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Stakeholders bemoan lack of due process in suspension of NPA MD Stakeholders bemoan lack of due process in suspension of NPA MD
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Stakeholders in the nation’s maritime sector have bemoaned the lack of due process by the Federal Government over the suspension of the embattled Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala Usman.
Speaking with maritime journalists, on Wednesday, in Lagos, the immediate past President of Women in International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA), Mrs Mary Hamman, explained that due process ought to have been followed in the suspension of Hadiza Bala Usman as Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).
Diverse Population Uses Nursing Homes Less
Since the 1980s, the share of the U.S. population over 65 has grown steadily. At the same time, the share of low-income older people living in nursing homes has declined sharply.
New research by the University of Wisconsin’s Mary Hamman finds that this trend is, to some extent, being driven by an increasingly diverse population of Hispanic, Black, Asian, and Native Americans. They are more likely to live with an adult child or other caregiver than non-Hispanic whites, due, in some cases, to cultural preferences for multigenerational households.
Nursing home residence is also declining among older white Americans. However, in contrast to the Black population, whites are increasingly moving into assisted living facilities. This creates what Hamman calls a “potentially troubling pattern” of differences in living arrangements that might reflect disparities in access to assisted living care or perhaps discriminatory practices. Notably, t