Dire new unemployment data and a rise in the jobless rate dented Barack Obama’s reelection hopes Friday and boosted his foe Mitt Romney who brands the president a failure who cannot create jobs.

Sierra Leone on Friday launched a $3 million (2.5 million euro) project funded by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to help develop its tourism sector, officials said.

Nigerian police fired tear gas on Friday in a bid to disperse student protesters demonstrating over a name change at their university, authorities and witnesses said.

For Sesan Gbadamosi, an alumni of UNILAG and proprietor, Bell Time School, renaming the institution is an improper step taken by the Federal Government. “UNILAG is an old institution of 50 years and it is not proper to put down the reputation of the institution.

THE article published on page 20 of Thisday newspaper of Thursday May 3, 2012, whose title alluded to alleged racketeering in the FCTA Health Department makes interesting reading.