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target=_blank>Works, housing sectors crucial to moving 1 million Nigerians out of poverty – Fashola
Works and housing minister Babatunde Fashola says that the works and housing sectors were crucial to meeting President Muhammadu Buhari’s `next level’ target of moving one million Nigerians from poverty to prosperity.
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target=_blank>UI College of Medicine ranks 4th in Africa
Prof Olubunmi Olapade-Olaopa, the Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, says the 71-year-old medical college has clinched the fourth position in Africa in the 2019 World University Ranking.
Olapade-Olaopa, who disclosed this on Thursday in Ibadan while speaking with newsmen at the end of the Innovative Research Fair of the college, said the institution is also the first in sub-Saharan Africa.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the three-day fair had the tagline: “Innovation for Development.”
According to the provost, the premier Nigerian college fell behind Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa as well as Cairo and Mansoura Universities in Egypt.
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target=_blank>We will still be happy if we don’t win any NYG medal, Akwa Ibom official says
Paul Bassey, an Akwa Ibom state government official, says winning or not winning medals is not a problem for the state’s contingent to the ongoing 5th National Youth Games (NYG).
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target=_blank>PDP advises FG to reverse decision to increase VAT from 5% to 7.2%
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the Federal Government to reverse its decision to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5 per cent to 7.2 per cent.
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target=_blank>Mexico disputes US Supreme Court order on asylum restrictions
Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Thursday that Mexico’s government doesn’t agree with an “astonishing” US Supreme Court order that would block migrants from countries other than Mexico and Canada from applying for asylum at US borders.
Speaking at President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s daily news conference, Ebrard said that Mexico has a different policy when it comes to asylum seekers and would never implement such a rule.
“Our policy of refuge, of asylum, is a tradition in Mexico,” he said.
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target=_blank>Tunisia’s Presidential Election: Four important things to know
When Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi died in late July, three months before his mandate was due to end, Tunisian authorities reacted swiftly.
The news of his death was communicated to the public within an hour, the speaker of parliament was sworn in as interim leader shortly thereafter, and the electoral commission brought forward the date for the presidential election.
But the peaceful handover of power, a rarity in the Arab world, belies the political instability and economic stagnation that has plagued the country since it democratised in 2011.
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target=_blank>Mugabe’s Burial: Family prevails in dispute, body to be buried at rural home
Robert Mugabe’s family has prevailed and Zimbabwe’s former president will be buried in his rural home.
This is a final snub to his former comrades. It is not unprecedented: other national heroes have declined to be buried at the Heroes’ Acre national shrine in the capital, Harare, but not one of Robert Mugabe’s stature, BBC Africa reported.
Speaking at her mother’s funeral last year, Grace Mugabe expressed her desire to reconcile with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man who ultimately won out in the pair’s battle to succeed Mr Mugabe as president.
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target=_blank>Presidential Tribunal verdict: South West PDP says justice was not done
The South West Zone of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has expressed disappointment over Wednesday’s verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
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target=_blank>Another defeat awaits you at Apex Court – Oshiomhole mocks Atiku, PDP
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole says the party is ready for the next round of legal battle with Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
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Ijaws suffered most during militancy era ?Group
…wants militants independent of stipends
Ebipam Johnny, the National Coordinator of Ijaws in Oil and Gas noted while speaking after their bi-annual appraisals of oil and gas operations in the Niger Delta that the Ijaw ethnic suffered most during the militancy era.
The programme was held at Warri, in Delta state.
“We were the higher chuck that suffered more during militancy era”, Johnny said.
Also in his statement, Johnny said the Ijaws in Oil and Gas wants the appointment of a credible Ijaw son, High Chief Dennis Otuaro with a proven track record to function in the capacity of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Amnesty.
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