Year: 2022
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Nigerian Students To Gain More Access To Financial Aid, as Lawmakers Pass Students’ Loan Bill
Nigerian students in institutions of higher learning would gain more access to financial assistance as the two chambers of the National Assembly have passed the students’ loan bill, according to Lanre Lasisi, spokesman to Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila. He said in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday that Mr Gbajabiamila sponsored the bill. He said the…
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Reps Orders NUC Boss to Produce Vice Chancellors Over Illegal Budgets Approval, Others
Nigerian Tribune The Public Accounts Committee (PAC)of the House of Representatives on Wednesday directed the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Professor Abubakar Rasheed Adamu to produce before it all the Vice Chancellors whose universities were indicted by the Office of the Auditor General of the federation over illegal approval of budgets and…
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Pandemonium in Osun Community, as Hoodlums Set Palace Ablaze, Prince Shot
The Nation Newspaper There was pandemonium in Ikirun community, the headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun State on Wednesday when a prince, Lukman Gboleru, was reportedly shot as security operatives attempted to forcefully open the palace. The Nation reports several protests have trailed the appointment of Oba Yinusa Akadiri as the new monarch…
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200-level Dental Student Tortured To Death by Friends in Sokoto Over Alleged Phone Theft
Daily Trust A 200-level Dental student of the Sultan Abdurrahman College of Health Technology, Gwadabawa, Sokoto, was killed by his friends who were also students of the college over alleged phone theft. The victim who was identified as Lukman hailed from Kalambaina in the Wamakko Local Government Area of Sokoto state. Daily Trust reliably gathered…
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Updated: After Today, CBN Will Redesign, Reissue Naira Notes Every Five To Eight Years – Emefiele
Vanguard News President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled the new currency notes on Wednesday morning before the federal executive council (FEC) meeting at the state house, Abuja. Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (BN), was in attendance during the unveiling ceremony. The unveiling of the new notes took place before the weekly Federal…
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Our Female Undergraduates Are Not Being Raped by Varsity’s Workers – CU Management
The Covenant University has denied allegations making the rounds in some sections of social media that female students of the school are being sexually harassed and raped by workers of the institution. Vreporters gathered that some Nigerians have taken to social media platforms people to accuse some workers of sexually harassing and raping female undergraduates…
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NYSC Gets Interim Director After Fadah’s Removal
Christy Uba, has been directed to oversee the affairs of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, following the removal of former Director General of the scheme, Brigadier General Muhammad Kaku Fadah, by President Muhammadu Buhari. The interim appointment of Uba who is a director of the scheme was contained in a statement signed by NYSC…
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Nigerian Students Paying Too Much For Education, They Can’t Be Made To Pay More – ASUU President Laments
President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has lamented the skyrocket tuition fees being paid by the Nigerian Students. He said it would be counterproductive and ill advised for the government to introduce new circle of fees in the system in the harsh economic realities of the times. Osodeke expressed the view…
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Saudi Arabia Declares Public Holiday After Trashing Argentina
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has announced to the public that, there will be a public holiday in the country on Wednesday after the Saudi team defeated Argentina 2-1 at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. According to Arabnews, King Salman approved a suggestion made by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to celebrate the national…
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Messi Speaks On Loss To Saudi Arabia
Argentina’s forward #10 Lionel Messi reacts during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group C football match between Argentina and Saudi Arabia at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, north of Doha on November 22, 2022. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)