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Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development says the N-Power Programme is a gift from President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerian youths to empower them to earn a decent living. Farouq stated this during her visit to N-Power beneficiaries at the Public Service Institute on Tuesday in Abuja. “This N-Power training programme is President Muhammadu Buhari’s gift to you as Nigerian youths: this programme is also to make you a global player as far as businesses, entrepreneurship, and money-making is a concern. Continue reading N-Power: President Buhari’s gift to Nigerian youths for better life says Minister at Vanguard News. https://ift.tt/31WaO6c by Lawal Sherifat via Vanguard News Albert Einstein Fools of Fortune

National Economic Council (NEC) says Nigeria is making conscious efforts toward achieving polio certification by the year 2020. The information was conveyed by Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra, while briefing State House correspondents after the NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said that the major highlights were updates on disease control efforts by the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire. Continue reading Nigeria targets polio certification by 2020 —NEC at Vanguard News. https://ift.tt/347wGNs by Lawal Sherifat via Vanguard News Albert Einstein Fools of Fortune

At that time Mallam Maina Abdullahi Wada (66) from Katsina State kept on appealing to us.Sworn-in on that day as Minsters were Domkat Bali (Defence), Bukar Shuaib (Agriculture), Mahmud Tukur (Trade), A. Abdullahi (Communications), Yarima Ibrahim (Education), Onaolapo Soleye (Finance), Mamman Jiya Vatsa (Abuja), Emmanuel Nsan (Health), Mohammed Magoro (Internal Affairs), Ibrahim Gambari (Foreign Affairs), Samson Omeruah (Information), Abdullahi Ibrahim (Transportation), Tam David-West (Energy), Chike Offodile (Justice) and Patrick Koshoni (Works). Continue reading Buhari, Magoro and the reunion of class of ‘84/85 (2) at Vanguard News. https://ift.tt/32Va7LR by Urowayino Jeremiah via Vanguard News Albert Einstein Fools of Fortune

There is also the American Revolution (1787), the Meiji Revolution (1860) in Japan and the communist revolutions in Russia (1917) and later in China (1947). The incomplete revolution in Korea led to the division of the Korean peninsula to North and South Korea with two political and economic systems. As we can surmise not all revolutions ended in inclusive political and economic systems. As it has been observed, the rich countries of today are those that undertook the journey of industrialisation and technological change and the poor ones are those that did not. As Acemoglu and Robinson have stated: “World inequality exists today because during the 19th and 20th centuries, some countries were able to take advantage of the Industrial Revolution and the technologies and methods of organisation that it brought while others were unable to do so. Technological change is not only one of the engines of prosperity, it is the most critical one”. Continue reading Business and accountable gover...

By Peter Duru, Makurdi Former governor of Benue State, Senator Gabriel Suswam has stated that he has no intention to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the  All Progressives Congress, APC, as being rumoured in the state The senator representing Benue North-East district made the clarification at the weekend during the 57th birthday celebration of the State Chairman of the PDP, Sir John Ngbede at the Methodist Church, North Bank, Makurdi. ALSO READ: Miyetti Allah did not claim responsibility for killings in Benue, want peace ― Onyema Suswam said the rumour was an indication that some desperate persons were making frantic efforts to create friction between himself and the Governor Ortom for ulterior motives assuring that he would not succumb to such retrogressive tendencies. Continue reading Benue state: I have no plan to dump the PDP ― Sen Suswam at Vanguard News. https://ift.tt/2plgfyo by Temisan Amoye via Vanguard News Albert Einstein Fools of Fortune

Developers and promoters of Eko Atlantic City, a mixed use coastal city being built beside Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, Messrs South Energyx Nigeria Limited, has noted that the development of the city standing on 10 million square metres of land reclaimed from the ocean and protected by 8.5 kilometre long sea wall, will permanently address the perennial flooding problem of Victoria Island and Lekki phases 1 and 2 when the protection wall which is nine metres above sea level is completed. Continue reading Eko Atlantic City, solution to VI, Lekki flooding problem — Developer at Vanguard News. https://ift.tt/31RtGU4 by Urowayino Jeremiah via Vanguard News Albert Einstein Fools of Fortune

Kenya will reduce its borrowing from capital markets in the next three years to make its repayments schedule more bearable, a senior treasury official said on Monday. Geoffrey Mwau, the Economics Adviser to the Finance Minister, told reporters in Nairobi that the country would focus more on concessional borrowing. READ ALSO: Here’s how U.S. forces tracked down, killed ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government has been criticized for ramping up borrowing since coming to power in 2013. Continue reading Kenya to cut down on borrowing to make repayments more bearable at Vanguard News. https://ift.tt/2q09CBw by Temisan Amoye via Vanguard News Albert Einstein Fools of Fortune