Month: September 2024
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NNPC Outlines Determinant Factors For Dangote’s Petrol Price
Punch Newspaper As Nigerians eagerly await the release of Premium Motor Spirit, popular known as petrol, from the $20bn Dangote Petroleum Refinery, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited says it will lift the product from the plant on September 15 but outlined factors that would determine its price. It said foreign exchange rates and market…
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FG Launches Sale of 50kg of Rice at Subsidized Rate
The Federal government has launched the sale of 50kg bags of rice at a subsidized rate of N40,000, requiring buyers to present their National Identification Number (NIN) for verification. Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, announced this during the inauguration in Abuja on Thursday, stating that the initiative will be implemented nationwide. “It…
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FG Gives Condition For WASSCE, NECO Candidates Below 18 To Write Exam
The Federal Government has given condition to the policy announced last month over the age restrictions placed on students willing to write terminal exams in their respective secondary schools stating that, exceptionally intelligent children below 18 years may be allowed to write the West African School Certificate Examinations, WASCE and the National Examinations Council, NECO…
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Missing FUNAAB Student Reportedly Murdered, Nigerians Demand Justice
Nigerians on social media are demanding justice for a 300-level student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, Idowu Christianah over her reported death by her abductors. Unconfirmed report has it that, the young lady has been murdered by a young man simply identified as Ayomide, whom according to a ‘source’ is a serial…
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Former VCs React, as NUC Moves To Regulate Ceremonies in Varsities
The Guardian The slipshod management of some ceremonies in public tertiary institutions over time has stirred the need to return to standard practices and recover some dignity that the Nigerian university system has lost. The move, spearheaded by the National Universities Commission (NUC), is not without questions over the commission’s remit to perform such roles,…
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NYSC DG Gives Hints on When Corps Members Will Start Receiving 70,000 Allowance
The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yusha’u Ahmed, has told the serving corps members that their monthly allowance will increase as soon as civil servants start receiving the new minimum wage. The DG stated this while addressing corps members at Kebbi State Orientation Camp, Dakingari and Sokoto State Orientation…
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Polytechnic Students Plan Mass Protest Against Oloyede Over NYSC Stalemate
Sahara Reporters The National Association of Polytechnic students (NAPS) has called for a protest against the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) boss, Prof Is-haq Oloyede. This was communicated in a statement by the Senate arm of the union. In the letter NAPS asked that all federal polytechnics, state polytechnics, private polytechnics, federal college of Agriculture,…
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22,000 Nigerian Graduates From Togo, Benin Varsities in Limbo Over FG’s Invalidation of Certificates
Vanguard News The decision to invalidate degree certificates obtained from some universities in Togo and Benin Republic from 2017 till date has left over 22,000 Nigerian graduates of the institutions confused and with their fate hanging in the balance, it was gathered. A group, the Coalition of Stakeholders in Education, CSE, stated this in Ikeja,…
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Fuel Hike: NANS Announces Nationwide Protest
The National Association of Nigerian Students The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has announced a nationwide protest, slated for September 15, 2024, across major cities in Nigeria to express displeasure over the new pump price announced by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC). This was stated by NANS, adding that, “The protest, tagged ‘Fuel…
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Dangote Speaks On Petrol Price, Says Fuel To Hit Stations In 48hrs
Kano-born Billionaire, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, on Tuesday, spoke on pricing for petrol produced at his 650,000 barrels per day facility. Dangote who owns the biggest Indigenous Refinery in Africa said as soon as his company finalises modalities with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the product will hit the market. “Our PMS (Premium Motor…