It had performed slightly better than many analysts (including those at the IMF) had expected. But it will need to grow even faster if it’s to affect the lives of regular people in any truly significant way.
But the regular person on the street does this with a different set of tools. Transport fares, food prices, and average wages are indicators closer to home for many of us. We can understand these more than the complex numbers that the experts deal in because these other measures relate directly to our wallets and meal tables.
Obafemi Awolowo was born in Ikenné, Western State, Nigeria, on March 6, 1909. He received his early education in the mission schools of Ikenné, Abeokuta, and Ibadan. Often he worked at odd jobs to raise money for tuition fees, and his entrepreneurial spirit continued to express itself in the various careers which he subsequently sampled: journalist, teacher, clerk, moneylender, taxidriver, produce broker. His organizational and political inclinations became evident as he moved to high-level positions in the Nigerian Motor Transport Union, the Nigerian Produce Traders’ Association, the Trades Union Congress of Nigeria, and the Nigerian Youth Movement, of which he became Western Provincial secretary.
The globe is currently fighting the corona virus pandemic which has claimed lots of lives and left families mourning the death of loved ones. As soldiers are at the fore during wars, medical practitioners around the globe have been at the frontline in the battle against the deadly virus to curtail its spread and aid the recovery process for people already infected. Doctors, Nurses, and other health officials in parts of the globe affected must have lost count as regards the number of nights they have slept like we do as human beings owing to the fact that they need to attend to corona virus patients in health facilities; putting their lives at risk to see the world conquer the virus. It is necessary to emphasize the fact that the fight against the pandemic is a collective one, thus, health workers need all the help they can get from the globe in this fight.
Nigerians are soup lovers. Each ethnic group has its own soups. These soups are usually served with one form of Swallow or the other. This combination of Soup and Swallow is what Nigerians consider a full meal. Eba, fufu also known as loi loi, pounded yam, Amala, semo are some examples of Swallow enjoyed by Nigerians.
Abia is a state in the southeastern part of Nigeria. The capital named Umuahia. Aba is another major city in the state standing as one of the industrial cum commercial nodes in the Southeastern part of Nigeria.