Archive for July, 2007

Women Entrepreneurship as a tool for Economic Development in Nigeria

July 13, 2007

By Paul A. Adepelumi, Esq., Executive Director, African Centre for Advocacy and Human Development (ACAHD)

Nigeria holds the unenviable record of having her 85 million people of her 120 million people living in abject poverty. To control the this scourge, several Nigerian government have adopted and implemented various poverty alleviation programs dating back to oil boom [...]

Worsening spate of ritual killings

July 10, 2007

The chilling story of a four-year old girl. Timileyin Abiona, who was gruesomely murdered by ritualists in Ayetoro, Ogun State, is a reflection of a society that is fast becoming bestial. It also shows that despite the splashy press coverage and occasional police arrest and investigations of suspected murderers in the past, the obnoxious is [...]