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As Nigeria joins the global community to celebrate 2021 World No Tobacco Day, Nollywood celebrities in Nigeria, Monday, have pledged to stop the promotion of tobacco products in Nigerian movie scenes ....
By Gabriel Ewepu and Alice Ekpang A Non-Governmental Organisation, known as Hipcity Innovation Centre, on Tuesday, called for grassroots inclusion in budget preparation and implementation and also for the federal government to adopt a co-productive approach for budgeting and planning in the rural areas. The Executive Director, Hipcity Innovation Centre, Bassey Bassey, made the call in Abuja, at the premiere of a documentary produced by the organization titled ‘Echoes of the People’ which intends to expose the pathetic plight of citizens in rural Nigeria. According to Bassey, the documentary is making grassroots people voice out their condition and also to be carried along in the scheme of things and not necessarily only to be recognized and remembered during political campaigns. ....
Corruption, major cause of insecurity ICPC On By Alice Ekpang, Abuja Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, has identified corruption as the most potent factor responsible for rising security challenges in the country. Owasanoye stated this while delivering a goodwill message at the opening ceremony of a capacity-building workshop for the House of Representatives’ Committee on Anti-Corruption with the theme, “The role of the legislature in the fight against corruption” organized by a German foundation, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in partnership with the House Committee on Anti-Corruption. Owasanoye noted that proper legislature, appropriation, oversight and scrutiny of public accounts would have prevented the drift into the kind of insecurity that presently engulfs the nation. ....
Corruption, major cause of insecurity- ICPC On By Alice Ekpang, Abuja Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, Thursday, identified corruption as the most potent factor responsible for national security challenges in the country today.
Owasanoye stated this while delivering a goodwill message at the opening ceremony of a capacity building workshop for the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption, which has as its theme, “The role of the legislature in the fight against corruption,” organized by a German foundation, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in partnership with the House Committee on Anti-Corruption.
He noted that proper legislature, appropriation, oversight, and scrutiny of public accounts would have prevented the drift into the kind of insecurity that presently engulfs the nation. ....