Month: March 2021
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NYSC Concludes Plan To Administer COVID-19 Vaccine To Corps Members
The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, is concluding plans to administer the COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca, to thousands of 2021 Batch A corps members who are presently undergoing their orientation exercise across the 37 camps nationwide. SaharaReporters learnt that the NYSC authorities had met with the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja for approval and…
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UK Govt Suspends Recruitment of Health Workers From Nigeria, 46 Other Countries
The United Kingdom has suspended the recruitment of health and care workers from Nigeria and 46 other countries as confirmed in its updated Code of Practice (CoP). Africa Check had earlier reported that about 5, 250 Nigerian-trained doctors are on the UK books as at April 2018, a rise of 10 per cent on the…
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UI, LASU, UNILAG, 3 Others Emerge Best Varsities in Latest Ranking
The University of Ibadan (UI) has dislodged Covenant University (CU) as Nigeria’s best varsity on the Time Higher Education’s (THE) 2021 Emerging Economies University Ranking. The faith based institution, Covenant University had emerged Nigeria’s highest-ranked institution on the list last year, taking the 91st spot. But in the new list, released on Tuesday, CU ranked…
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UNILORIN Breaks Silence Over Reaction Trailing Female Student Encounter With Security Personnel
The University of Ilorin, Unilorin, has broken its silence over the mixed reactions trailing the outburst of one of its students, tanwa who was grilled by the security personnel of the institution over her choice of dress on Wednesday. Displeased by her ‘horrible’ experience in the hands of the security, Tanwa took to the bird…
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‘Absence of Translators’ Stalls Trial Of Venezuelan Diplomat, Alex Saab
“Absence of translators” has stalled the case between Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab and Cape Verden government , the stallment of the case has forced the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court to adjourn the case to Monday, March 15. This latest development has made it third time within three months the ECOWAS court…
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Oyo: OPC Members Detained Over Invasion of Wakili’s Settlement Released
OPC Members Detained At Iyaganku Police Station in Oyo Released 📸 Inside Oyo
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NYSC: OAU students lament over missing Stream 1, Batch A, 2021
Students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, lamented over missing the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Stream 1, Batch A of 2021. The students, who lamented over the delay in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday, in Ile-Ife, attributed their grievance on missing the Stream 1, Batch A service to…
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Oyo: I Paid Ransom For Release of My Sons, Alleged Kidnappers’ Kinpin, Wakili Claims
Alleged kidnappers’ Kingpin in Oyo, Iskilu Wakili, who was arrested by some members of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, and other security outfits in Kajola, Ibarapa area of Oyo state on Sunday, has distanced himself with spate of Kidnappings and other social vices in the communities. The aged Fulani leader claimed that, he is also a…
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NDLEA Nabs Suspected Drug Baron At Lagos Airport With Three Parcels of Cocaine (Photos+Video)
A suspected drug baron, Hassan Bishi Taiwo, has been apprehended by operatives of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport MMIA command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for being in possession of three parcels of cocaine concealed in a false bottom created in his suitcase. Hassan was nabbed at the E-Arrival Hall of the…
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Wakili: OPC Debunks Police Claim Over Allegation Against Members in Oyo
Oodua Peoples’ congress has denied the claim by the Oyo state Police command saying that the group did not burn any structure belonging to the notorious Fulani warlord Iskilu Wakili who was arrested by the group in Ibarapa land of Oyo state. The group has also refuted the assertion that it members killed some people…