Nigerian states demand $2bn, end of fuel subsidy

Nov 19 2014 – 10:41am (The News Online) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: states want money from ECA The Chairman, State Finance Commissioners Forum, Timothy Odah, said that the Nigerian states want two billion dollars from the Excess Crude Account to enable them complete ongoing projects, as revenue allocations to them decline for the third month running. At the moment, the account has […]

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Ensuring Access to Safe, Affordable Toilet for All

BY SANDRA EGUAGIE Can you imagine a residential building without toilet? Can you imagine a school without toilets? Can you imagine a business Centre without toilet? Can you imagine not having a toilet? Can you imagine defecating in the bush? Can you imagine defecating in plastic or polythene bags and throwing it into the bush, school compound, open field, gutter, […]

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Curbing The Menace Of Climate Change

Kelly Ovie Umukoro 11/05/2014 11:02:15 Barack Obama, US President Recently, world leaders came together in New York to brainstorm on ways to tackle the challenges of climate change. President Barack Obama was among scores of world leaders at the gathering, which followed by days of mass demonstration in New York City in support of action to combat global warming. Among […]

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Addressing Human Rights Abuses in Nigeria

By CHARLES IYARE The history of human right abuses in Nigeria is as old as Nigeria, herself. This is because the creation of the nation, Nigeria, was an abuse of the fundamental human right of the various entities that make up the Nigerian state. The high level of corruption in Nigeria especially in the government makes it absolutely impossible to […]

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Concerning account number 80020796 and the Abacha Loot

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku I have on my table a letter written by the Attorney General of the Federation and Honorable Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and dated 24th May 2014. It is addressed to the Asset Forfeiture Money Laundering Section, Criminal Justice System of the United States of America. A perusal of the content of […]

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Communique issued at the end of a two-day workshop for selected staff of Port Harcourt City Local Government Council in Rivers State

The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) with support from Bread for the World – Protestant Development Service, organized a two-day workshop for selected staff of Port Harcourt City Local Government Council in Rivers State from Wednesday 24th – Thursday 25th September, 2014 at Aldgate Congress Hotels, Port Harcourt. The workshop with the theme “Building Capacity for Effective […]

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THE CORRUPT AND THE REST OF US!

By Kelly Ovie Umukoro My heart bleeds each time I think about the modus operandi of corrupt leaders in our society, we work very hard to inform the society about the evil of corruption everyday as anti- corruption agent but, this evil persist, the question is why? The issue of Corruption is not a recent one in Nigeria. Since the […]

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How Much Does Subsidy Cost?

victor emejuiwe (Leadership Newspapers) Sep 8, 2014 | Leave a comment In 2014 budget, the sum of N971 billion was appropriated for fuel subsidy; this is close to the annual sum appropriated for capital projects. Can this be the real amount paid to oil marketers as subsidy, for importing refined crude across the country? If this be the case, it […]

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WHERE ARE THE SUBSIDY THEIFS?

WHERE ARE THE SUBSIDY THEIFS? Have we heard the last concerning those that ripped the nation dry, from the petroleum support fund? Please we need to know. Perhaps a quick response to the question above will satisfy our curiosity. This question has become necessary following the new dimension in which discussions about petrol subsidy has taken. It has all the […]

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Managing Disaster In Niger Delta

Managing Disaster In Niger Delta By Igbotako Nowinta Last Modified: 07/21/2014 10:56:04 “In all of this, the civil society must continue to play its roles as the survival of democracy relies on the virility of the civil society. Civil Society must lead the campaign in favour of fiscal federalism and true federalism in Nigeria… We must continuously demand for political […]

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