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Obasanjo: As a NOUN student, I rejected favours and wrote my exam

    Obasanjo: As a NOUN student, I rejected favours and wrote my exam

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has recounted his experience during doctoral degree programme at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Speaking at the university’s convocation ceremony in Abuja on Saturday,

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PHOTOS: School children involved in child labour

    PHOTOS: School children involved in child labour

BY ADEMOLA AKINLABI With a figure of 10.5 million, Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world, according to UNICEF. This may be underestimated as more children

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Poverty is weapon of mass destruction, says Kano senator

    Poverty is weapon of mass destruction, says Kano senator

Jibrin Barau, senator representing Kano north, says poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. He said this on Tuesday while contributing to a debate on a motion entitled ‘commemoration of

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Amina Mohammed: Eradication of poverty is very urgent

    Amina Mohammed: Eradication of poverty is very urgent

The entire global community must approach poverty eradication with a sense of urgency, Amina Mohammed, deputy UN secretary-general, has said. Mohammed, in her message to the three-day 2017 integration segment

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Okonjo-Iweala: Education is the strongest vaccine against poverty

  Okonjo-Iweala: Education is the strongest vaccine against poverty

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance and the chairperson of Gavi board, says education is the strongest antidote and vaccine

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Garri N10k, rice N17k, kerosene N450… Nigerians groan as cost of living soars

  Garri N10k, rice N17k, kerosene N450… Nigerians groan as cost of living soars

“If not for her, I would have left this country,” Moses Chukwudi, a foodstuff trader at Mile 12 Market, Lagos,

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Mbaka: Nigerians may vote Buhari out in 2019

  Mbaka: Nigerians may vote Buhari out in 2019

Ejike Mbaka, a reverend father and spiritual director of the Adoration Ministry, has lamented the effects of the country’s economic

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Air pollution ‘kills 600,000’ in Africa every year

  Air pollution ‘kills 600,000’ in Africa every year

Every year, 600,00 people die prematurely from indoor air pollution in Africa, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

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Okonjo-Iweala: Nigeria must eradicate poverty

  Okonjo-Iweala: Nigeria must eradicate poverty

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy, says Nigeria and the rest of the Africa

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Global poverty to fall below 10% for the first time ever

  Global poverty to fall below 10% for the first time ever

The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world is likely to fall to under 10 percent of

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