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President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday launched the Public Works, Women and Youth Empowerment (PW/WYE) project, a component of the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE) designed to create 370,000 jobs by the end of the year. Speaking at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa during the launch of the PW/WYE project, President Jonathan said the job creation scheme will ...

“What force is more potent than love?” – Igor Stravinsky The month of February is referred to by many as the month of love. It is the only month in the year when people feel that they can show love to people. The 14th day of February stands out as the day when people get to show “love” to others. ...

Nigeria has set aside $5 million for diaspora activities and prescribed a stipend of $2,500 to be paid to any member of its experts based abroad who decides to return home in a bid to turn ”brain drain into brain gain’’. All over Africa, there are already similar attempts. In Kenya, a Draft Sessional Paper on the Diaspora was already ...

(AFP) – Nigeria’s army has killed 12 suspected fighters from the Boko Haram Islamists during a raid in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the group’s base, a military spokesman told AFP on Monday. Spokesman Hassan Mohammed of the Joint Task Force said there was a shootout in the city late Sunday between soldiers and “gunmen suspected to be members of ...

Former Lagos State governor and leader of opposition Action Congess of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured his teaming supporters that he is in stable health and would return to Nigeria this week. The ACN leader also described his rumoured il-health as the handiwork of his detractors who are bent on smearing his public image. In a statement ...