ABUJA—As Nigerians prepare to elect a new president next year, Northern youths said, yesterday, that they were yet to decide on who to support between incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari and his major challenger, Atiku Abubabar.
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Month: October 2018
The Untold Life Story Of Taiwo Hassan Ogogo
TechMe laments unemployment rate,empowers women with ICT
In its desire to boost entrepreneurial skills in Information Communication Technology, ICT, TechMe, a non governmental organisation has trained fifteen women between ages 18and 30 in website designing.Speaking during the six-week training in Lagos, Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Tech Me, Jerry Odili lamented the unemployment rate in our nation saying ”the level of unemployment among youth and women in Nigeria is deplorable. Statistics show that while unemployment rate among men is 16.5% it’s 25% for women . Whereas, there are a lot of potentials in women which if left untapped could be detrimental to our national economy”.
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Shi’ites declare 1,000 members missing in Abuja
Amnesty Office activates Rivers, Edo, Bayelsa, Ondo, Delta training centres
BENIN—THE Office of the Amnesty Programme headed by Professor Charles Dokubo, has disclosed that plans have been concluded to activate new training centres in Ondo, Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa and Edo states.
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‘Without resettlement of refugees, Bakassi remains Nigeria’s dark spot’
I epitomise my father’s ideology —Ede Dafinone
There’s nothing like 26% UNESCO funding requirement anywhere – OKEBUKOLA
Stories by Dayo Adesulu
UNESCO Consultant and former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Professor Peter Okebukola has disputed claims making the rounds for years that UNESCO recommends 26% bugetary allocation for education in every nation.He noted that having consulted for UNESCO for years, he can authoritatively say there’s no such recommendation.He said: ”There is nothing like 26% budgetary allocation to education recommended by UNESCO anywhere, you can’t get this anywhere”
Okebukola who spoke in Lagos to journalists during Caleb University convocation recently said the talk about 26% budgetary allocation to education began in 2001 when he was the scribe of NUC stressing “Seventeen years ago, I was executive secretary, NUC and kept hearing this and I was like, where is this one coming from?.I have been consulting for UNESCO for years, I have been writing on funding university education everywhere and you are talking of 26% , where is it coming from?
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LSTL 2011: Its positives, negatives
An estate surveyor and valuer, Biodun Olapade, has described housing as a barometer to measure the living condition in a country. Besides, he is of the opinion that the huge housing deficit and the importance of housing, may have made many investors to include real estate investment in their portfolio or as preferred investment. This […] …
Ogoni Cleanup to commence this month
The Federal Government has said the ‘Ogoni clean-up’ exercise will commence this month. Minister of Environment, Ibrahim Jibril, while disclosing this, assured that the remediation exercise would no longer be postponed as the governing council of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) is on the verge of submitting the necessary procurement document to the Bureau […] …