Month: July 2023
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Tinubu hugs deadline, replaces 4 names on ministerial list
Vanguard News About four days to the expiration of the 60-day provision for the President to submit names of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation, President Bola Tinubu is yet to fulfil this constitutional provision. Recall that President Tinubu took the oath of office on May 29, when former President Muhammadu Buhari…
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Recruitment: NDLEA Releases Final List of Successful Candidates
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has released the final lists of successful candidates for the 2023 recruitment exercise for Narcotic Officer and Narcotic Assistant cadres. A statement released on Sunday by the agency spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said successful candidates for cadet, trainees are to report at the NDLEA Academy in Jos and NSCDC College…
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#EndSARS: Lagos Govt Reacts To Viral Memo
The Lagos state government says the bodies of 103 victims of #EndSARS protest in 2020 prepared for mass burial were not from the Lekki tollgate. The state government, in a statement released on Sunday, said no dead body was retrieved from the Lekki tollgate as against the content in the now Viral Memo . “For…
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Call For Election Rerun: What Tinubu Told Tribunal
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appealed to justices of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) in Abuja to exclude the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his party in the event of any rerun presidential election, claiming that only him and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji…
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ASUU Clears Air On Choice of Peter Obi as Presidential Candidate
The Zonal Coordinator, Lagos Zone of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Adelaja Odukoya, has stated that there was nowhere he stated that Nigeria needed the Labour Candidate in the 2023 Presidential election, Mr Peter Obi nor did he ever call President Bola Ahmed Tinubu a slave. Professor Odukoya, in a release on Saturday,…
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After 40 Days In Detention, Pressure Mounts On DSS To Release Ex-EFCC Chair, Bawa
Daily Trust Today, it will be 40 days since the immediate past chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been in the custody of the State Security Service (SSS). The embattled anti-graft czar, who has been languishing in the detention facility of the secret police in Abuja, popularly called “Yellow…
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Parents React To Increment in Unity Schools’ Tuition Fees
More concerned parents of Unity College students in the country have called on the Federal Government to revisit the sudden increase in fees for their children, in a bid to make education accessible to all. The parents made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Lagos. The Federal…
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Just In: UNILAG Increases Tuition Fees
The management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Lagos has increased fees for undergraduate students. A source at the meeting noted that the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola said: “it is no longer news that the University of Lagos tuition has not changed in the last 20 years but the cost of managing education…
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Senate defers recess for ministerial screening
The Senate will push forward the commencement of its annual vacation to enable it screen ministarial nominees, it was learnt yesterday. The list is being expected from the office of the President early next week. A principal officer told The Nation that the Senate, due to proceed on recess July 27 till September, will be…
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Subsidiary Removal: Tinubu Approves ISF For 36 States
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the establishment of an Infrastructure Support Fund (ISF) for the 36 states. It is part of easures to cushion the effects of the petrol subsidy removal, according to Presidential spokesman Dele Alake. He said this was made known during yesterday’s meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) in…