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Unemployment: Nigeria’s APEX bank launches youth entrepreneurship fund

March 25, 2016

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has launched the Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship Development Programme (YIEDP) in furtherance of its intervention in the real sector of the economy and job creation effort. ...

Space travel: First Nigerian astronaut will be ready by 2030

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March 25, 2016

Nigerian News

The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, on Thursday in Abuja, said a Nigerian astronaut would land in space on or before 2030. Onu made the assertion when the management team of the Defenc...

NASS passes 2016 budget, retains N500bn for the poor, hopes for economic rebound

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March 24, 2016

Nigerian News

Lawmakers have retained the N500 billion intervention fund for the poor in this year’s N6,077,680,000,000 budget. The Muhammadu Buhari administration plans to dole out N5,000 to the poorest in the land and f...

Opposition candidate, Patrice Talon, wins Benin Republic’s Presidential election

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March 22, 2016

African News, West

Opposition candidate, Patrice Talon, has emerged winner of the presidential election in neighbouring Benin Republic after garnering majority of the ballots in the second round of polls, AFP news agency is repor...

Chibok Girls: why UK, US could not rescue them even as location was known – Ex-British Envoy

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March 21, 2016

African News, Nigerian News, World News

The US and British governments knew where at least 80 of the Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram were but failed to launch a rescue mission, it has been revealed. The Boko Haram terrorists stormed a secon...

Daring North Korea fires another missile as Japan protests

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March 18, 2016

World News

North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile on Friday, which flew about 800 km (500 miles) before hitting the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, as the isolated state stepped up its defia...

Boko Haram: Buhari vows to extinct sect, promise security of lives and properties

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March 18, 2016

Nigerian News

President Muhammadu Buhari says he will relentlessly pursue Boko Haram until they become an item of history. The President said this at the opening of the 2016 International Islamic Conference on Peace and N...

Suspected herdsmen attacks another village in Nigeria killing 15

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March 18, 2016

Nigerian News, Uncategorized

The incursion of suspected herdsmen into parts of Benue State took a worrisome dimension yesterday afternoon when they stormed Tombo in Buruku Local Government Area of the state, killing no fewer than 15 person...

Nigeria’s power minister hints on energy diversification

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March 18, 2016

Nigerian News

The Federal Government says it will diversify the nation’s electricity generation using nuclear energy. This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday by Mr Timothy Oyedeji, Director Press, Ministry of Po...

Nigeria to hold economic retreat March 21-22

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March 18, 2016

Nigerian News

The National Economic Council (NEC), will hold a two-day retreat on March 21 and March 22, Vice President’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, said in statement in Abuja on Thursday. The statement said President Muham...