Month: October 2024
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Naira Appreciates Slightly at Parallel Market Against U.S Dollar
The Naira yesterday appreciated to N1,680 per dollar in the parallel market compared to N1,690 per dollar last weekend. Similarly, the Naira appreciated to N1,552.92 per dollar in the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market, NAFEM. Data from FMDQ showed that the indicative exchange rate for NAFEM fell to N1,552.92 per dollar from N1,641.27 per dollar…
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15-year-old Student Drags Education Ministry, NUC, JAMB To Court Over Admission Age Policy
A 15-year-old secondary school student, Chinaemere Opara has dragged the education ministry, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and the National Universities Commission (NUC) over Nigeria’s tertiary institution admission age policy. Opara filed the suit at the federal high court in Abuja through his lawyer father Maxwell Opara. In the originating motion marked “FHC/ABJ/CS/1512/2024”,…
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Libyan FA Reacts To Super Eagles’ Players Ordeals at Airport
The Libyan Football Association has officially reacted to the mistreatment of Nigeria’s Super Eagles and their delegates during their arrival in Libya. The Nigerian national football team endured a frustrating ordeal upon landing in Libya as they were left stranded at the airport by local officials. The Libyan Football Association also stated that the issue…
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Libyan Authorities Hold Eagles Hostage at Airport
Super Eagles media team on Sunday night confirmed that players and officials of Nigeria’s senior men’s national team were held hostage by Libyan authorities upon their arrival at Al Abraq Airport in Al Abaq, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. In a video posted by the Eagles media team, the players and officials, along with their luggage,…
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Academic Transcripts: How Universities fleece applicants, rake in billions
Vanguard News Sometime in June 2023, a message was sent to a top editor in a top Nigerian daily newspaper by the daughter of a late renowned columnist. It read, “I believe you will know someone in LASU, I need my transcript urgently or I will lose a job. I paid since 7th May and…
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Vice Chancellors Give Updates on Promised Subsidy on Electricity Tariff in Varsities
Punch Newspaper One month after President Bola Tinubu approved a 50 per cent electricity subsidy for public hospitals and educational institutions, the subsidy is yet to be implemented, Sunday PUNCH learnt. Expressing concern about the delay, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities lamented that universities still grappled with high electricity bills. Speaking in an…
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How Governors, LG Chairmen Enter Deals to Bypass Order on Council Funds
Punch Newspaper Some governors in the country may be getting more desperate to share in the monthly allocation to local governments if revelations by some sources, including a council chairman and a party candidate, are anything to go by. Findings by Sunday PUNCH showed that some governors have devised means to continue cornering council funds…
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Former Governor Loses Son To Road Accident
Son of former Governor of Kaduna State, Faisal Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, has died in a ghastly road accident on Saturday. He died while travelling along the Kaduna- Zaria dual carriageway Saturday evening, according to a family source. “The accident occurred along the Kaduna-Zaria highway this evening. He was taken to an undisclosed hospital where he…
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APC Councillorship Candidate Stone To Death in Ogun
Some Yet-to-be-identified assailants have killed Adeleke Adeyinka, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Ward 15, Abeokuta South in the November Local Government elections in Ogun State. Adeyinka, a former Ward 15 Youth Leader, Abeokuta South, was gruesomely murdered in the Jide Jones area of Abeokuta Central Business District within the State capital on Saturday. It…
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Bill To Establish Bola Tinubu University Passes First Reading at National Assembly
The House of Representatives has passed for first reading a bill to establish the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Federal University of Nigerian Languages, which could add another university to the existing institutions. Sponsored by Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu and eight others, the bill aims to promote the learning of Nigerian languages. According to Section II, Part…