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2024: FG to cultivate 500, 000 hectares of farmlands, boost local refineries

By Editor January 1, 2024 71 0

Key points 2023 was a tough year for all Nigerians Nigerians should rekindle their love and faith in the promise of Nigeria despite challenges FG poised to accelerate the pace of its service delivery across sectors 500,000 hectares of farmlands to be cultivated across the country to grow maize, rice, wheat, millet and other staple […]Continue Reading

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Poverty and Buhari’s victory in 2019 presidential election

By Theophilus Abbah February 5, 2023 391 0

Was it by coincidence that President Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the February 23 presidential election, defeated his opponent Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a result of poverty in Nigeria? Available data on the website of the National Bureau of Statistics shows that Buhari got overwhelming votes […]Continue Reading

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NBS collaborates with institutions on employment survey

By Editor November 29, 2022 135 0

By Daniel Adaji The Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Statistics, Prince Semiu Adeyemi Adeniran, has announced that the Nigeria Labour Force Survey (NLFS), which captures the state of employment in Nigeria, has undergone more notable changes from the previous rounds. According to the NBS boss, NLFS is a strategic […]Continue Reading

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63% of Nigerians live in poverty-National Bureau of Statistics

By Editor November 19, 2022 160 0

Key points Multidimensional index provides a holistic view of poverty beyond earning $1 per day The survey was carried out in 36 states, including the FCT Buhari promises to eradicate poverty in Nigeria Poverty is more prevalent in the North than in the South More Nigerians are poorer than previously thought. By Daniel Adaji The […]Continue Reading

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World Bank Approves Nigeria’s Identity Project

By Ele Ifah Sunday February 19, 2020 169 0

The World Bank on Wednesday (February 18, 2020) in Washington DC, the United States, approved Nigeria’s digital identity ecosystem project along with five others, aimed at assisting the country to empower citizens, especially marginalized groups, to access welfare-enhancing services. The National Digital Identity Ecosystem Project is focused on enhancing the national Continue Reading

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Boko Haram in Buhari’s speeches in 2015 and 2019 [Data and content analysis]

By Theophilus Abbah June 27, 2019 231 Post a comment

Presidential inaugural speeches give heads of states with a periodic opportunity to renew their social contract with their people. Carefully crafted and pored upon for, perhaps, weeks before their delivery, such political rhetoric are expected to leave sweet tastes in the mouth of their audience. Quotable quotes, take-away promises, renewal of hope, paradigm shifts and Continue Reading