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Vanguard News Translate Nigeria’s woeful international rankings expose its utter fragility On By Olu Fasan Take any cross-country global ranking, Nigeria is at,or near, the bottom of it. The latest is the inaugural Chandler Good Government Index, CGGI, published last week. The index ranked countries according to government capabilities and effectiveness. So, how did Nigeria perform? Well,woefully! Out of the 104 countries surveyed, Nigeria ranked 102nd, beating only Zimbabwe and Venezuela. In other words, Nigeria is the third worst nation in the world! But why should N...

White food bank worker is fired from her job after telling her black neighbor she is 'not the right color' and saying that she's an 'N-word' The woman - who is seen wearing a Hilary name badge - is heard shouting during the incident in Colonial Heights, Virginia: 'You are not the right color'  In the footage taken Thursday, she later replied 'yes you are' when the neighbor, identified as Laquetta Good, 30, asked if she was the N-word  A second video appears to confirm the police were called over the incident  Laquetta told DailyMail.com: 'I feel like a prisoner in my own home'

An Taisce lodges formal legal complaint about Food Wise 2025 with EU Commission An Taisce has lodged a formal legal complaint with the EU Commission in relation to the Food Wise 2025 strategy, the current 10-year plan for the agri-food sector. This comes as the coalition of which An Taisce is part of, Environmental Pillar, announced that it has resigned from the Agri-Food 2030 Strategy stakeholder committee. An Taisce has welcomed the Environmental Pillar in “denouncing the strategy produced by this committee as entirely inadequate to meet the social and environmental challenges facing us�...

[uam_ad id="317182"] RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to the 2020 Social Progress Index, Brazil is the 61st best country in the world in which to live, behind other South American countries Chile (34th), Uruguay (38th), Argentina (41st) and Peru (59th). The index developed by Social Progress Imperative, a U.S. non-profit organization, and released by Deloitte, points out that Brazil dropped 0.84 points in a 163-country ranking. Brazil scores low in the Education indicators, which were worse ranked than last year, followed by personal security, where extermination and torture policies were i...