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Mozambican doctors on Sunday announced they will go on a five day strike over pay and working conditions demands that had not been met by the Government.

Mozambique Doctors Make Strike Threats over Pay Demands

Mozambican medical professionals on Sunday announced they will certainly go on a 5-day strike over pay and working condition demands that had not been...

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Nigeria’s Gov. Okorocha slashes tuition fees for non-Imo students by 50%

Non-indigenes schooling in Imo state will definitely be celebrating as the State Guv, Rochas Okorocha on Wednesday announced a FIFTY per cent reduction...

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FG Sacks Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises

The Federal Government has relieved the Director General (DG) of the Agency for Public Enterprises, Bolanle Onogoruwa of her official duties, ordering...

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Fire Destroys N100m Goods In Onitsha Wood Market

Mr Obidigbo Okorie, Chairman, Carpentry and Wood Design Market, Bridge-Head Markets, Onitsha, has urged the Anambra federal government to check out the...

101 First Class Candidates Picked for Presidential Scholarship Awards

THE Federal Government has announced the selection of 101 First Cass honours degree candidates as recipients of 2012 Presidential Special Scholarship for Innovation and Development. The awardees will be sent abroad to study in the top 25 universities in the world up to Masters and PhD levels. Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu  Rufa’i, while addressing the winners...

Nigeria: FG re-instates Dana Air’s operating licence after just 3 Months

Three months after suspending Dana Air’s operating license following the Dana plane crash that killed 153 on June 3rd, the federal government has...

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NIGERIA: FG decides on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway next week

Federal Government will take a final decision on the concessioning of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway next week. The expressway had earlier been concessioned...

Ghana and Nigerian Businessmen At War

Nigerian government in collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is working with the Ghanaian government to reconsider its harsh condition imposed on Nigerian businessmen in Ghana. Minister of Information, Labaran Maku who stated this yesterday, noted that the long existing cordial relationship between the two countries would not be jeopardised...

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Govt gets Dana Air crash report

Contaminated aviation fuel raises fresh safety worries THE Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has submitted the preliminary report of its investigation...

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Nigeria: Farouk Lawan released on bail vows to sue Federal government

Embattled lawmaker Farouk Lawan was released on bail yesterday after being in police custody at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, for two days. He was released...

B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G NEWS: Reps urge Jonathan to implement subsidy report – Nigeria

The House of Representatives this morning called on the Federal Government to march words with actions by implementing the report of its adhoc committee on Subsidy Management. Addressing members of the House during Friday’s plenary, the Speaker, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal maintained that the reports of the adhoc committee remained valid and should be implemented to...

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Nigeria: Dana didn’t heed my warning – Akpabio

AKWA Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio on Sunday said he had earlier lodged a complaint with the management of Dana Air before the unfortunate plane...

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NIGERIA’S BLACK SUNDAY: Levi Ajuonuma, 3 Generals, 166 others die in plane crash

LAGOS — CALL it a weekend of disaster and you will not be wrong. Beginning from Thursday, Nigeria, the world’s largest black nation has been engulfed...

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Extra-judicial killings in the North: We didn’t do it, JTF tells Elders

THE Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State Operation Restore Order took on Northern Elders, yesterday, over the claim that the military outfit, raised to...

Nigeria: Massive Federal Government Graduate Internship Scheme (Nationwide)

The Project Implementation Unit (PIU) is located in the Federal Ministry of Finance(FMF) and it has been established to have the overall responsibility for the day-to-day project management of the Public Works, Youth and Women Employment(PW/WYE) Component of the SURE – P which the GIS falls under. The current unemployment statistics in Nigeria, put at about 19.7%...

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NIGERIA: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN’T STOP BOKO HARAM – EL-RUFAI

Former Minister, Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Nasir el-Rufai, on Saturday stirred the hornet’s nest when he castigated the Federal Government “unorganized...