Where is our shame? Where is our collective responsibility? Allah Ya Isa!
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has claimed that 76 percent of individuals who encountered bribery requests in the Northwest region resisted recording highest refusal rate among Nigeria’s geopolitical zones as an indication of growing resistance to bribery in the region, while 70 per cent of Nigerians who were approached for a bribe in 2023 refused to comply nationwide.
Our country is seen as the giant of Africa in trade, commerce and culture but now bears another title, the emerging epicentre of lifestyle diseases as traditional eating patterns give way to fast food, and custom practices yield to sedentary routines, Nigeria is topping the charts for lifestyle-related diseases.
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Katsina Zonal Command, in an exercise that took place in Katsina on Wednesday, at the special refuse dump provided by the state’s emergency management agency at Barawa, in Batagarawa local government area of the state has buried bales of used clothes seized for more than four years.
Whatever the case, the questions by the average man remains, “How can this Budget build our future?”. The poor, the women, the children especially the Almajiris who depends on begging to survive everyday, without a place to call their home, no future, no voice and no vision of anything good in sight.
