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Armenian Justice Minister Discusses Sector Reform with Ambassadors of Sweden, Poland, Lithuania
Armenian Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan today, in Yerevan, received Swedish Ambassador to Armenia Patrik Svensson, Polish Ambassador to Armenia Pawel Cieplak, and Lithuanian Ambassador to Armenia Inga Stanytė-Toločkienė.
Badasyan, according to a statement released by his office, greeted the ambassadors at the Ministry of Justice, noting that the meeting was a good opportunity to discuss issues related to a proportionate response to fundamental human rights violations.
Ambassador Svensson thanked Badasyan for the meeting, noting that democracy and human rights are areas in which there is a great desire to develop cooperation in the coming years.
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JAN 31 Figures from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) last week showed that the inflow of foreign direct investments (FDI) into Malaysia dropped by 68 per cent from US$7.8 billion (RM31.5 billion) in 2019 to US$2.5 billion in 2020.
Malaysia was the worst performer in the region and commentators identified the main causes as political instability following the change of government in March, the first movement control order (MCO 1.0) just afterwards and continuing corruption issues discouraging foreign investors. However, we should be cautious about jumping to such quick and easy explanations.
President Muhammadu Buhari s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, says Nigeria s latest poor corruption ranking is an indictment of Nigerians and not the current administration.
Nigeria ranked as the 26th most corrupt country in the world in the latest global ranking of public sector corruption, according to Transparency International s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2020 report released last week.
The report has given Buhari s critics more stick to beat him with over his administration s supposed fight against corruption.
The Federal Government, as usual, has pushed back strongly against the report, claiming that it was unfair to its anti-corruption efforts.
In his latest defence of the government, Shehu said during an interview on Channels TV on Monday, February 1, 2021 that the report is actually a judgement on Nigerians and not Buhari s fight against corruption.
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January 31, 2021
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Information Minister, Lai Mohammed and the presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu.
CNPP accused the duo of continuously misinforming Nigerians and turning the country into a laughing stock.
Secretary-General, CNPP, Willy Ezugwu, made the call in a statement on Sunday in reaction to the duo’s comments on Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index report.
Ezugwu described Mohammed and Shehu as major liabilities that have contributed to the poor image of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
He noted that the Buhari administration would have been perceived in a better light without the two.