Report alleging N500bn offer to split S’South votes false, baseless – Jonathan
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has debunked a media report alleging he was offered N500 billion to contest against the presidential candidate of National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Peter Obi, to split South-South votes. Special Adviser on Media to Jonathan, Dr Ikechukwu Eze, in a statement in Abuja, described the publication as entirely false and baseless. […]
Nigeria Retains Africa’s Top Spot as 89 Students Get EU Erasmus Scholarships
Nigeria has retained its position as Africa’s leading beneficiary of the European Union’s prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s scholarship programme, with 89 students securing fully funded scholarships for postgraduate studies across Europe this year. The latest feat also saw 163 Nigerians admitted into the highly competitive master’s programme, reaffirming the country’s dominance on the continent […]
Why bottom-up policy formulation is delivering better results in FCT
By Jumai Ahmadu One of the greatest challenges of public policy in developing countries is not necessarily the shortage of resources but the disconnect between government decisions and the actual needs of the people. For many years, development planning in Nigeria largely followed a top-down approach in which government officials designed projects from their offices […]