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May 11, 2017

Ad hoc Experts’ Group meet on ECOWAS common tariff

The Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Government of Burkina Faso are organising an Ad hoc Experts’ Group Meeting on May 16-17 in...

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Amina Mohammed

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March 1, 2017

Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed resumes work as the UN Deputy Secretary-General

Underscored Sustainable Development Goals as critical for better future for all Following her appointment on December 2016, Ms Amina Mohammed resumes work as the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General. While delivering her first address as...

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Somalia

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February 28, 2017

UN Health Agency to Provide Support as Drought threatens 1.5 million Somalis

The United Nations Health Agency has recently reported that, less than half of the people in Somalia have access to basic health services, announcing that it is scaling up its response in the country...

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June 2, 2014

A nation’s sad trajectory

‘OUR HOPE FOR A NEW NIGERIA IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE OLD MAN IN THE PROVERBS WHO CARRIED HIS DREAMS IN A BASKET.’ By Doki Godwin Jeff Ph....

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News / Uncategorized

June 2, 2014

The north and its political elites (1)

By Segun Ohimeh Oruame Entrenched narrow Interest! That is the bane of development in northern Nigeria. If Walter Rodney were to be alive and had the opportunity to put the north of Nigeria in...

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Promising new drug to treat TB

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April 4, 2014

Promising new drug to treat TB

For the first time in nearly half a century, the world may be on the verge of adding a new drug to its arsenal against tuberculosis (TB) – one that would not only drastically...

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April 3, 2014

Helpers of the poor Civil society and all the missed points

Prof. BALA DOGO raises questions on how to tell the chaff from the grain among civil society organizations purportedly set up to help the poor. It is very common to find a plethora of...

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December 19, 2013

A walk well walked

Hannatu Musawa pays tribute to ailing Nelson Mandela, liberationist and perhaps, the most important personality of our era. Nelson Mandela is ageing and his ‘spirit and sparkle’ is fading, his wife has said, as...

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August 2, 2013

Northern Nigeria and her mythical realities

The problem of the north of Nigeria is the north of Nigeria writes Prince Charles Dickson “When a people have suffered for too long, they will drink fairytales on fairylands with insatiable gullibility.”...

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August 1, 2013

Nigeria and the political economy of backwardness

housands of young people in northern Nigeria have no hope for tomorrow In the political economy of backwardness (1), I focused on the analysis of Islam in Northern Nigeria and how compared to Malaysia,...

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