Sentences with phrase «economic challenges confronting the country»

Addressing a press conference in Kaduna on Friday, the Sultan, who spoke through the JNI's Secretary General, Dr. Khalid Abubakar Aliyu, noted that what Nigeria needed at this time was for the citizens to rise above ethnic and religious affinities and join hands in assisting the government to tackle the socio - economic challenges confronting the country.

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Following which the information minister Mustapha Hamid in response to these criticisms defended the government's decision on the appointment of the 110 ministers of state noting that the country's current economic state requires more people who are competent enough to confront the challenges facing the country and resolve them in a manner that will put the state in the path of progress.

But those efforts can appear tiny in situations where students are immigrants whose parents moved them to a new country or come from low - income families and feel they have little power to confront multiple economic and social challenges.