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Rawlings Legacy: Economic Reforms and Impact on ordinary Ghanaian LISTEN JAN 26, 2021 Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, a former Airforce Officer, who presided over the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) as Chairman and Head of State for 11 years, implemented many life-changing economic policies that defined Ghanas economic structures and aided its socio-economic development. It must be noted that most of those economic reforms were proposed and supervised by the International ...

TODAY January 23, 2021 Experts have advised the Federal Government to consider developing a policy that will specifically address youth development. Founder and Project Director at Regalo Hope Foundation Resource Centre, Chinenye Onuorah, gave the suggestion as part of measures to address economic challenges in the country, adding that youths are major forces in the promotion of economic growth and development. Onuorah, who was speaking on the sidelines of an empowerment programme organised b...

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...

Nigerians should diversify income sources to fight recession – Ex-President of CIBN, Ajibola Published 19 January 2021 In this interview with NIKE POPOOLA, a professor of Economics at the Babcock University and past President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, Segun Ajibola, speaks on the prospects and challenges of the Nigerian economy in the New Year Oil price has dropped drastically since COVID-19 emerged, thus affecting the government’s revenue. What does this portend for the ...

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...

ON THE GO Tuberculosis kills ‘over 162,000’ Nigerians annually The Nigerian Thoracic Society (NTS) says tuberculosis kills over 162, 000 people in the country annually.Advertisement Prince Ele, president of NTS, said no fewer than 430, 000 people fall ill... FIFA issues Blatter with second ban for six years Sepp Blatter, former FIFA president, has been handed a fresh six years and eight months ban from all football activities.Advertisement The football world governing body...

Is Nigeria Jinxed?, By Chris Adetayo 6 min read Given the reality of Nigeria’s history, and its serial failure to maximise opportunities arising out of crises, it is perhaps not out of place to argue that the country is jinxed. Leaders, civilian and military, from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, have come and gone. But the country continues to take a step forward and two backwards. The question seems unreasonable, maybe even dubious. To ask if a nation, more than 6...

ON THE GO AFCON qualifier: Tickets will not be sold for Eagles, Lesotho clash The Lagos state sports commission (LSSC) has announced that tickets for the match between Super Eagles and Lesotho will not be available to the public but an invited few in... New Zealand approves paid leave for couples who suffer miscarriage New Zealand’s parliament, on Wednesday, unanimously approved a law that would give couples who suffer a miscarriage or stillbirth three days of paid leave.  ...

A prosperous future December 23, 2020 For many on the African continent, Covid-19 was not even the only public health emergency of the past year. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, people were also faced with the re-emergence of Ebola and a new measles outbreak. In Nigeria, a yellow fever outbreak detected in early November already claimed dozens of lives. In Cameroon, an outbreak of cholera in September killed at least 90 people. As our governments struggled to efficiently...

Nigeria has what it takes to achieve first-world development, argues Olisakwe Okafor With the recent protests by youths demanding an end to police brutality and also demanding for better standards of living, it is relevant to explore ways of achieving rapid development and first-world development status for Nigeria within the 2020s decade. The nation’s various governments have published many development plans with the intention of transforming the nation into a first-world country. However, w...