Month: February 2024
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Suspected Cultist Burnt Alive Over Alleged Murder of Final Year Student
A suspected cultist was burnt alive yesterday by a mob in Uyo, Akwa state capital for alleged involvement in Sunday morning killing of Daniel Okon, a final year Computer Science student of the University of Uyo (UNIUYO). The suspect who suffered the jungle justice along with three gang members who escaped the lynching were accused…
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$6.2m: EX-SGF Accuses Emefiele-led CBN of Documents Forgery
Former Secretary of the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said on Tuesday that $6.2m was released from the Central Bank of Nigeria in February 2023 using a forged document. Mustapha stated this when he appeared as the fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing fraud trial of the immediate-past CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, before the…
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President Tinubu Confers National Honors on Super Eagles (Video)
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has coffered national honours on all members of the Super Eagles squad that won the silver medal at the just concluded Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cote d’Ivoire. Mr President also granted a plot of land in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and a flat to each of them for…
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IPPIS: ASUU Raises Fresh Alarm Over Mode of Salaries Payment
Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the Federal Government is still using the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System to pay lecturers salaries. National President, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview, complained that the FG had yet to implement its promise to remove tertiary institutions from the Integrated Payroll and…
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Naira Reaches all-time Low at Official Market
The naira fell to a new all-time-low of N1,534/$ on the official Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market on Monday. This indicates a loss of 3.93 per cent fall or N58 from the N1,476.13/$ the national currency closed last week Friday, according to FMDQ Exchange, a platform that publishes official foreign exchange trading in the country.…
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Super Eagles Head Coach Speaks On AFCON Finals With Ivory Coast
Super Eagles coach Jose Peseiro has admitted the Elephants of Ivory Coast were the better side following the former’s loss in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Sebastien Haller scored a dramatic late winner as hosts Ivory Coast fought back to beat Victor Osimhen’s Nigeria 2-1 in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations final and…
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Super Eagles Player Named AFCON Best Player
Super Eagles defender William Troost-Ekong was named the best player of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations following his commanding display for Nigeria at the tournament, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Ekong scored three goals at the tournament, including one in the final, which unfortunately wasn’t enough to guide Nigeria to a fourth AFCON title. The…
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Access Holdings Confirms Death of CEO, Wife, Son in U.S. Helicopter Crash
Access Holdings has confirmed the death of its Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Herbert Wigwe. Wigwe died in a helicopter crash on Friday with his wife, son, and a former Group Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc, Abimbola Ogunbanjo. The bank in a statement on Sunday signed by the Company’s Group Secretary, Sunday Ekwochi,…
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Access Holdings Reacts To Reported Death of CEO, Herbert Wigwe
Access Holdings Plc has on Saturday revealed that it lacks specific information regarding the crash of a helicopter, believed to be carrying, Herbert Wigwe, Access Bank Chief Executive Officer, CEO, his wife, son and three other passengers, in a Southern California desert. Wigwe, his wife, Chizoba, his son, and Ogunbanjo all died in a helicopter…
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Kwara Female Final Year Student Commits Suicide
A female final year student at Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Rashidat Shittu, has reportedly committed suicide over her poor academic status. Vanguard Correspondent reliably gathered from her colleagues that the deceased committed suicide ahead of their upcoming exams by drinking “sniper.” Shittu was said to have been pronounced dead on arrival at the University…