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The Federal Government has on Thursday, unfolded plans to mainstream the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), initiative into the United Nations programme. This is to give the scheme a global outlook where other nations can tap from its initiative. The Minister of Youths Development, Boni Haruna, who spoke in Abuja, during a meeting with the officials UN-Habitat and NYSC, said the scheme had recorded massive achievements since its inception ADVERTISEMENT According to him, setting all programmes in the scheme into the UN will attract global appreciation, even as it creates a platform for national integration and youth development. Boni also said the essence of the meeting is not only to re-establish relationship with the UN but to create opportunities for Nigerians to be seen as an active contributor. In his remarks,the Director of Global Monitoring and Research Division in the UN-Habitat, Professor Banji Oyeyinka, underscored the need to document NYSC for glob

The dead are still being mourned; those who seem to have survived are painfully hanging on with varying degrees of burns. The growing number of the bereaved is disturbing as no fewer than eleven people have been confirmed dead following, in Saturday night’s petrol tanker explosion at Molete, Ibadan, while 16 others, including Mr Samson Oyewo, a staff of the Nigerian Tribune, are currently under intensive care at the University College Hospital, Ibadan Central Hospital and Immaculate Hospital, Ibadan. A visit to the morgue of the State Hospital, Ring Road, Adeoyo, by the Nigerian Tribune, revealed that 10 corpses had been deposited there. The morgue attendant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, stated that “We got 10 corpses which included children and adults.” The raging inferno which spread from Molete round about to Bode area of Ibadan lasted from about 8 pm Saturday night till about 3am, on Sunday, breezed past Prolek filling station before concerted efforts of