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UN forecasts global economic growth around 3 percent in 2019
The global economy will grow around 3 percent annually in 2019 and 2020, but waning support for multilateralism, escalating trade disputes, increasing debt and rising climate risks are clouding prospects, +
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UNICEF to work with Bayelsa Govt to reduce Out-Of-School Children
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the Bayelsa State government on Monday commenced a school enrollment campaign in Yenagoa aimed at reducing the increasing rate +
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Empowering Women in the Maritime Community
“Empowering Women in the Maritime Community” has been selected as the World Maritime Day theme for 2019. This will provide an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of gender +
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Oxfam says world wealth gap widening, advocates fairer taxes
Wealth inequality around the world is “out of control” and doing particular harm to women, anti-poverty campaigner Oxfam warned Monday ahead of the annual gathering of business and political leaders +
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Chevron-powered development body inaugurates 241 million naira projects in 8 Bayelsa oil communities
It was celebration galore, weekend, for eight oil-bearing communities on the Atlantic fringe of Bayelsa State as KEFFES Rural Development Foundation, RDF, inaugurated 20 capital projects in the communities hosting +
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Free transportation for Abia natives going home for elections
A group, Concerned Citizens of Abia in Diaspora (CCAD), has promised to provide free transportation for all its indigenes across the country wanting to travel back home for the +
