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Northern Nigeria best place to do business – World Bank report
THE four years’ subnational series data on the Doing Business in Nigeria (DBN) 2018 by the World Bank, comparing…
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After two months, CCB replies FOI request, declines access to ministers’ asset…
REPLYING after two months, the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, has declined a request by the International Centre for…
World Bank to commit $22.5bn, AfDB $25bn, to fight climate change in Africa
BOTH the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) will provide 47.5 billion dollars for Africa to combat…
Global environmentalists, CSOs kick against privatisation of water sector
ENVIRONMENTALISTS from India, Philippines, United States and other nations of the world, on Tuesday converged in Abuja…
World Bank president resigns, to focus on infrastructural growth in developing…
Jim Yong Kim World Bank president on Monday resigned more than three years before the end of his tenure in 2022.
Kim,…
FACT CHECK: Scrutinising Osinbajo’s misrepresentation about free trade…
VICE President Yemi Osinbajo was not entirely truthful about the African Continental Free Trade Area during his…
FACT CHECK: Peter Obi’s eleven false claims at VP debate
VICE Presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, evidently gave out the greatest number of…
Oxfam report: Nigeria ranks 157 out of 157 countries in inequality scale
Nigeria is the least among 157 countries on social spending, tax and labour rights.
This was contained in a report…
Group to monitor spending of World Bank’s $611m grant for Nigeria’s out-of-school…
A civil society organisation, Connected Development (CODE) says it will monitor the spending of the $611 million (N221…
NUC: In 1949, there were only 210 university students… now there’re 2million
Abubakar Rasheed, Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), says the population of students in…