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The World Bank has said that interest payments on the Nigerian government’s borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will gulp over 62 per cent of revenue by 2027. The international financial organisation made this known in the latest edition of its Nigeria development update (NDU) titled, ‘Nigeria’s choice’. The Nigerian government has been borrowing from the CBN through ways and means advances, a loan facility through which the CBN finances the government’s budget deficits. A PREMIUM TIMES’ analysis…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Criminals are laundering cash worth the equivalent of up to 1.8 trillion dollars a year by using legitimate EU trade channels, according to research published in the journal Applied Economics. The 10-year study is the first to provide a comprehensive estimate of the scale of this illegal…

During the most recent conference of my professional organization, my colleague Amanda Dilger and I encouraged our fellow clinicians in attendance to offset the carbon cost of their travel. This was in addition to a panel in which we explained to a small crowd of surgeons that climate change is a health issue. Amanda and I are otolaryngologists, but we are also climate activists. Before starting the panel, I was unsure about how it would be received by my fellow surgeons, as climate change had rarely been discussed at…

Nonprofits struggle with raising awareness and retaining staff. SalesforceIn the year ahead, nonprofits anticipate challenges related to staffing and the state of the economy, technology, finances, and fundraising. This is reflected in how nonprofits are shifting their priorities over the coming year with 48% placing a greater emphasis on fundraising, 46% on retaining staff, and 44% on employee wellbeing. Today, nonprofit leaders are slightly more optimistic about their own organizations (65%) than the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As major hurricanes slam the nation year after year, claiming dozens of lives and costing billions in damages, the impact of climate change on these natural events comes up often in political speeches and casual conversations. …

NASA said Wednesday it had successfully trialed the fuelling process for its new rocket, after technical issues a few weeks ago halted two attempts to get the behemoth off the ground and headed towards the Moon."All of the objectives that we set out to do we were able to accomplish today," said Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, launch director of the program called Artemis 1.The unmanned mission hopes to test the new 30-story SLS rocket as well as the unmanned Orion capsule that sits atop it, in preparation for future…

This podcast was produced for the AstraZeneca YOUR Cancer program by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Transcript: Megan Hall: Every year, the Cancer Community Awards sponsored by AstraZeneca presents an individual or organization with a Catalyst for Change Award. This award celebrates those who significantly improve access to cancer care for underserved populations. In 2021, Tomma Hargraves received the award for her work as a volunteer for the Lung Cancer…

by Alia E. Dastagir Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Poll after poll shows Americans' trust in government and one another is historically low. Faith in institutions is abysmal and interpersonal confidence has worsened. Ratings of scientists have now fallen below where…

Inflation in the U.K. rose to 9.1% in May, a fresh four-decade high, darkening the country’s economic prospects at a time of mounting worker unrest and growing disaffection with the government.The figure marks the fastest rise in prices for a Group of Seven rich economy since the global surge began at the start of last year. The U.K.’s rapid inflation and low-growth prospects have converged into what Britons have called the cost-of-living crisis, which has displaced the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the U.K.’s divorce…

Washington, After halting Artemis 1 moon rocket's "wet dress rehearsal" several times, Nasa has successfully completed the crucial fuelling test of its Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket.The Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal ended at 7.37 pm EDT on June 20, Nasa said in a statement."This is the first time the team fully loaded all the SLS rocket's propellant tanks and proceeded into the terminal launch countdown, when many critical activities occurred in rapid succession,a the US space agency.However, the test did not go…