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117m Bribes Paid Yearly In Nigeria – UN, NBS

December 7, 2019 8:08 am

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) yesterday, said that an estimated 117 million bribes are paid in Nigeria on a yearly basis.

Healthcare professionals, namely doctors, nurses and midwifes, and public utility officials are the two types of public officials with whom the largest share (31 per cent each) of Nigerians had at least one contact in the 12 months prior to the 2019 survey. Police officers came a close third, with 30 per cent. The 2019 corruption survey conducted by NBS and sponsored by UNODC shows a notable increase since …

38,000 People Die Of Tobacco, Alcohol In Sri Lanka Yearly

October 22, 2019 2:29 pm

About 38,000 people have been reported dead from the excessive use of alcohol and tobacco in Sri Lanka yearly, local media reports, quoting medical experts from the Sri Lanka Medical Association.

According to statistics from the Sri Lanka Medical Association on Tuesday, an estimated 18,000 people died from the use of tobacco and an estimated 20,000 from the use of alcohol in the island country.

Head of the Sri Lanka Medical Association, Anula Wijesundara, told the local Daily News that a person addicted to alcohol consumed at least an average of 3.5 litres of alcohol on a daily basis.

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Nigeria Loses ₦5trillion Yearly To Oil Theft, Reps Lament

October 3, 2019 8:09 am

The House of Reps have resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to ascertain the quantity of oil stolen on a daily basis and the people responsible for the theft within the country.

The Reps decision followed the adoption of a motion on oil theft in Nigeria moved by Hon. Chukwuma Umeoji who represents Aguata federal constituency, Anambra State.

Hon. Umeoji had stressed that Nigeria loses about ₦5 trillion yearly from oil theft, an amount which the government desperately needs to finance the budget.

The lawmaker noted that about 22 million …

Nigeria, others lose $1tr yearly to untidy firms’ ownership

June 12, 2019 12:46 am

The Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) yesterday said secret ownership of companies, especially in the oil, gas and mining sectors, was costing Nigeria and other developing countries about $1 trillion yearly. The revelation comes as the December 31, 2019 deadline for the most populous black nation to implement the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) beneficial ownership standard approaches.

Though it was acknowledged that efforts were being made by the Department of Petroleum (DPR), NEITI, Mining Cadastre Office as well as other key ministries and government agencies to sanitise the industry, stakeholders, at a workshop in Port Harcourt, have, however, …