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Fulfilling Your Dreams Despite Disabilities Can Be Easy; This Nonprofit Shows How
SANGO, IBADAN: At age four, Adeyemi Adegboyiga was diagnosed with short-sightedness in 2003. Despite undergoing surgery to correct it, his condition did not improve. Instead, it developed into full-blown cataracts - the clouding of the eye's lens - in both eyes. Last year, with just one year left to complete his senior secondary education, his situation became so bad that he could not cope at the Lagos State Model College in Lagos where he was a student.
Cultism In Nigeria: A Theatre Of Blood And The Way Forward
AZUABIE, RIVERS: On the afternoon of a particular Wednesday in August 2017, Udobong ran as fast as his heels could carry him in one of the notorious neighborhoods of Azuabie, a densely populated slum in Port Harcourt Local Government Area of southern Nigeria's Rivers State. Pursuing him were six boys of about 20 years old, armed with guns, machetes, and axes.
Scaling The Entrepreneurial Culture That Sustains Nigeria's Southeast Region (PART II)
5 mins read By RICHARD ABAM 21:27 05/07/2021 | Updated 18:09 08/07/2021 Share this post This is the last article in a two-part series exploring the Igbo apprenticeship system. Read the Part I here. While the Igbo apprenticeship system continues to be a source of job creation and economic sustainability for the southeast region, economic fortunes in the broader Nigeria had continued to fall since 2014 when the prices of the country's primary export product, oil, began descending.
Magu, EFCC and President Buhari's lopsided war against corruption | By Momoh, Emmanuel Omeiza
If corruption were to be an academic field of study worthy of been awarded a nobel laureate, then the whole world need not travel far but come to the entity referred to as “Africa’s Giant” in their quest to understand the intrinsic nature and probably earn the highest degree of a doctorate.
President Buhari and the reality of poverty alleviation in Nigeria | By Momoh, Emmanuel Omeiza
“Poverty is a threat to human security anywhere”. The above quote by Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, aptly captures the current reality of things in the self-styled appellation of the entity regarded as ” Africa’s Giant”. President Muhammadu Buhari had yesterday highlighted the commitment of his administration in ensuring that over a million Nigerians are lifted out of poverty.
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