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About eight years after a PREMIUM TIMES investigation uncovered how public officials collude with traders to sell free donor-funded mosquito nets to Nigerians, the practice is still rampant as Nigeria continues its battle against malaria.
With about 81,640 deaths annually from malaria, Nigeria accounts for over 20 per cent of the 400,000 annual deaths, globally, from the disease.
While there is now huge potential for a malaria vaccine, Long-Lasting Insecticide Nets (LLIN) have long been identified as one of the best ways to prevent the disease.
For years, the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in Nigeria has been coordinating the distribution of free LLIN across several states. The initiative is funded through donors such as the Global Fund.
Développement
24 March 2011, Washington D.C.
Dear Nancy, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is my great pleasure to be here, at the Centre for Global Development, together with my dear friend and colleague Nancy Birdsall. Being a member of the Board of the CGD is a badge of honor I wear with great pride.
Nancy is not only a friend and one of my heroes, she is also a regular of the OECD, where she visited only last year to give a fascinating presentation on the Cash on Delivery Aid approach developed by the Centre.
Allow me to focus on a critical issue for our Organisation: its role in the new international architecture. This is also a great opportunity to discuss some of our perspectives on the new architecture of global governance more generally.
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We must insist on inclusion of Ugandan engineers to promote industrialisation
Thursday April 01 2021
In the World Bank’s Science, Technology and Skills for Africa’s Report of March 2014 on improving the quality of engineering education and training in Africa, it was keenly noted that sub-Saharan Africa seriously lacks engineering capacity and relies heavily on imported expertise for two reasons insufficient output from training institutions, and poor quality education and lack of practical experience among graduates. Yet Africa also has pressing development needs that require engineers.
The report highlighted a number of reasons why the countries needed to put together their own pool of engineers among which included factors like infrastructure needing to be built in step with the region’s economic growth trajectory, including roads, bridges, buildings, airports, and harbours, industrial development should be accelerated, especially in manufacturing, so that the region be