Tag: Poverty

NOA Task South-East Governors on Building Institutions to eliminate Poverty, Unemployment

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Obiorah Anthony The five Governors of the South-East geo-political zone of Nigeria have been advised to work towards building functional institutions for the total elimination of poverty, unemployment and hardship that have bedeviled the people of the zone over the years. Barrister Charles Nwoji, Anambra State Director of National Orientation Agency (NOA) made the call at the second edition of the induction and orientation programme organized in Awka by the Mmaigbo Empowerment Foundation on Skills Acquisition and Exhibition for its new beneficiaries in the State and beyond. The NOA boss…

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Lions Club to spend N20m on projects in FCT community

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The International Association of Lions Clubs, Kubwa Chapter, a non profit organisation is to spend N20 million on projects in the area in the new calender year.Lion Ademola Afolayan, the 9th President of Kubwa Achievers Lions Club (KALC), made this known Saturday evening during his investiture and members of the executives for the 2022/2023 year in Abuja.Afolayan, who said that “it is a privilege to give back to the less privileged,” said the core projects of the club include vision, diabetes, childhood cancer, feed the hungry, environment and youth empowerment.“I…

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Stakeholders link security challenge in Nigeria to socioeconomic problems, bad leadership

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Col. Nelson Hambolu (rtd.) says the current security challenges in Nigeria cannot be unconnected to some socioeconomic problems the nation is faced with. He stated this, Saturday night, during a zoom meeting organised by the Nigeria Diaspora Network (NDN), the United State (US) chapter, and monitored by newsmen in Abuja. Hambolu, who retired in 1997 after 24 years in the Nigerian Army, said the genesis of banditry in the country needed to be unravelled before the best approach to end the menace could be activated. The expert in forensic science…

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