Author: Popoola Babalola

The EU plans to spend 3.5 billion euros ($4.6 billion) in the next seven years to “make malnutrition history” in some of the world’s poorest countries, Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, announced on Friday. “I find it incomprehensible that, in an era of technological revolution, some 870 million people are still going hungry,” Piebalgs said. Malnutrition causes more than three million child deaths annually, according to the World Health Organisation, while 165 million children aged under five have stunted growth because of lack of food. The vast majority of affected children are concentrated in about 36 countries. “We have the means…

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The governor, who made this known in Ado Ekiti at the swearing in of two newly appointed Permanent Secretaries, said his administration would continue to avail workers enough capacity development opportunities in order to meet immediate gaps as well as assist the workforce so that they would not be left behind in the acquisition of up-to-date knowledge in their various fields

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Wale Babalakin, the Chairman, Bi-Courtney Limited, on Sunday urged the Oyo State Government to hand over Government College, Ibadan to its Old Boys Association for proper administration and management. Babalakin, who is the Chairman of the Lagos State branch of the GCI’s Old Boys Association, made the plea at the 2013 Annual Lunch and Merit Awards ceremony of the school in Lagos. He expressed the willingness of the old students to take over the administration of the school, including its funding. “We believe that this step, once taken, would be the harbinger of efforts to restore the past glory of…

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