Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied discussing the release of Nnamdi Kanu with the South East governors in Enugu on Tuesday. This is contained in a statement by the Special Assistant on Media to the former President, Kehinde Akinyemi on Wednesday in Abeokuta. He said that contrary to...
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A group, ‘The Kaduna Citizens Watch for Good Governance’, has lodged a complaint with the EFCC and ICPC in Kaduna against the former Governor of the state, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. Mr Victor Duniya, Chairman of the group, made this known while addressing a press briefing on Wednesday in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has shown its commitment to education equity by disbursing N507,654,000 to cover the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) fees for 25,075 final-year students in public schools across the state. This was disclosed by the state’s Commissioner of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has given full accreditation for all the take-off academic programmes of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara, Kogi State. A statement signed by Registrar of CUSTECH, Ms. Olufunke Hudson, said the full accreditation status highlights the...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Director-General/CEO of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Abisoye Coker-Odusote, has reassured Nigerians, at home, and in the diaspora, that robust measures are in place to safeguard the nation’s database from cyber threats. The Director-General, who gave the assurance in...
Students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) on Wednesday took to the streets, blocking the ever-busy Benin-Ore Highway to protest weeks of power outage on the campus. The students, who have only two weeks until their first semester examinations, said the situation was severely affecting their...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has accredited no fewer than 21 academic courses for Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi. Also accredited were all courses offered at the seven Colleges of Education and Polytechnics affiliated to the University. In addition, all the nine Courses...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A delegation of journalists from the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Borno State Council of the NUJ, led by Vice Chairman Abdulkarim Haruna and Chairman of the Correspondents Chapel Ndahi Salihu Marama, on Tuesday paid a condolence...
Following the release of the teaser for the docu-drama ‘Is It Your Money?’, telling the story of Nigeria’s first female oil minister who is on the run from her country and on trial in the United Kingdom, Chude Jideonwo – director of the film and host of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA), 7 Division, Nigerian Army Maimalari Cantonment Maiduguri, marked the Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL) 2024 with a range of community-focused activities. The events included a free medical outreach at Shuwari Community, Baga Road, Maiduguri, and the...
President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Dr Omar Touray, has said the bloc is planning a special summit on the future of regional integration to address the subregion’s multifaceted challenges. Touray announced this at the 52nd Ordinary Session of ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund) has charged lecturers overseeing career centres in colleges of education to develop skills in modern technology and pass on relevant knowledge to students to make them employable and competitive with their peers globally. Executive Secretary of TETFund,...
Some Lagos workers on Wednesday lamented the persistent rainfall which is causing gridlock and flooding in many parts of the state. NAN reports that Lagos is experiencing consistent rainfall, which is causing gridlock and flooding in various parts of the city. Some workers who spoke with the...
Around 235 million Pounds (298 million dollars) is expected to be withdrawn from ATMs on Thursday as people fit trips to cash machines around casting their general election votes. This is according to a forecast from UK cash access and cash machine network Link reported on Wednesday. The...
The death toll from a stampede that broke out at a religious gathering in northern India has risen to 121, minister of Uttar Pradesh state government said on Wednesday. Thousands of people had gathered on Tuesday for a prayer meeting and sermon organised by a local guru at...
Former Conservative British prime minister Boris Johnson has lent his support to the incumbent prime minister, Rishi Sunak, on the campaign trail. This is coming as pollsters forecast their party could “win a lower share of the vote than at any past general election.” At a rally on...
The Governorship Candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP in Kogi State, Alhaji Murtala Yakubu Ajaka has lauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the appointment of Alhaji Mohammed Sheidu as the Executive. Secretary of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund, saying that his choice would reinforce the integrity and...
The South-East Governors has resolved to interface with the Federal Government to secure the release of the Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The forum also resolved to visit President Bola Tinubu to discuss pressing issues concerning the South- East region. These are...
The House of Representatives has ordered probes into the N1.12 trillion anchor borrowers scheme, an initiative of the Federal Government’s interventions and agricultural funding through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Also included in the probe is the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), the...
Minister of State, Petroleum Resources (Oil), Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, has called for more investments in the oil and gas industry to ramp up production and boost foreign exchange earnings. Lokpobiri made the call on Tuesday at the Nigerian Oil and Gas (NOG) Energy Week currently holding in Abuja. The...