The number of women living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) has been on the rise in the last 3 years, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicates.
Exactly 51 days from today, Ndi Anambra will go to the polls to elect a governor to manage the affairs of the state for the next four years.
The good people of Nigeria will remain very poor for a long time to come, the 2021 report of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) revealed. Nigeria’s chances of achieving Goal 1 of the SDGs, which is the attainment of zero poverty among its people by the year 2030, appear slim, as the country’s poverty headcount is soaring high still, instead of reducing.
The security budget features a 10.2% increase over the previous year, at ₦1.97 trillion::
Kidnappers abducted over 1,386 Nigerians from January to December 2019; This number increased in 2020 at 1,984 persons in just eleven months, estimating over ₦13.5 million in ransom between January – May; Abductions have bled Nigeria over $18 million in the last nine years (June 2011- March 2020); Experts have linked insecurity to Nigeria’s economic woes; In all, intelligence-based security initiatives and poverty alleviation programmes are a way to address the spate of kidnapping in the country.
