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The reforms recommended by the International Monetary Fund, IMF, have not effectively solved the problems faced by African countries.

Where reforms have tended to work in certain instances, leading to an improvement in the balance of payments, the mass of the people have borne the brunt.

A farmer at the protest encampment at Delhi’s Singhu Border carries the flag of the All India Kisan Sabha, 21 November 2021. Subin Dennis / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 19 November 2021, a week before the first anniversary of the farmers’ revolt, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi surrendered. He accepted that the three […]

Osinbajo, El-Rufai, Wabba, others proffer solutions to cost of governance in Nigeria Published Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday said Nigeria must work out the modalities to force down the cost of governance. The VP was the keynote speaker at the Rauf Aregbesola Colloquium, an annual event to commemorate the former Osun Governor’s birthday. In his speech on the theme: “Government and Big Development: Realities and Solutions for Nigeria”, Osinbajo noted that the collapse of socialis...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has commended Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State over his efforts in ensuring security, good governance, and infrastructural development in the State. Bello’s Chief Press Secretary, Mohammed Onogwu, made the meeting public in a statement on Sunday evening, NAN reports. Obasanjo commended Bello for his good works and urged him to sustain the efforts. Onogwu said the parley between the governor and Obasanjo ended with fruitful di...

Daily Post Nigeria Published One general characteristic that marks out Nigeria’s current government is the inability of all the relevant arms of government to be up and doing in the critical area of maintaining global best practices in terms of accountability, probity and transparency in public finance. These qualities are the democratic benchmarks that marks a Country out as a responsible constitutional democracy. Closely following the above, is the illogicality and fallacies being bandied a...

The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has blamed the current security challenges facing Nigeria on the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), an IMF policy under the military leadership of then Head of State, Ibrahim Babandiga DAILY POST reports that Nigeria has lately been hit with insecurity of a high magnitude, a situation that has now worsened with the endless abduction of school children in the Northern part of the country. He also did not spare power distribution c...

The Director General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has blamed the insecurity challenge facing the country on the outcome of “Extreme-Poverty” planted in 1986 by the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of the Ibrahim Babangida regime.

By Sean Tembo – PeP President 1. Every well-meaning Zambian is agreeable that things are very bad right now. The economy is crumbling with companies closing operations almost every day. The prices for goods and services are increasing on a weekly basis. There is a total breakdown in the rule of law whereby ruling party cadres are more powerful than the Police or the Military. Corruption in all its forms has reached unprecedented levels. In other words, President Edgar Lungu has failed to pro...

Posted on January 12th, 2021 Garvin Karunaratne, PhD in Non-Formal Education & Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University Formerly of the SLAS- Government Agent, Matara in 1971-1973.  A Country that is saddled with a massive unsustainable foreign debt- as much as $ 56 billion, the servicing of which requires some $ 4 billion annually, where the outlay required for imports far outweighs the value that can be realized from exports, where the normal inflow of doll...