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200,000 youths to benefit from FG’s vocational training programmes —NDE
The National Directorate of Employment on Thursday (15 November) said that over 200,000 unemployed youths would benefit from its various training and empowerment programmes across the country. The NDE Director-General, Dr. Nasiru Argungu, disclosed this in Gusau at the opening ceremony of the orientation programme for new intakes to NDE programmes. Argungu, represented by the […]
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10,000 Nigerians repatriated from Libya – NEMA
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has announced that no fewer than 10,000 Nigerians, have voluntarily returned from Libya between April 2017 and October 2018. The South West Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Yakubu Suleiman, made this disclosure while receiving a new batch of 161 returnees, who arrived Lagos on Friday (12 October). Suleiman said the […]
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1,741 migrant deaths in the Mediterranean so far in 2018, says UN agency
The Organization for Migration (IOM) has released new statistics on migrant crossings to Europe via the Atlantic Ocean. So far, 1,741 people have died trying to make it to Europe through the Mediterranean. The UN agency said that a total of 82,100 migrants and refugees have reached Europe by sea in 2018 as of September […]
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Nigerian migrants rescued from Libyan prison after cell video goes viral
A group of Nigerian migrants held captive inside a detention centre in Libya have been rescued after releasing a video taken on their phones. The footage went viral on social media and caught the attention of the authorities. Sertan Sanderson of InfoMigrants reports. The migrants held in Zawiya in Libya reportedly risked their lives to […]
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More than 100 migrants feared dead in shipwreck off Libya coast
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Nigerian youths should acquire vocational skills, stakeholders appeal in Lagos
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Engr. Deremi Elebute, a Lagos-based electrical works contractor, called on youths to identify their talents to determine which handwork to learn. Speaker after speakers extolled the virtues of handwork as it insures youths against idleness and poverty / Photo: MEPN [/av_textblock] [av_heading tag=’h2′ padding=’10’ heading=’Nigerian youths should acquire vocational skills, stakeholders […]
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Libya: ‘Help us get out of this hell
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You are on your own, Buhari tells Nigerian irregular migrants
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Campaign to Promote Safe Migration in Nigeria II kicks off
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Nigeria has highest rejection rate of African asylum applications in Europe
