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Nigeria launches mobile schools for displaced Boko Haram victims

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School-age children of Internally Displaced Persons in some parts of the North-East affected by the insurgency are back in school as the Federal Government launched Mobile Containerized schools last week in Maiduguri, Borno State. The 50-foot container is a mobile classroom, which efficiently contains 35 students and is fully equipped with basic educational materials and furnishing including solar panels for electricity powering lights and fans.

U.S. seeks to increase number of Nigerian students in American schools

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The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria in an effort to increase the number of Nigerian students studying in America will convene its 16th annual ‘Education USA College Fair’ between Oct. 7 and 8 in Abuja.

How NNPC officials stole billions using failed electronic management contract

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An enterprise resource solution for accountability in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC’s business processes, turned a spin project for crooked top officials to steal billions, a report reveals. The project, which had 86 weeks completion time-line, has dragged for more than three years, after gulping almost double the contract sum originally approved by the Nigerian presidency, with nothing to show. The resource solution is called SAP Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP). It is an electronic management solution deployed by most global organisations to monitor real-time operations of a network of subsidiaries and affiliates irrespective of their locations.

BREAKING: Buhari appoints Lai Mohammed, Fashola, Amaechi, others, ministers

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President Muhammadu Buhari has named the spokesperson of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Lai Mohammed, former governors Chibuike Amaechi and Babatunde Fashola, as ministers, the Senate announced Tuesday. The Senate president, Bukola Saraki, read out 21 names on the list of nominees sent to the senate by the president last Wednesday.