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COVID-19: Nigerian Govt Converts Hotel To Isolation Centre, Over 120 Staff Disengaged

The effect of COVID-19 appears to be a huge price the Nigerian state and its citizens are paying in an unpleasant way as both the state and individuals are adversely affected. In an effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigerian government had taken over and converted Capital Global Apartment, a hotel located at the …

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Extra: Anambra govt N20 million health centre

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Anambra state has constructed a mini health centre for N20 million at the Uhuowelle community in Okija area, in what appears to be an example of corruption that has helped undermine the county’s ability to provide infrastructure, particularly in the area of health and education. A senior official of the Public and Private Development Centre …

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Extra: N15 million Imo lawmaker classrooms block

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Mr. Emeka Chinedu, a lawmaker from Imo state has built a three classrooms block for N15 million as his constituency project. The lawmaker in the year 2020 nominated the construction of three classrooms block in Oboama Secondary school, Ezinihitte Local Government Area of Imo State as his constituency project. The Federal Government had since in …

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Imo lawmaker claims a single borehole, toilet cost N15 million

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Despite the claim that a single borehole and a toilet cost the sum of N15 million Mr. Emeka Chinedu, a federal lawmaker from Imo State has since abandoned his constituency project. Mr. Chinendu, a federal lawmaker at the House of Representatives had nominated the construction of a public toilet and a borehole at Nkwo Mbaise …

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Special Report: How COVID-19 forced hotels disengage workers

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As Nigerians and their government often watch out for the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) updates on COVID-19, it is not sure whether the Nigerian state has any effective mechanisms to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on the Nigerian households and begins the process of pro-poor policy and social safety nets that will alleviate …

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N64.2 million WAEC office building abandoned

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The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) office building has been abandoned despite the sum of N64.2 million allocated for the purpose by the Federal Government of Nigeria in the year 2020. The Federal Government in the year 2020 allocated the sum of N64, 265,824 for the construction of WAEC office in Jalingo, the Taraba state …

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Extra: Ministry of Works to spend N1 billion supervising projects

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The Federal Ministry of Works has allocated a whopping sum of N1 billion for the supervision of projects in the year 2021. An amount the ministry has since made provision in its 2021 budget. The ministry that is under the supervision of Mr. Tunde Fashola, the former Lagos State Governor, said the money will be …

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Contractor forces principal to sign N50 million uncompleted constituency project

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The Principal of Government Girls Day Secondary School Kafur in Katsina state has disclosed how the contractor handling a construction of N50 million project in her schooled wanted to force her sign off an uncompleted project as having been completed. The federal government had last year through the Economic Recovery Growth Plan (Consolidated Capital Project) …

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Special Report: COVID-19 Ended Marriages, Destroyed Homes

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The economic impact of COVID-19 did not only result in some persons losing their jobs and not being able to provide for their families, but led to bringing marriages to an end and destroying homes. This is even as those affected by the family breakups are recounting their losses and struggling to survive the predicament. …

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Water Resources Ministry builds a single sanitation facility for N123.3 million

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The Federal Ministry of Water Resources in what appears a brazen corruption has built a single sanitation facility in Taraba state for the sum of N123.3 million. In what appears a shocking example of contract inflation, the Water Resources Ministry under the COVID-19 intervention programme said it constructed one Sanitation and Hygiene facility at a …

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