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How Much Attention Is Being Paid To Pangolin Trafficking?

In a preamble to this article written below, Nigerians and others alike need to know much more about the challenges and dangers Pangolin Trafficking is doing to the world. In a news publication last year, 2021 by Vanguard Newspaper, men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) revealed that 1,104.5kg of Pangolin scales worth N1.728 billion were intercepted. The full news story is found in this link  Pangolin Trafficking in Nigeria Pangolins are mammals just like human beings. Pangolins have scaly body, and wrap up into a ball to protect themselves against predators. Pangolins are also called 'scaly anteater' because of their unending appetite for ants.  In further describing what Pangolins are, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) defined Pangolins as "animals which have no teeth. Pangolins pick up food with their sticky tongues, which can sometimes reach lengths greater than their body." Based on scientific findings and research, Pangolin family is further broken down into genus an

2023 Presidency: Which Of These 3 Party Stalwarts Will PDP Present As Flagbearer?

The 2023 presidency or better call it the 2023 presidential election is less than 15 months to today's date of Sunday, January 2, 2022. Nigeria's main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will try to dot all the i's and cross all the t's in order to return to the seat of presidency in 2023. Based on the current political realities in Nigeria, the only political party, which could prevent the PDP from winning the presidential election is the current ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Both the APC and PDP, are the two leading political parties in the country, as they have the machineries, structures and financial muscle to win the 2023 presidential poll, barring any unforeseen circumstances. Governor Nyesom Wike (L) and Governor Seyi Makinde (R) Coming back to whom the PDP would present as its flagbearer in 2023; some Nigerians may think it is too early to call for that, however, in politics for instance, the journey which would begin in so

Remittance And Nigeria's Economic Growth In 2021

Remittance is simply any money received on a particular transaction or transfer especially from diaspora by the government of a country. According to the The International Monetary Fund (IMF), "it stated that remittance is an inflow such as cash and non-monetary items which move through legal channels such as electronic wires or through informal channels such as money or goods carried across a country's border." Based on the definition of remittance, we have to know how much Nigeria got as remittance from available data. We will then find out the impact of remittance on Nigeria's economic growth in this current outgoing year. It should be stated here that economic growth could either be positive or negative, based on prevailing factors. In a data presented by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Nairaltytics, Nigeria got $4.28 billion and $4.92 billion as remittances in the first and second quarters of 2021 respectively. The remittance figures however, for the first