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FG Pays Tuition Fees For 20,000 , As Over 280,000 Students Register For Loan
The Federal Government has paid the tuition fees of 20,000 students directly to their institutions in the ongoing Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) scheme. The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NELFUND, Akintunde Sawyer revealed this on Thursday while speaking during a summit and sensitization programme by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS)…
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OAU Authorities React To Death of Final Year Student Killed in Car Accident
Authorities the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, have reacted to the death of a final year female student of the institution, Esu Rita Ema. The deceased, who was a student of Foreign Languages was crushed to death by a private vehicle while attempting to cross the Ife-Ibadan highway on the way to submit her final year…
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Murder of Kwara Undergraduate Sparks Security Concerns at Al-Hikmah Varsity
The management of Kwara-based private institution, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin (AUI), has assured parents and guardians of students in the school of the adequate safety of their children and wards. This followed the confusion that resulted in the murder of the 21-year-old student of Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Kwara State. The police had…
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Medical Expert Links Bottle-feeding of Babies To Ear Problem
Dr Aisha Mohammed of the Peadiatric Department, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), said research has shown that 14 per cent of ear problems in infants are as a result of bottle feeding. The pediatrician made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi on Thursday, adding that ear…
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NAFDAC Seizes Petrol Tankers For ‘Transporting Vegetable Oil’ In Lagos
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized three petrol tankers used to convey edible vegetable oil in Lagos State. In a post on X on Wednesday, the agency said the oil had reportedly been trans-loaded into the tankers from an edible oil depot. “Concerned about the potential health risks…
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Fake Certificates: Two African Countries Write JAMB To Verify Records of Nigerian Admission Seekers
Vanguard News Following cases of fake certification recently detected by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, examination boards in Kenya and Uganda have written the federal government to verify records presented by Nigerian candidates seeking admissions into tertiary institutions in their respective countries. JAMB made this known in a document, titled ”Registrar’s Report on…
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FG Reacts To ASUU’s 21-Day Strike Notice
Punch Newspaper The Federal Ministry of Education, on Wednesday, said the Federal Government was working to avert another strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Rising from its National Executive Council meeting, held at the University of Ibadan last weekend, ASUU had given the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to meet its outstanding demands…
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Police Parade Motorcyclist in Osun Over Alleged Rape of OAU Student
The Osun State Police Command has paraded a motorcyclist, Damilare Jacob, for reportedly robbing and raping a female student (name withheld) in the ancient city of Ile-Ife, area of Osun State. Parading the suspect at the police headquarters in Osogbo on Wednesday, Command Spokesperson Yemisi Opalola said, the suspect, Damilare was arrested after the victim…
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Documents Reveal Dangote’s brother among Importers of petroleum products from Malta
DAILY NIGERIAN More facts have emerged on the identities of companies and individuals behind the importation of substandard petroleum products from Malta, with Sayyu Dantata, the half-brother of the president of Dangote Group Aliko Dangote as one of the importers. In July, Mr Dangote alleged that some officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC…
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ASUU Gives FG 21-Day Nationwide Strike Notice
Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has informed the Federal Government of its plans to embark on a nationwide strike by placing the government on a 21-day notice, The PUNCH reports. Sources within the National Executive Council of ASUU confirmed the development to our correspondent in Abuja on Monday. The notice was…
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