Section 15 empowers the regulatory commission to refuse the registration of an NGO simply because “it is satisfied that the applicant should not be registered”.
The recent attack means that Funtua, known to be a haven for neighbouring villagers displaced by bandits, is no longer safe.
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.
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.
…In October last year, 2023, it was reported that a woman bathed her husband with hot oil while asleep over an argument. In the same year sometimes in December, a woman was arrested for a disturbing incident—allegedly pouring scalding hot water on her husband. The Lagos State Government through its Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) revealed 1,108 men to have reportedly been subjected to domestic abuse in six years.
For over a decade, NPFL, despite being the highest-level club football league system in the country, has continued to remain a shadow of its old self.
Ideas are powerful, transformative forces that shape societies, and we are championing the idea that liberty, individual rights, and free markets are foundational to a thriving and just society.
Nigerian police as an institution was revealed to be the most corrupt institution in Nigeria according to a survey released by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)…
Agbero informal taxes suck drivers their profits and rarely make it to government’s coffers
Aside from the apathy the government is demonstrating towards the health sector, other causes pointed out by medical experts are low infrastructural development, a low income rate, and the improvisation of medical equipment.
…the adoption of the e-voting was aimed at curbing election violence in NAKSS, and the students’ stress to allowing them to vote remotely and freely without fear or favour from their halls of residence.
Ahmed Adamu, a petroleum economist and associate professor at Nile University of Nigeria, condemned government’s borrowing plan and recommended cutting the cost of governance as a way to manage the country’s resources.
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