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- Let’s talk about the President’s new scheme to allow citizens in gold-rich areas, to profit from gold-mining.
Here's today's #BigHardFact:
The Federal Government says authorities in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and The Gambia all agree with it that the WASSCE exams should be postponed again.
Should the WASSCE Exams hold?
#HardFacts | Sandra Ezekwesili
Let’s talk about the NDDC hearings at the Green Chamber yesterday. Pondei fainting. Akpabio implicating Reps, and the ICPC declaring one of them wanted.
- Then let’s talk about exam malpractice. The Cable just published an undercover investigation into a secondary school that helps students cheat.
- And THEN, let’s talk about politicians in Ekiti caught on video swearing oaths of loyalty to Ayodele Fayose.
#HardFacts | Sandra Ezekwesili
According to the 2006 Census, 1% of men and 4% of women have been widowed, while a 2018 World Bank report puts the numbers at 1% and 9% respectively.
Let's talk about the Commissioner of Police in Rivers defending the blockade of Joi Nunieh’s home.
- Then let's talk about SARS being accused of torturing a man in their custody to death. Why was he arrested, he was charging his phone in a hotel they raided.
- And then, let's talk about a couple who say Police abducted them on the highway and tried to make them falsely confess to being armed robbers and cultists.
#HardFacts | Sandra Ezekwesili
- Let’s talk about hackers impersonating verified accounts on Twitter…. and about Facebook thinking about banning political ads. We trust social media for a lot of our information. How easily can that trust be exploited?
Here’s today’s Big Hard Fact: By the provisions of the NDDC Establishment Act, the Commission is funded with among other sources: 1. from the Federal Government, the equivalent of 15% of the monthly statutory allocations due to states from the region; 2. 3% of the total annual budget of any oil company operating in the region 3. 50% of funds due to member States from the Ecological Fund.
#HardFacts | Sandra Ezekwesili
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