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Abandoned Clinics, Neglected Staff [I]: The Grim Reality of Healthcare in Sokoto’s Remote Areas

From infrastructural deficit, shortage of staff to ill-equipment, the primary healthcare system in Nigeria continues to remain in a sorry state. This stigma hampers healthcare service delivery in many communities across the country, particularly in remote areas. In this story, SHEREEFDEEN AHMAD reports the deplorable condition of some primary health centres in Sokoto State and its dire consequences on staff members and residents. 

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Oyo Farmers Bemoan Persistent Losses Amidst Continued Herder Attacks

Deadly clashes between herders and farmers have resulted in numerous losses of human and livestock lives, and the destruction of crops, farms, houses, and means of livelihood in Nigeria. A 2021 report by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies claims that violence involving pastoralist herders in West and Central Africa—as perpetrators and victims—has been surging in recent years.

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Economy

Why NBS’s Data on Labour, Poverty Must Reflect Nigeria’s Reality in 2024

Under the NBS’s new system, ’employed’ individuals are anyone in the working-age population who engage in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit… Government uses these types of metrics to determine what to tax and who to tax, and the data processing unit might just be laying a foundation for the government to trap the poor struggling working class into taxation.

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