Richard Naidu
10 July, 2021, 2:00 pm
Attorney General and Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum speaking at the 2019-2020 National Budget Consultation in Lautoka. Picture: REINAL CHAND/FILE
We’re back to the feverish annual lead-up to the delivery of the national budget.
Most of us have other things on our minds – specifically how we will survive COVID-19 with a health system in collapse, escalating virus numbers and no idea about when things will improve.
Our political leaders appear sporadically (from whatever planet they have decided they will inhabit during the crisis) to lecture us on why the spread of the virus is our fault.
Press zooms in on government’s reaction to planned asylum to IPOB members, others Nigeria-Press-Review April 21, 2021 to 09:21 269 APA – Lagos (Nigeria) The reaction of the Nigerian Government to the plan by the United Kingdom to offer asylum to “persecuted” members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra is one of the trending stories in Nigerian newspapers on Wednesday.
The Punch reports that the Nigerian Government on Tuesday expressed anger over a plan by the United Kingdom to offer asylum to “persecuted” members of the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.
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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is to receive the recommendations of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group on how to revamp the economy soon, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said on Tuesday.
She disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja where the NESG presented the recommendations that were put together from its 26th National Economic Summit.
“We will transmit the recommendations to the President and in deed make the report of this summit available to the Federal Government,” Ahmed stated.
She further stated that the government would put in place policies that would ensure the implementation of the recommendations in ministries, departments and agencies.
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FIJI POLICE THREATEN STRIKE OVER PAY Submitted by admin on Fri, 12/20/2002 - 00:00
SUVA, Fiji (Radio New Zealand International, Dec. 20) - Fiji will be in danger of becoming a Mecca for criminals if regular officers and special constables of the police force go ahead with their plans to stage a strike.
The Daily Post quotes an officer as saying the strike could start as early as Monday if no concrete action is taken to better their pay and working conditions.
He says police have been holding meetings and a strike is the best option they have come up with.
The officer says working without pay, especially while serving on special operations, and catching buses and taxis and paying from their own pockets while attending to calls for help were a common practice for police officers.