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President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday that his government will launch a job creation scheme that will enable young people with knowledge and capacity to employ other young people. He revealed this while hosting Helen Clark, administrator of the UN Development Program, UNDP, at the State House, Abuja. According to him, “We are going to launch a program to enable ...

A group of Nigerians in Sierra Leone, called the Yoruba Progressive Association, YPA, Saturday marked their country’s independence anniversary visiting aged people at the King George VI Coronation Home on Lower Parssonage Street, Shell. The leader of the aged people, Ms Joyce Dugan, thanked the YPA delegation for choosing to visit on October 1st which coincides with the marking of ...

A global oil and gas exploration company headquartered in London, Tullow Oil Plc, has announced that new oil has been discovered at its Enyenra-3A well in Ghana. State-owned GBC news agency reported that Tullow Oil Plc’s Enyenra-3A appraisal well in the company’s Deepwater Tano offshore concession successfully encountered oil in high quality sandstone reservoirs. Pressure data indicates that the Enyenra-3A ...

The World Health Organization, WHO, has warned low and middle-income countries that use all types of asbestos in building and transport industries of the risk of facing a surge of deaths in the coming decades. The organization published a study yesterday, showing that cancer deaths caused by asbestos exposure would increase in many low and middle-income countries that continued to ...