Rising costs of living is one evil that must be tamed by all means possible because of its capacity to destroy quality living, and difficulty in keeping up with the basic necessities of life such as access to medicare, good nutrition, housing, clothing, transportation and utilities. In any country experiencing rising costs of living, even the middle- and high-income classes are not spared. Their incomes become barely sufficient to take care of their daily needs, they can no longer set aside part of their incomes to save or invest, and several indulgence like vacations become luxuries.
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President Bola Tinubu said a sustained collaborative approach is significant in the fight against poverty in Nigeria and the world at large.
The creator of Blue Economy, Prof. Gunter Pauli, who hailed President Bola Tinubu for creating the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, has said the policy was overdue considering the abundant opportunities in Nigeria.
Those who think and believe that Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian President, will improve his country’s economy by creating jobs and reducing poverty will remain in the eternal wish as that will not happen under him. Tinubu makes no pretence about his alignment with the neoliberal model of development. His policies support a naked neoliberal capitalist system. And the economists and free market fundamentalists have continued to hail him as a man with the big balls to have followed that path.
The book: “Tenderly Moulded through the Kiln (2023, Impeccable Publishing),” tells the story of Professor Fatai Adeniyi, the current Deputy Provost, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. Published on his 50th birthday, the book discusses his triumph over the vagaries of life, his victory over poverty and lack in his journey of life. And it is written by his very elegant wife, Dr. Yetunde Adeniyi.
He spoke Thursday during a Christmas party organised for the widows, elders and the aged by the State government in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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According to the report, “Budget fraud, procurement fraud, embezzlement of funds among other illegal actions, lead to failure in the delivery of services including education, water and health. People living in poor neighbourhoods have suffered so much that they consider poor service delivery as being good enough.”
He said this on Friday in Abuja at the close of a five-day study visit, which began on Monday, by members of the Benue State FRC.
The President, who spoke during an exclusive interview with a team of Arise Television Executives, led by its Chairman Prince Nduka Obaigbena, also confessed it has been extremely difficult fighting corruption under a democratic setting.
The protesters, under the aegis of the Peoples Alternative Political Movement, marched from the busy Ikeja Bus Stop to the Governor’s Office through the Secretariat to the Lagos State House of Assembly chanting protest songs.
The governor, who stated this during a special thanksgiving service to commemorate his second year in office, held at the Cathedral of St. Peter, Aremo, Ibadan, also promised to provide more equipment for security agencies.
The Minister, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, stated this on Thursday in Jos at the 2020 ITF Merit Award ceremony.
It was the late economist, John Kenneth Galbraith, in the book: “The Nature of Mass Poverty,” who warned that: “Poverty is man’s (and woman’s) most powerful and massive affliction. It is the progenitor of much further pain – from hunger and disease on to civil conflict and war itself.” In our case in Nigeria, beyond our self-inflicted ethnic and religious conflicts, poverty is also at the root of all the kidnappings, abductions and banditry.
The governor spoke during a special two and a half hours live programme aired by the network service of the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State, titled: “The Governor Explains.”
Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said Buhari gave the assurance in a message to mark the 2020 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
President Buhari said this on Monday in his remarks at the Joint Executive-Legislative Leadership Retreat, held at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja.
An estimated 2,000 people enter Lagos every day, many ending up in informal settlements like Obalende. It was founded as an artisan village in the late 19th century by immigrants from a prominent ethnic group as this remains largely disputed with different understanding emerging. As its population swelled and land ran out, they moved on to the water. Today, Obalende is home to people from a variety of riverine communities along Nigeria’s coast.
Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister, said this in Abuja at the inauguration of a Technical Committee for boosting commercialisation of the ministry’s research products to fast track the actualisation of Nigeria’s dream of becoming a self reliant nation.