The World Bank, under its Growth and Employment, GEM, project, has approved N756.3 million for disbursement to 81 young Nigerian innovators who participated in the 2016 Aso Villa Demo Day, AVDD. The AVDD is one of the economic empowerment initiatives of the present administration. A document obtained from the World Bank-funded GEM project on Monday […]
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Not less than 10 people were killed as an unidentified device exploded inside a metro train at the Sennaya Square station in St. Petersburg in Russia, on Monday. “According to information available at this point ten people died. Others were injured,” a source said. The number of casualties was still to be specified and rescue […]
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The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted its first resolution addressing Boko Haram’s presence in the Lake Chad Basin. The resolution followed a report of its mission to the region earlier this month. In unanimously adopting the resolution 2349 (2017), on Friday, the Council expressed concern about the protection of civilians affected by terrorism. The […]
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Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was arrested and jailed Friday in connection to the corruption investigation that led to her ouster earlier this month, authorities said. Park was taken into custody at her home and taken to a detention centre — a scene that was covered on live South Korean television. Officials said the disgraced […]
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Medication errors kill and injure millions of people while an estimated 42 billion dollars is lost annually, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. The Director-General of WHO, Margaret Chan, at a new campaign, “ Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety,’’ said that medicines should fulfil their real purpose to help people and […]
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Toyota Motor Corp on Thursday said it was recalling a total of about 2.9 million vehicles in Japan, China, Oceania and other regions including its Corolla Axio sedan and RAV4 SUV crossover due to potentially faulty airbag inflators. Fuji Heavy Industries, the maker of Subaru cars, Mitsubishi Motors Corp and truck maker Hino Motors also […]
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Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump’s favourite daughter, on Wednesday announced that she would take up an appointment in her father’s administration, as a Special Assistant to the President but will not take a salary. This came as her unofficial role has grown in recent weeks, and she was granted security clearance and an office […]
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Former Ivory Coast First Lady, Simone Gbagbo who is facing charges for crimes against humanity and war crimes, has been acquitted by a Court in Ivory Coast. These charges were linked to her role in a 2011 civil war that killed about 3,000 people. The trial is the West African nation’s first for crimes against […]
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Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has emerged President of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC). Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman, said in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja that the INEC boss emerged after a keen contest in Cotonou, Republic of Benin. Oyekanmi said the […]
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will file formal Brexit divorce papers on Wednesday, nine months after Britons narrowly voted to leave the European Union. She signed the Brexit letter on Tuesday and spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the future talks. The letter will be hand-delivered on Wednesday to EU Council President Donald Tusk in […]
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