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The Federal Government has on Wednesday revised the 2012 budget to make provisions for N656.3bn for fuel subsidy for the year, thus reducing the budget of the ministries, department and agencies for travels and training by N100bn. Consequently, the 2012 budget figure has reduced from N4.749trn to N4.649trn. The Minister of Finance and Coordinator of the economy, Dr Okonjo-Iweala revealed ...

A hundred and eighteen students completed their studies with a First Class Division in the 2010/2011 batch of graduating students of the University of Lagos, with Josiah Akhigbe, a Mechanical Engineering student, amassing a Grade Point Average of 4.98 out of 5.00, the highest in the institution’s history. At the university’s convocation ceremony, Wednesday, 8,585 students in both the undergraduate ...

Colombian pop superstar Shakira was attacked by a sea lion as she tried to photograph and pet a group of the animals during a vacation in Cape Town, she said Wednesday on her Facebook page. “I thought to myself how cute they were so I decided to get a bit closer than all of the other tourists and went down ...

Nick Vujicic, the limbless Australian motivational speaker, got married to Kanae Miyahara on February 10 in California. Nick, 29, has addressed over three million people in 25 countries, including Australia, United States, Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, South Africa, Columbia, India, and others. Although he is different from most people because he has no limbs, he believes a healthy ...

The State Security Services, SSS, has declared another member of the Boko Haram sect, Habibu Bama wanted. This came after intensive interrogation of the captured spokesperson of the Boko Haram sect, Abul Qaqa. In a statement signed by Marilyn Ogar of the Department of State Services, Bama was described as an ex-soldier and a Kanuri from Bama, in Borno State. ...