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MIGRATION IN A CHANGING WORLD
- November 20, 2020
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Ernest Oji, Environmentalist, University of Jos, Nigeria. @November 2020 Human society is built on a systematic history of migration. Concurrently, migration is one of the most widely studied topics in the social sciences. It garners interest from its basis in human development, livelihood and existence. Migration is often studied from a sociological and theoretical
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GREENING NIGERIA ECONOMY THROUGH DIVERSIFICATION
- November 20, 2020
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Institutional and Sustainable Development Foundation By Ogwu Paul Okwuchukwu © November 2020 As a result of the unsustainable nature of the hydrocarbon economy, the effect of the covid 19 and the harmful effects of hydrocarbons towards the economy, we should start thinking of greening and diversifying the Nigerian economy through building a sustainable, productive and environmentally
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Special Report : Environmental Refugees
- August 2, 2019
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We are concerned at the rate the environment is rapidly degraded especially in the oil rich Niger Delta of Nigeria. The amount of investment in the region has not been proportional to the amount of revenue generated, but that’s not the bane of the issue. The environment has so degraded that livelihood for the inhabitants
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Institutional Building For Good Governance in the Anti Corruption Sector
- July 31, 2019
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Institutional and Sustainable Development Foundation. By Ogwu Paul Okwuchukwu © July 2019 About ISDF Institutional and Sustainable Development Foundation was found based on the growing role of strong institutions in ensuring the growth and development of a country. Africa and most countries of developing nations lack strong institutions to support social and physical
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OVERVIEW OF THE NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SECTOR
- May 10, 2019
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Institutional and Sustainable Development Foundation Research by: Ogwu Paul Okwuchukwu Edited by: Ogwu Paul Okwuchukwu © May 2019 OVERVIEW OF THE NIGERIAN EDUCATION SECTOR Introduction Background Policy Initiatives Composite Analysis Basic education: Low enrolment and low-quality teachers Secondary education: students’ poor performance records Universities: some specifics on the decline Challenges to the Educational Sector
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NIGERIA CONFLICT PROFILE AND MAJOR INCIDENCE
- January 5, 2019
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Institutional and Sustainable Development Foundation Research by: Ogwu Paul Okwuchukwu Edited by: Maife Lincoln Owolabi © December 2018 About ISDF Institutional and Sustainable Development Foundation was found based on the growing role of strong institutions in ensuring the growth and development of a country. Africa and most countries of developing nations lack
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NIGERIA PRESIDENT SIGNS THE NIGERIA FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT (NFIU) BILL INTO LAW
- August 8, 2018
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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit Bill into law. NFIU is the Nigerian arm of the global financial intelligence unit which was before now domiciled in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The new law sought to comply with international standards on combating money laundering, financing of terrorism and check suspicious
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CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER OF THE $322 MILLION ABACHA LOOT
- August 8, 2018
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The federal government says it will commence disbursement of the recovered $322 million Abacha loot through Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) to 302,000 poor households in 19 states. Tukur Rumar of the National Cash Transfer Office (NTCO), said this at a round-table on assets recovery organised by the Swiss Embassy in Abuja. The event was organised
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 6 OF 2018 PRESERVATION OF ASSETS CONNECTED WITH SERIOUS CORRUPTION AND OTHER RELATED OFFENSES
- August 8, 2018
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The Buhari administration have issued an executive order No. 6 titled Preservation of Assets Connected with Serious Corruption and other Related Offenses” In this order, the President is giving the prosecuting authorities the power to seize properties or assets. The Executive Order is not to forfeit people’s properties but rather temporarily deny access to the
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND FARMER HERDSMAN CLASH: THE CASE FOR AN INTRACTABLE CONFLICT AND A NIGERIA IN DISARRAY
- August 8, 2018
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Climate change has contributed to the massive migration of herdsmen to the middle belt and southern regions of Nigeria. The change in climate such as depletion in the ozone layer has led to heat waves, dryness of the rivers and lack of pasture for cattle to graze amongst others and has made life uncomfortable for
