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SURE: 74,000 Jobs Set Aside For Vulnerable Groups – Okonjo-Iweala

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Twenty percent of the 370,000 jobs that will be created nationwide this year under the public works programme of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Scheme (SURE) will go to vulnerable groups including persons living with disabilities.Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala disclosed this at an interactive forum Read the rest of this entry

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The challenges ahead for the political class and the masses

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By Joe Etokudor

On the verge of the fifth Republic, there were indubitable facts of tensions arising from the registration of more political parties by the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It is possible that two persons, individuals or groups within the same party remain enemies because of difference of origin, ethnicity or religion. Read the rest of this entry

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The challenges ahead for the political class and the masses

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By Joe Etokudor

On the verge of the fifth Republic, there were indubitable facts of tensions arising from the registration of more political parties by the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It is possible that two persons, individuals or groups within the same party remain enemies because of difference of origin, ethnicity or religion. Read the rest of this entry

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OPINION: Is the south shrinking? Silence or fight for “true federalism”?

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By Joe Etokudor

For how long will Nigeria have to search and cry out for selfless true nationalistic and gubernatorial leadership on behalf of all Nigerians as is offered Americans and Europeans? Home grown democracy is a failure and is working against Nigerians. To avoid politicians terminating Nigeria, Nigerians as a matter of fact, want an end to sectional, ethnic leaders who seize or are given the Federal and State Governments only to advance their own narrow ethnic agenda. Read the rest of this entry

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How church neglects responsibility in governance-Leader AKHA

Posted by 1 February, 2012 (0) Comment

By our Reporter

The leader of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Okpolupm Ette has described as what he referred to as neglect and lack of taking responsibility in determining who leads the country, Nigeria by religious leaders and attributed some of the current political problem in the country to failure in the part of the religious leaders. Read the rest of this entry

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