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COVID-19 protocols: FG threatens to shut down NYSC camps Published The Federal Government has vowed to close any National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp where the state government does not comply with all the COVID-19 protocols. Minister of Youths and Sports, Sunday Dare, disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force briefing on Monday, NAN reports. Dare disclosed that over 700 corps members from the current batch tested positive for coronavirus. The cases are from over 22,000 participants tested. The minister said it had become necessary that all safety protocols be adhered to i...

During the fall of 2009, George Papandreou headed the ticket of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, known by its acronym PASOK, against the then‐​governing conservative party, New Democracy, in the Greek national elections. Papandreou ran on a platform that featured highly expansive fiscal spending. During a press conference on September 13, 2009, he was asked where he would find the money to fund his party’s spending proposals. His answer was that given in the above quotation, by which he meant that Greece had abundant fiscal space to increase government spending; he believed that ta...