…his election would mark a historic moment Pope Francis who introduced some radical reforms into the Catholic fold passed on Easter Monday at 88. As the tradition entails, a Conclave is already underway to prepare the ground for a new pope. Whike the faithful mourn, there appear to be an underground push for the emergence of the first black Pope in the history of Catholicism as the only black man among the Cardinals, Cardinal Peter Turkson, 76, a Ghanaian, is up in the bar to succeed Francis. As reported by…
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Unemployment: Urgent need to curtail rising scare
A few weeks before leaving office, the immediate past Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, confirmed the looming threat about the country’s gradual slide into a higher realm of unemployment. The pronouncement coming from an insider within government circle speaks much about the reality on ground, a reality that other government officials would always want to deny or parry. Ngige’s outcry is not too far from the series of reports that had been churned out by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on the growing unemployment figure despite…
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