#palliatives

“What do we really want from philosophy and religion? Palliatives? Therapy? Comfort?

Do we want reassuring fables or an understanding of our actual circumstances?

Dismay that the Universe does not conform to our preference seems childish. You might think that grown-ups would be ashamed to put such disappointments into print. The fashionable way of doing this is not to blame the Universe-which seems truly pointless-but rather to blame the means by which we know the Universe, mainly science.”

-- Carl Sagan

President Bola Tinubu has written to the National Assembly seeking amendment to the 2022 supplementary appropriation act to allow the Federal Government source N500 billion for palliative to cushion the effect of the subsidy removal. President Tinubu Writes NASS Seeks N500bn For Palliatives In a letter addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, and read during…

Civil Society Groups Tasks FG On Legislative Framework For Covid-19 Funds Management

  By Zakaa Lazarus, Abuja. Civil Society Organizations under the auspices of Women Advocates Research and Documentation centre ,(WARDC) BudgiT, among others have task the federal government to design a legislative framework to manage Covid-19 funds and donations. The group in a policy brief signed by the Executive Director, Women Advocates Research and Documentation centre, Dr. Abiola Akiyode –…