The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, yesterday, commenced a seven-day warning strike to push for the rescue of a Kaduna-based doctor, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who was kidnapped last December and has spent about eight months in the abductors’ den. The strike, which held across the country, left patients stranded and the doctors shunned work...
Since President Bola Tinubu assumed office in May 2023, Nigeria has seen significant increases in the prices of various essential goods and services, affecting the cost of living for millions. These hikes, attributed by the government to necessary economic reforms, have sparked widespread debate and concern, reports The PUNCH. While the govern...
•Students on campus When Elisha (other names withheld), a student in one of the public universities in Lagos State came home during a break, his father could barely recognise him, as though not sick, he was visibly emaciated, no thanks to malnutrition. On campus, the accounting education student told his inquisitive father that he was [&hellip...
Universities in the country are groaning under the yoke of high tariffs thrust on them by electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, which may see the 10 with the highest budgets spending over N75 billion on electricity this year. The 10 universities have a combined budget of N247.6 billion for 2024, reports Vanguard. Checks by our correspond...
•Pensioners and Tinubu The agonies of retirees from the Federal Civil Service appear to be getting worse as the federal government has failed to release funds for payment of accrued pension rights in the first half of 2024, H1’24, which ended yesterday. The FG had reneged for the full year 2023, FY’23, as no funds […]
•Bags of rice This is not the best of times for Nigerian families, who have had to adopt bizarre cost-cutting measures to cope with the recent hardship occasioned by the dramatic hike in the prices of goods and services. Several of them lamented that their income could no longer take care of their daily needs, […]
Most tertiary institutions in the country have hiked their fees by over 150 %, putting serious strains on the finances of parents and guardians who also have to contend with the poor state of the economy which has reduced purchasing power and savings. Checks by our correspondents in public universities across the country show that […]
It is two days to Christmas. For Christians and some non-Christians in most parts of the world, every December 25 is a day of celebration. It is a season that has always been characterised by joy across the globe. It is a period when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The season comes with […]
Many households are not finding it easy as the ability to purchase daily and basic needs is becoming a tall order for many amid rising inflation and falling incomes. The households, mostly those in the low-income level, have lamented that nearly 100 per cent of their earnings are now spent on food, whose prices continue […]
Despite raking about N15.8 trillion from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) in less than four years, the majority of sub-national governments are reeling in huge debts just as some are showing signs of distress. But the huge indebtedness, poor infrastructure funding and financial stress have not stopped mind-boggling profligacy...
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