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• China to train key professionals abroad

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Beijing, Jan 28 (IANS) To upgrade its human resources in key sectors, China is preparing to send a considerable number of professionals for overseas training at government expense by 2015.A statement, issued by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), mentioned the newly approved five-year ...
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• Kuwait 2011 inflation at 3-year high, seen subsiding

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 505
  Kuwait’s average inflation climbed to a three-year high of 4.8 percent in 2011, in line with analysts’ forecasts, data showed, but price pressures are expected to subside this year. Consumer price growth in the OPEC member, which was spared the unrest sweeping the Middle East and North Africa last year apart from ...
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• CBN: Fuel Subsidy Gulped N1.73tr Last Year – Thisday

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 130
  The actual bill for fuel subsidy in 2011 was N1.73 trillion, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said Tuesday. Various figures had been claimed by government officials, ranging from N1.3 trillion to N1.5 trillion as against the N245 billion provided for in the 2011 Appropriation Act. Deputy Governor of the CBN, Mr. ...
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• FG paid N1.7tn fuel subsidy, not N1.4tn – CBN – Punch

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 130
  The Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday put the “actual” total subsidy payments on fuel imports in 2011 at N1.7tn, an excess of N300bn above the N1.4tn figure given by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, last week. The apex bank told the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Subsidy Regime ...
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• NMA laments injuries, deaths in subsidy removal protests – Daily Trust

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 130
  The Nigerian Medical Association has expressed regret that the issue of subsidy on fuel would be allowed to degenerate into the weeklong anti-subsidy removal protests last week which resulted in deaths and injuries to several ordinary Nigerians. The association says the least it expects the Federal Government to do ...
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• Govt agencies deny okaying payment of subsidy – Vanguard

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 130
  
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• Nigeria reels after oil subsidy row turns into country’s biggest ever protest

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Nigeria reels after oil subsidy row turns into country’s biggest ever protest Ordinary people braced for more trouble in wake of fuel protests, strikes and militant attacksBisola Edun’s electricity generator sits outside her small Lagos fashion shop and factory, noisily ...
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• New Occupations

  
  Sugabelly 2.0 — Authority: 95
  Right after the new year I suffered from major blogging fatigue. (Or more likely In spite of everything that went on in the past two weeks, I felt like I had nothing to blog about. The NLC strike is over but by all rights the Occupy Nigeria protests should have continued but for GEJ getting his panties in a twist ...
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• Childcare subsidy cuts hurt working women and families

  
  Washington Policy Watch — Authority: 110
  Economic trends show Washington women and families are falling behind in the economy, and repeated cuts to state childcare assistance is compounding the pain – especially for single mothers. Washington has a high percentage of parents in the workforce – including 70% of single mothers – so it comes as no ...
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• A Country’s Frustration, Fueled Overnight-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie…

  
  filtre — Authority: 132
  "On New Year’s Day, in my ancestral hometown of Abba inAnambra State in eastern Nigeria, my family and I woke up to unbelievable news:the price of petrol had doubled. Overnight, the government had removed what itcalled the subsidy on fuel, and almost immediately, transport fares explodedand food prices rose ...
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• A Case for a United Nigeria

  
  Foreign Affairs Journal — Authority: 118
  One of the 40 churches burned by mobs of Muslims during the intercommunal violence in Jos, Nigeria. Source: Human Rights Watch The idea of Nigeria splitting into different sovereigns has gained traction over the last several weeks. A growing chorus of local leaders in Nigeria, looking to avoid what happened ...
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• Police arrest 38 suspects in Kwara – Tribune

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 130
  •Over stealing, extortion and burning of Jonathan’s, Saraki’s campaign office THE Kwara State police command has arrested 38 people, including a 13-year-old boy, alleged to have taken part in the stealing, extortion and burning of the campaign office of President Goodluck Jonathan, Senator Bukola Saraki and ...
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• Security, Subsidy: Gowon Rallies Support for Jonathan – ThisDay

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 130
  Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has called for the support of all Nigerians for the efforts of President Goodluck Jonathan in resolving the security challenges facing the country, saying there is no hard-and-fast rule on handling such issues. He also expressed his unshakable belief in the ability of ...
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• Tell the FCC how you feel about sports blackouts!

  
  Eideard — Authority: 127
  Tell the FCC how you feel about sports blackouts!
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• This electric car news isn’t as good as it sounds at first

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 114
  Electric car enthusiasts – those who want someone else to subsidize their extravagances and then pretend that the electricity they use isn’t created with fossil fuel anyway – may at first find something to cheer about in this news from England. There are now more charging stations than electric vehicles on the ...
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• EFCC Begins Investigation on Fuel Subsidy Fraud, Raids PPPRA Office

  
  Infomister — Authority: 125
  Following a directive by the Federal Government for the immediate review and investigation into all payments made in respect of subsidies on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and kerosene, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, swooped on the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory ...
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• You are traitors, David-West tells union leaders – Punch

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 130
  The former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Prof. Tam David-West, on Monday accused Labour leaders of betraying the masses after agreeing with the Federal Government to peg fuel pump price at N97 per litre. Labour and their civil society allies had insisted that nothing short of a reversion to the old pump price of ...
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• Nigeria National Fuel Strike Ends

  
  Travel news from car rentals Page not found — Authority: 430
  On Monday, labour unions in Nigeria suspended a strike that was paralysing the economy, which is the third-largest on the continent, for over a week. The suspension followed President Goodluck Jonathan offering to partially reinstate a subsidy on fuel. The announcement came in a televised speech by the president. ...
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• EFCC Swoops on PPPRA, NNPC over Subsidy Payments – ThisDay

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 130
  A day after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was invited by Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, to investigate subsidy payments, the anti-graft agency has swooped on the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), taking ...
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• Labour rejects N97 – The Nation

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 130
  NLC, TUC: it’s govt’s unilateral decision   WORK is expected to resume today, following Labour’s suspension of its fuel price strike that brought the economy to its knees. The government has reduced petrol price to N97 per litre – down from between N139 and N200. But Labour said N97 per litre was the ...
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