Month: July 2021
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JAMB and myth of declining education standards by Farooq Kperogi
By Farooq Kperogi The mass failure in this year’s JAMB-administered Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has inspired yet another familiar and predictable national mourning about the fall in education standards and about the decline in English proficiency. I want to buck the trend and suggest that notions of decline in standards are usually only a…
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Oko Iyabo: Fabiyi Reacts To TAMPPAN Suspension
Following the indefinite suspension of Nollywood Actor, Yomi Fabiyi by The Theater Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners’ Association, TAMPPAN, over his recently released movie, “Oko Iyabo”, which many claim trivialised the sexual assault a teenager was subjected to. TAMPPAN announced Yomi Fabiyi’s suspension on Friday, July 9, in a statement titled, “TAMPAN suspends Yomi Fabiyi…
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Sunday Igboho: Oluwo of Iwo Writes President Buhari
Outspoken traditional Yoruba ruler and the Oluwo of Iwo land, Oba Adewale Okanbi on Friday urged President Mohammadu Buhari to slow down the security trail on Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as “Sunday Igboho”. The royal father in a letter written to the president, a copy of which was made available in Osogbo,…
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Video: TB Joshua Finally Laid To Rest (+Photos)
Foundation of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet Temitope Joshua, popularly known as TB Joshua has been laid to rest. The renowned cleric was buried at the church’s premises after an internment service that had dignitaries from around the world. TB Joshua’s corpse had yesterday arrived at the church premises in the Ikotun-Egbe area…
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Igboho Drags DSS, DG To Court Over Detention of 12 Aides
Yoruba Nation Agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday through his legal representative, Chief Yomi Aliyu (SAN) Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, to mandate and compel the State Security Services (SSS) and its Director-General, to produce the 12 people arrested in Igboho’s house on July 2 and…
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Why Public School Students In Enugu Peromed Woefully In 2021 UTME, Official
The permanent secretary of the Enugu Post Primary School Management Board, Favour Ugwuanyi, has said that most students in public schools in the state did not do well in the just concluded Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination. She further explained that it was because they were not computer literate. Mrs Ugwuanyi also said…
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774,000 Jobs: Beneficiaries To Undergo BBT, FG
The federal government has said it will take 774,000 people who participated in the just concluded Extended Special Public Works (ESPW) programme through Basic Business Training (BBT) in order to establish them with their 3 months N60,000 stipends. The spokesman of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Edmund Onwuliri, who disclosed this in a statement…
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President Buhari Approves Appointment of Ooni, Alaafin, Sultan, Others as Chancellors of 42 Federal Universities (Full List)
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of chancellors of 42 federal universities across the country with the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III and other foremost traditional rulers making the list. He has also approved the appointment of…
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Photos from the Lying-In-State for , late Cleric, TB Joshua
22The Funeral rites of renowned cleric , late Prophet T.B Joshua, continued this morning July 8 with his body laid-in-state in his church in Lagos. His wife, children, family members as well as church members took turns to pay their respect to him. The clergyman died on June 5. See more photos from his lying-in-state…
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Students’ Unionism: Don’t Be Confrontational, OAU Charges Students, Inaugurates Electoral Body
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Tuesday, while inaugurating the Electoral Body and Students Electoral Petition Commission which will pave way for the smooth conduct of students’ Union election has charged the students of the institution not to be confrontational in their approach, but tow the way of constructive engagement whenever they want to drive…