Sentences with phrase «major challenges facing the nation»

According to him, the ruling political party, All Progressives Congress, had identified three major challenges facing the nation as insecurity, poor economy, and corruption, noting that corruption was the most debilitating of all the ills.

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The three nations face a challenge to meet the U.S.'s goal because major divisions remain, including on the U.S. proposal for more North American content in automobiles.

Deputy Commissioner John Miller said earlier this month that because the pope's visit will precede the United Nation's General Assembly and a planned trip of President Barack Obama to New York, police face «one of the most significantly challenging security environments maybe in the history of major policing.»

Speaking at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre's Seminar with the theme «Repositioning Nigerian Army Command School for Quality Education in the 21st Century in Abuja on Thursday, Buratai who was represented by Major General Lincon Ogunewe, Chief of Policy and Plans, Army HQ, noted that children who were deprived of quality education would be ill - equipped to face the challenges of life while other nations preoccupied themselves in preparation for the 22 century.

The charge added, «Nigeria, a major oil producer and Africa's most populous nation and second - largest economy, is facing challenges.

In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the nation.

The Mission's initial roll - out is a major step in the UN's expanding effort to tackle what World Health Organization chief Dr. Margaret Chan has declared to likely be «the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its agencies have ever faced.»

The bipartisan passage of the America COMPETES Act represents a major milestone on this Nation's path to building an innovation economy for the 21st century — an economy that harnesses the scientific and technological ingenuity that has long been at the core of America's prosperity and applies that creative force to some of the biggest challenges we face today.

No other major nation has previously been faced with the daunting challenge of educating virtually all its people to a high standard.

ABSTRACT (Quote) Climate change remains one of the major international environmental challenges facing nations.

Climate change remains one of the major international environmental challenges facing nations.

Every Woman Every Child A United Nations - backed movement addressing the major health challenges facing women and children around the world.