Solomon's Column

 Liberia President, George Weah has been called upon to declare a national emergency on the trafficking and use of hard drugs. This call was made recently by the Executive Director of a Non-Governmental Organization(NGO), Hope for Young People Inc, Ambassador Thomas Tamba Bundoo.  Ambassador Bundoo made the call during the launch of the report of a survey conducted by the NGO on drug addiction in Liberia, as part of activities in marking the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. “As the Executive Director, I cannot keep sitting and seeing my fellow young compatriots dying the way they are dying and my country losing manpower to drug addiction. In view of the above, I am kindly calling on the President of the Republic of Liberia, H.E Dr. George Manneh Weah to declare Drug Addiction as a National Emergency to help mitigate the proliferation of illicit drugs in Liberia and save the younger generation from losing their potential.” Transfer Money with Wise “It is

 The percentage payment of salaries to workers by the Ondo State Government shall have a bandwagon effect if it continues. This assertion was made by an Ex-Officio of the Oyo State Council of the Trade Union Congress(TUC), who is also a former chairman of the union in the state, Comrade Andrew Emelieze. ''The situation in Ondo state is very dangerous and it could have a bandwagon effect if allowed to fester. Workers are now left to the mercy of the Government suggesting that labor unions are asleep or no longer exist'', Comrade Emelieze stated.

Strangely, poverty alleviation and reduction seem not to be on the priority list of the state actors at all levels of government. The measures in the past years have failed woefully to empower Nigerians to be economically productive, with the sole focus of improving their quality of life. Poverty alleviation programs do not cut across all sectors of the economy, failing to adequately address the problems of low economic growth and high poverty incidence. Millions of Nigerians insist that beneficiaries of government advertised empowerment programs are not known to them. Transfer Money with Wise The insecurity everywhere in Nigeria has foreclosed any way forward in the agricultural sector. indeed, unemployment, access to affordable housing, satisfactory Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary health care delivery, quality education, potable water supply, and regular electricity supply among others, constitute the urgent needs of poor Nigerians, who are in the majority are beyond reach. And a re