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THE Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (APBN), has suggested that for Nigeria to escape poverty and infrastructural deficit, Federal Government must engage Private-Public-Partnership approach, while local solutions should be found to funding and execution of projects.
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The main opposition United Future Party announced on Wednesday that it had decided to rename itself as People Power Party (PPP). Having been proposed during the party’s steering committee meeting earlier this week, the new party moniker was endorsed in a general meeting of party members. A total of 578 members from across the country
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By Henry Umoru PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has raised the alarm that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was facing very serious paucity of funds at present. Speaking yesterday in Abuja while declaring open a-five-day interactive session organised by the Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning Stakeholders on the details of the
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By Wofai Ibiang African leaders have consistently neglected their country’s health sector despite several pledges to improve it. A Brookings Institute report highlighted that as of 2015, Africa accounted for one percent of the global health spending, even though the continent bore 23 percent of the world’s disease burden. In 2001 the leaders of 52 African countries
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by Victor Young Organised Labour has given insight into why the struggle and fight against privatization is not just a fight to stop the sale of public services. Labour explains that it is also a struggle to make our communities and economies more equitable, protect the sick, unemployed, disabled, aged and vulnerable. It is a
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AN international summit on the human rights to water has called on Nigerian government and governments in Africa to reject the purported water privatization projects designed by the World Bank and its corporate partners.
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FRESH hope on Niger Bridge Passing through the River Niger Bridge from Asaba, capital of oil-rich Delta State to Onitsha, the commercial nerve-centre of Anambra State, penultimate Wednesday, it was difficult to recognise that major works are ongoing on the much trumpeted Second Niger Bridge, which groundbreaking was performed by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
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FORMER National President of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, NAGAFF, Eugene Nweke has called on the management of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, to enter into partnership with operators in the private sector to provide scanners for the ports and other entry points in the country.
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OUR Water Our Right Coalition has challenged Lagos State government to make public details of its multiple public private partnership, PPP, contracts on water projects, which it alleged were introduced “through the backdoor.”
Read MoreMr Jide Oke, Secretary, Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Nigeria Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), has identified policy inconsistency as a hindrance to the success of Public/Private Partnership (PPP) schemes.
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