Month: June 2023
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TETFund Approves N130 Million Each For Polytechnics
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, has approved N130m for each polytechnic as zonal intervention in its 2023 intervention line. The Director of Infrastructure of the Fund, Buhari Mika’Ilu, who confirmed the development at the TETFund/NBTE sensitisation workshop on the 2023 Zonal Intervention on Skills for Rectors and Directors of Skills in Beneficiary Polytechnics in…
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Don’t Force Candidates On Us-LP Lawmakers-Elect Tell Peter Obi, Datti
Daily Independent Indications have emerged about alleged ongoing frantic attempts by the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25th Presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, forced elected Labour Party Senators and House of Representatives members of the 10th National Assembly to support candidates of his choice. Details of an alleged clandestine meeting held…
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Suspected Gunmen Shot UI Lecturer, Professor Ajewole Dead in Ibadan
Some suspected gunmen has gunned down a professor at the University of Ibadan,UI, Prof. Opeyemi Ajewole, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The incident, according to report occurred on his way home last night. The deceased was a Professor of Social and Environmental Forestry at the institution. According to a lecturer from the school who…
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UNILAG Student Shot Dead While Trying To Recover Stolen iPhone
A 23-year-old student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) simply identified as Adekunle, has been shot dead by a suspected armed robber while reportedly trying to recover a stolen iPhone. The deceased , was said to have been shot on Saturday along Harvey Road, Moore Road Junction, in the Yaba axis of the state.It is…
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ASUU, ASUP Send Message To Tinubu
Punch Newspaper University and polytechnic workers have tasked President Bola Tinubu to fund education and meet their pending demands. Over the years, the three unions including the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics alleged that the federal government did not meet their…
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Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Raping 27 Female Students
A Senegalese Koran teacher suspected of raping 27 of his female students was arrested on Monday after several weeks on the run, a police source told AFP. The man is accused of assaulting the students at his school in the holy city of Touba in central Senegal, a local police official said. The suspect went…
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Secondary School Student Stabbed Varsity Student To Death in Kogi
A secondary school student has reportedly stabbed a student of Physics in the Federal University Lokoja (FUL) in Kogi State, identified simply as Williams, to death for allegedly toasting the secondary student’s elder sister. City & Crime reports that before the incident in the late Williams’ father’s compound at the 200 Housing Estate (Old Poly…
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NLC Shelves Proposed Nationwide Strike
The Nigerian Labour Congress, on Monday, shelved its nationwide strike planned for Wednesday over removal of fuel subsidy by the Tinubu-led federal government . The decision was part of resolutions announced by the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and confirmed by the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, after a nearly six-hour…
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Tinubu Visits New Office of National Security Adviser, National Centre for Counter Terrorism (Video)
The National Security Adviser, Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) today, Monday, led the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to New office of the National Security Adviser and also to the National Centre for Counter Terrorism in Abuja. The video of President Tinubu was shared by Dada Olusegun via his twitter account on Monday. Tinubu said: “You can’t…
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Suspected Political Thugs Beat Ex-governorship Aspirant Outside Tribunal Premises (Video)
Some cane-wielding political thugs on Monday, beat a former Governorship aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Segun Showunmi, as the Election Petition Tribunal began its sitting in Abeokuta, the state capital. Daily Trust reports that the Tribunal began its inaugural sitting amid tension and watertight security. The Tribunal sitting commenced hearing…