Alleviating Poverty in Nigeria By Anthony Maduagwu ( aka -Toniman ) The Nigerian government is once again embarking on another attempt to alleviate poverty. This present one looks like it is heading the same way the past ones headed and subsequently failed. Amongst the reasons why the past poverty alleviation attempts failed were - ( 1 ) the politics of personal rule - a distinctive type of political system in which the rivalries and
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by the residents of Maiduguri because of its strong opposition to Western education‚ which it sees as corrupting Muslims. Mohammed Yusuf established a religious complex that included a mosque and a school in 2002. Many poor families from across Nigeria and from neighboring countries enrolled their children in the school‚ which also served as a recruiting center for jihadis to fight the Nigerian State. In 2004 it moved to Kanamma‚ Yobe State‚ where it set up a base called "Afghanistan"‚ used to
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THREE YEARS OF GSM REVOLUTION IN NIGERIA By Ernest C. Ndukwe‚ Executive Vice Chairman‚ Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) INTRODUCTION ♦ Telecommunications is acknowledged as one of the most important infrastructures essential to the socio-economic well-being of any nation. ♦ The globalisation of world economy has further amplified the importance of telecommunications to the economy. ♦ The Telecommunication Sector is one of the fastest-growing sectors‚ and in terms of capitalization
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College LGBT Students Discrimination in Employment‚ Education and Community: Problems and Possible Solutions Alcantara‚ Ma. Romelie Azucena‚ Claire The Seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan (2006) once said that “Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty‚ promoting sustainable development and building good governance.” However‚ despite this and all of the actions done by the LGBT (Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual
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states there exist numerous ethnic‚ national‚ racial‚ linguistic or cultural groups. In other words‚ the majority of states are composed of more than one ethnic group. Sometimes these groups are not accepted as full members of this state or the nation‚ which it purports to be or presented‚ or who actually excluded from it. In such circumstance number of ethnic groups demands more rights and recognition that leads in many cases to ethnic conflict If not checked‚ ethnic conflicts are contagious and
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Topic: Controversies of Census Figures. Case study: Nigeria The first census was held in Nigeria in 1866. The colonial authorities conducted other census exercises in 1871‚ 1901 and 1911‚ whereas all these covered only the Lagos colony and in 1911‚ the southern protectorate. The first nationwide census involving the north and south were organized in 1921. There was also the 1931 census and the 3-year 1951-1953 census. The 1963 census was upheld but only because the Supreme Court ruled against
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INTRODUCTION The 2008 economic crisis affected African nations in the developing world in a very similar way. Nigeria suffered a fall in oil prices ‚ reduction in exports and a downward trend in the stock market whilst South Africa suffered the same effects but rather than crude oil they suffered in the fall of commodity prices. Policies to stimulate the economy are different in terms of trade where Nigeria is more free trade and South Africa became more protectionist after the crisis. The Nigerian economy
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PO377 ETHNIC CONFLICT AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE Week 7: Ethnicity‚ Nations and Nationalisms Lecture Outline Conceptual Approaches to Ethnicity: Primordialism vs. Instrumentalism History and Nature of Nationalism(s) Ethnicity as primordial and ethnicity as instrumental Critique of primordialism Critique of instrumentalism Primordialism vs. modernism Civic nationalism and ethnic or ethnonationalism The nation-state Summary Primordialism vs. Instrumentalism Ethnicity as primordial
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Eurozone Debt Crisis: The Exit | Subject: Money and Banking | Instructor: Dr. Nguyễn Thị Hoàng Anh | Name: Hoàng Trung Khánh Student ID: 1001036095 Class: K49CLC2 Eurozone Debt Crisis: The Exit Content I. The debate over salvation II. The narrow escape for Europe 1. Seeking for the cure 2. The half-finished dream of ‘Eurobond’ 3. The ‘Grexit’ plan 4. The return of Deutsche Mark III. The judgment time I. The debate over salvation The world
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The Eurozone Crisis Sagana J 11/18/2013 ECON 3860 Word Count: 1‚495 The Eurozone Crisis The Eurozone is a combined group of countries using the euro as their only currency. It was created in 1999 and currently consists of 17 countries – not all part of the European Union (Investor Words). Within the Eurozone‚ the countries follow a monetary policy and controlled by the European Central Bank (in other words‚ the ECB controlled the supply of the euro within the 17 countries). In
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