku and his party faced…
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Sessions stands for outmoded, unjust law-and-order policies, By Jesse Jackson
BY JESSE JACKSON Attorney General Jeff Sessions gets it wrong. On core issue after core issue — civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, police reform and particularly mass incarceration — he is a destructive force. The United States locks up more people per capita than any country in the world. China, run by a brutal…
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Why policies suffer setbacks in Africa – Obasanjo
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday identified poor implementation of development policies by African governments as a big impediment to the prosperity of the continent. The former president spoke in Lagos at the public presentation of the book `Making Africa Work`. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the book was co-authored by Obasanjo, Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst…