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The World Bank has issued a compelling call to action for Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan African nations, urging governments to focus on rebuilding public trust by improving essential service delivery. This was highlighted in its 2025 Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report released earlier this month. According to the report, many African citizens have grown increasingly disillusioned with their governments due to poor access to vital services such as education, healthcare, electricity, water supply, and public administration. In Nigeria, these failures are especially visible in underfunded schools, overcrowded hospitals, and unreliable infrastructure. The World Bank noted that while some African countries are making progress in macroeconomic management and social inclusion, the biggest setback remains weak governance. The lack of transparency, inefficiency in public institutions, and a slow response to citizens’ needs have worsened the trust gap between government...
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158 Nigerian migrants repatriated from Libya

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The National Government has localized 158 unpredictable Nigerian transients from Libya.

Nigeria's Charge' d' Affaires to Libya, Amb. Mohammed, spread the word about this in a proclamation on Wednesday.

Mohammed said that the gathering of evacuees contained 77 guys, 45 females, 26 kids as well as 10 newborn children.

The emissary made sense of that of the all out number, 26 guys captured from the continuous strike of undocumented outsiders in Libya were set free from Abu-Salim Confinement Center in Tripoli.

As per him, up to this point, 1, 776 abandoned Nigerians have gotten back.

Mohammed said that the bringing home was a cooperative exertion between the mission and the Libyan specialists.

He said that the joint effort was under the Global Association for Movement (IOM) under the association's Deliberate Compassionate Bringing home (VHR).

"This denotes the twelfth clearing exercise completed by the Nigerian Mission in Libya this year.

"The ongoing activity follows the bringing home 142 sporadic Nigerian transients from Sabha, Libya, on July 19.

"While some of them were saved from the Mediterranean Ocean by the Libyan Seaside Watchmen, others were captured on charges of prostitution, unlawful passage, outstay and absence of legitimate documentation while others enthusiastically submitted themselves to the IOM in Libya for bringing home.

"Nigerians living in Libya, from numerous signs, as of now have harmed notorieties because of the supposed accursed exercises of a few criminal components among them.

"Some have been fingered in the responsibility of wrongdoings, for example, abducting for emancipate, drug hawking, prostitution, offer of liquor as well as cultism and illegal exploitation with their Libyan collaborators, among others .

"It is, in this manner, because of the over that, capture and removal of Nigerians might go on in the long stretches of time ahead," he said.

The emissary encouraged Nigerians to disregard sporadic movements expressing that there have been expanding and facilitated strikes of unlawful travelers across the urban areas of Libya.

As per him, these are probable going to go on as Libyan specialists consider deluge of unlawful transients in the country a public safety issue and have promised to utilize all legitimate means to stop the danger.

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