Month: December 2020
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300-level Unilorin Student Commits Suicide After He Was Duped N300 million
A 300-level student of the Department of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, Gbenga Favour Olaoye-Akanbi, has committed suicide after he was allegedly duped by a forex trader, Eseka Chuckwutem Gospel (ESG). Family sources told our correspondent that Olaoye-Akanbi was discovered dead on Sunday after drinking poison. The 19-year-old student was said to have invested over N300…
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COVID-19: FG Imposes Five Weeks Restrictions, Issues 15 Advisories
As the cases of Covid-19 continue to rise in the country, the Federal Government has imposed five weeks restrictions to prevent a further spread of COVD-19. The second wave of the pandemic has hit the country with intense ferocity as it is across the world. The initial restrictions in line with the established protocols will…
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Unilag Loses €40 million research grants during 3-month crisis, Vice Chancellor
The recently reinstated University of Lagos, Unilag, Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has said the university lost about £40 million in research grants by faculty members during the crisis that ravaged the citadel of learning for almost three months, August to November, 2020. He stated this on Monday during an interactive session with newsmen in Akoka,…
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Varsities To Reopen In January, as Minister Gives Updates on Talk With ASUU
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, says the Academic Activities in Nigeria Universities will resume January. He says the negotiations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government had reached 98 percent, adding that it remains only two percent to be completed He spoke Monday in Alor, Idemili…
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Women Hold One Million Rally in Abuja To Appreciate Buhari Over Release Of Kankara Schoolboys
Nigerian women in their hundreds, on Monday, thronged the streets of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, singing and jubilating in appreciation of President Muhammadu Buhari for the safe return of over 300 schoolboys in Kankara, Katsina State. The group, under the aegis of Women For Buhari (WFB), said they are proud of the president for…
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11 NYSC Members Test Positive for COVID-19 in Taraba
Eleven National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) members undergoing orientation in Taraba have tested positive for COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Innocent Vakkai, the Chairman of the COVID-19 Technical Committee in Taraba, announced this on Monday at a news conference organised by the state Ministry of Information and Orientation in Jalingo. He said that the victims were currently…
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CBN Withdraws Operating Licenses of 42 Micro Finance Banks (Full List)
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has withdrawn the operating licenses of 42 microfinance banks (MfBs). The affected banks have been shut down. The affected banks are: Hedgeworth MFB, Utako, Abuja; Future Growth MFB, Utako, Abuja; Bagwai MFB, Bagwai LGA, Kano; Ere City MFB, Oriade LGA, Osun State; Cafon MFB, Garki II, Abuja; Akcofed MFB,…
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Man Who Will Be Interviewing A Lady Who Insulted Him During #Bbnaija Reveals What She Should Expect After Interview
A man who will be interviewing a lady who insulted him on Twitter months ago has promised to remind her of it during the interview. The Twitter user said the insult came during an argument over Big Brother Naija. He said the lady called him a “black lips poor boy” and told him his father…
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Police, Army ‘Fight’ Over Rescue Operation of Islamiyya Students in Katsina
From Agaju Madugba, Katsina and Molly Kilete, Abuja Controversy, yesterday, dogged the reported fresh abduction in Katsina State as the military and the police gave contradictory account of the number of persons rescued and how the operations were undertaken. While the police authorities pegged the number at 84, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) said 39. Both,…
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Nigeria @ 60: 1960 IN RETROSPECT & THE CALL FOR INTROSPECTION
By Kayode Joseph Adewale ‘This is a wonderful day, and it is all the more wonderful because we have awaited it with increasing impatience, compelled to watch one country after another overtaking us on the road when we had so nearly reached our goal. But now we have acquired our rightful status, and I feel…