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Nigerians to Pay More Tax Amid Collapsing Health Care System And Spike in COVID-19 Fatality

BY CHIMA NWAFO The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has approved additional tax with greater  impact on the lower income group hit harder by the crippling effects of the coronavirus,  which infection and fatality rates are rising even as medical workers express concern  over the inability of government to contain the ravaging pandemic. But the Federal  Government’s reaction to the plight of the frontline workers articulated during the  warning strike ofthe National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) does not show  sufficient understanding of the potential danger of the long neglected health delivery  system. On the state of affairs in the distressing healthcare system and the tribulations of  medicalworkers, Adelaja Adeoye told The Guardian: “The poor working conditions  are part of …

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Five Negative Implications of Overflowing Garbage Bins City Managers, Residents Must Prevent

By Chima Nwafo As the fatality and infection figures of the coronavirus…

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Why Flooding Remains A Recurring Menace In Nigeria’s Urban And Coastal Areas

By Chima Nwafo One Igbo adage translates: A scheduled war does not…

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Growing Menace Of Ecological Despoliation Federal And State Governments Brush Aside

Chima Nwafo From desert encroachment up-North, the deepening erosion in the South-east,…

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Anxiety Over Mystery Deaths In Rivers Amid Pending Environmental Issues As Governors Focus On Coronavirus

By Chima Nwafo Given the Nigerian government’s contempt for history public office-holders,…

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Nigeria’s Multi-Billion Dollar WASH Projects Foreshadowed Covid-19 Demands, Now We’re Learning the Essence Of Hygiene

BY CHIMA NWAFO Although water has always featured prominently in Nigeria’s development…

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Why Delta State Should Reject Musa’s Findings On Floating Dead Croakers

By Chima Nwafo Most Nigerians - young and old, men and women…

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Health, Economic Woes Of Floating Dead Croakers Along Delta Coastline, A Challenge To Niger Delta Governors

By Chima Nwafo Sometime in the mid-1980s, I read an American novel…

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