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Generations of underage girls in the community have been used as “collateral” for loans or payment for debts

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Deeply rooted in customs and fuelled by poverty, forced and child marriage practices continue to push millions of children out of school in Ebonyi and Cross River states.

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Logging and other biodiversity-threatening activities are prohibited under the National Park Service Act and relevant state forestry laws, except where expressly permitted by park authorities. But for about five years, logging has thrived in the Kainji forest reserve.

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A community initiative and advocacy by a socio-political group helped persuade the Oyo government to reopen 23 primary schools shut down for 10 years over security concerns.

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Generations of children who have never seen the world at peace are emerging from the decades-long cycles of bloodbaths in Plateau and Benue states which sketch a bleak future for them and set up the states for unending waves of violence.

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The findings of the federal government’s panel on Mr Nnaji align with this newspaper’s report, which exposed the then-minister’s certificate forgery scandal.

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Our findings on Justice Tsoho come amid heightened scrutiny within the judiciary by the National Judicial Council.

The post EXCLUSIVE: Federal High Court Chief Judge Tsoho operates undeclared accounts, violates code of conduct law appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

While billions of naira flow through government coffers and SUVs glide into private garages, pupils in Akwa Ibom classrooms sit on bare floors waiting for desks that were budgeted but never delivered.

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In three Akwa Ibom oil communities, families now live within metres of blazing gas flares that have turned night into daylight, poisoned air and water, and exposed the widening gap between Nigeria’s oil wealth and the lives sacrificed for it. 

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Expenditures were made outside legislative approval, several arms and departments of the Edo government under Governor Monday Okpebholo.

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