By tying cash benefits to health & education, Brazil is breaking the cycle of poverty 12 years and 26,000 people: the biggest basic income experiment yet Brazil’s conditional cash transfer scheme, Bolsa Familia, has helped 36 million citizens emerge from extreme poverty since 2003. Through Bolsa Familia, the country’s poorest householdsContinue Reading

  Championship By Abolade Ogundimu Abuja, Oct. 7, 2018 (NAN) The Para-soccer Federation of Nigeria celebrates 30th anniversary of the Nigeria-invented game with the 6th Para-soccer World Polio Day Championship in Lagos from Oct. 18 to Oct. 24, says Musbau Didi, the federation’s President. Didi made the disclosure in anContinue Reading

By Mohammed Mamman/Ahmed Abba Hajiya Khadija Ibrahim, minister of state foreign Affairs, has defeated her step son Mohammed Ibrahim to clinch the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for Damaturu/Gulani/Gujba/Tarmuwa, Yobe federal constituency. Prof Abba Gambo, the returning officer of the election which ran into the night announced on Wednesday thatContinue Reading

Saudi Arabia will build an oil refinery in Pakistan near the Iran border, officials said on Thursday amid warnings that the move may trigger a conflict between the Persian Gulf rivals. The oil facility will be located near Gwadar sea port in the South-Western province of Balochistan, Petroleum Minister, SarwarContinue Reading