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Wednesday May 12 2021
President Museveni (with a stick) welcomed by locals during the 195-kilometre trek in Luweero District in 2019. The walk was meant to honour National Resistance Army (NRA) fighters. PHOTO / ABUBAKER LUBOWA
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5th Corruption index: Uganda slid by 5 places in the 2020 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index from the previous year’s ranking, suggesting public sector corruption is on the rise despite President Museveni’s tough rhetoric to end the vice.
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As the presidential flag bearer of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, Mr Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa themed his campaign on “securing the future” of Uganda, if re-elected.
Warri – Chevron Nigeria Limited has said that it will continue to invest in it’s operations so as to improve the environment especially in it’s area of operations .
Esimaje Brikinn, General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, PGPA disclosed this in Warri on behalf of Chevron Nigeria Ltd, during the 11th Annual General Meeting and Inuaguration of a New Set of Executive of the Egbema Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation (EGCDF) at Effurun-Warri, Delta State.
Esimaje who was represented by Sam Daibo, Area Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs urged the communities to work together to checkmate the activities of oil thieves and vandals who are responsible for most of the pollution in the waters. Esimaje , explained that CNL supports global efforts to reduce flaring and carbon emissions.
Inequality and inter-provincial marginalisation in Pakistan
Economic inequality is considered undesirable with a variety of economic and social consequences
The writer is an Associate Professor at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad
Economic inequality, defined as unequal access to wealth or income, is considered undesirable with a variety of economic and social consequences. On the economic front, the rising number of poor people causes lower investment in education and health, bearing a negative impact on the future productivity and economic prosperity of nations. Likewise, poverty or a squeezing middle class reduces demand for goods and services which, again, is detrimental to the economic growth of societies. In the social sphere, economic inequality is associated with high crime rate, mental illnesses, suicides, social unrest or class conflict between the haves and the have-nots. In a nutshell, vulnerability or inequality threatens the foundations o
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, presides over plenary at the lower chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja on November 24, 2020.
In light of the grinding economic impacts of Covid-19, Nigeria’s Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has engaged some international development partners on the Debt Cancellation Campaign Initiative (DCCI) under the umbrella of Conference of Speakers and Heads of African Parliaments (CoSAP).
During a roundtable at the National Assembly organised by the Office of the Speaker, the international partners expressed readiness to support the CoSAP debt cancellation drive for African countries.
Present at the roundtable was the World Bank’s Country Director in Nigeria, Shubham Chaudhuri, as well as delegations of other international development agencies operating in Nigeria, including the European Union; ECOWAS; the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP); the FCDO Partner
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, presides over plenary at the lower chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja on November 24, 2020.
In light of the grinding economic impacts of Covid-19, Nigeria’s Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has engaged some international development partners on the Debt Cancellation Campaign Initiative (DCCI) under the umbrella of Conference of Speakers and Heads of African Parliaments (CoSAP).
During a roundtable at the National Assembly organised by the Office of the Speaker, the international partners expressed readiness to support the CoSAP debt cancellation drive for African countries.
Present at the roundtable was the World Bank’s Country Director in Nigeria, Shubham Chaudhuri, as well as delegations of other international development agencies operating in Nigeria, including the European Union; ECOWAS; the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP); the FCDO Partnership to Engage, Reform an