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Lady assaults LAGESC officer, bags 7months jail term

By Innocent Raphael Fasia Ajoke, a 22-year-old woman has been sentenced to seven months and three weeks in prison by a Special Offences Court for assaulting an officer of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), commonly known as KAI, at Ile-Epo bus stop along the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. Ajoke allegedly assaulted the KAI officer who directed her to use the pedestrian…

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COVID-19’s impact on young people risks a lost generation

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive collapse in human capital at critical moments in the life cycle, derailing development for millions of children and young people in low- and middle-income countries, according to the first analysis of global data on young people who were under the age of 25 at the onset of the pandemic. The new World Bank report,…

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