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Osun partners IITA to boost agriculture, employment

November 18, 2015 Economy 760

In a bid to make agriculture the mainstay of the state’s economy and stay afloat the menace of oil gluts, the g Osun State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the International…

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Paris Attacks: Time To Confront The Aggressors On Both Sides

November 18, 2015 Europe 1006

In a reaction to the gruesome terror acts that left at least 129 dead and 352 injured in Paris, Howard Schmitt wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times echoing the sentiments…

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PDP chieftains, others defect to APC in Kogi

November 18, 2015 Latest News 751

Barely one week to the governorship election in Kogi State, South West Nigeria, members of Senator Smart Adeyemi’s political organisation and notable chieftains in Okunland, have dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the…

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Russia places $50 million ransom on plane crash terror

November 18, 2015 Latest News 634

The Russia’s Federal Security Service has announced a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for downing the Metrojet A-321 aircraft that killed all 224 aboard. The flight from…

B&M Gate Foundation raises family planning funding to $120m

November 18, 2015 Headline 654

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced an additional $120 million (N24 billion) family planning programmes to run globally for the next three years. This is contained in a press statement, signed by…

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CWG Academy produces first Oracle summer boot-camp graduates

November 18, 2015 Latest News 806

The CWG Academy in partnership with Oracle, has organised the first Oracle Summer boot camp in the entire Sub-Sahara African region. The boot camp aimed at equipping participants from tertiary institutions in Nigeria with…

Mrs Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, the deputy governor of Osun State

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OSSG denies plan to merge tertiary institutions

November 17, 2015 Education 944

Osun State Government has again denied rumour on alleged plan no plan to either scrap or merge some of the tertiary institutions in the state. Mrs Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, the deputy governor, stated this while briefing members of the…

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Security agency confirms terror attack on Russian aircraft

November 17, 2015 Latest News 697

The Russian commercial airliner that crashed in Egypt last month was destroyed by a terrorist bomb, Russia’s top security official confirmed on Tuesday. Alexander Bortnikov, the director of Russia’s Federal Security Service, in a…

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Army arrests another Boko Haram suspect

November 15, 2015 Headline 806

Nigerian Army has arrested another major Boko Haram member few weeks after releasing pictures of 100 suspects. In a statement signed by the acting director of the Nigerian Army public relations unit, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman…

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Nigeria on the Verge of Finding Oil in Lake Chad Basin- Kachikwu

November 14, 2015 Economy 802

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has indicated that the country may well be on the verge of a significant oil find in the lake Chad area in North East Nigeria…

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