Damilola OJETUNDE

EIGHTEEN years after member-state of the African Union agreed to allocate 15 per cent of their annual budget to the health sector, Nigeria has continued to be a serial defaulter of this agreement. A healthy population is truly the best…
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THE number one and two citizens of the federal republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, will both spend N2,801,981,868 on cars, travel and feeding cost, details of the proposed 2019 budget…
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THE unemployment rate in Nigeria has increased from 18.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2017 to 23.1 per cent in the quarter of 2018, an increase of 4.3 per cent. According to the "Labor Force Statistics - Volume I: Unemployment and…
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PETER Obi, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP has claimed that the unemployment and underemployment rate in Nigeria rose from 24 per cent in 2015 to 40 per cent in 2018. Obi made the claim at the just…
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Ministry of Education; Ministry of Aviation, Nigeria Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) and National Agency for the Control Aids (NACA) have continued to deny Nigerians access to public information by not responding to Freedom of…
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LAURETTA Onochie, a media aide to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, distributed cash and food at his Sokoto rally held on Monday, December 3. CrosscheckNigeria, a…
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THE number of Nigerians that die annually because of cancer has continued to rise, but the problem lies more in the cost of accessing treatment than in any other factor. RISING cases of cancer and the cost implications of treatment are…
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ON Friday, September 7,  The ICIR submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Federal Ministry of Education. The purpose of the request was to obtain procurement details of contracts approved for the ministry by the Federal…
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THE Federal Government has placed  50 high-profile Nigerians suspected of corruption on travel ban. This was contained in a statement released on Saturday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba…
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ONLY about 73 out of 900 public institutions have submitted their freedom of information (FOI) annual report for 2017 to the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF). This statement was made at a one-day reform seminar on open government…
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