Year: 2024
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27 states, FCT yet to set up minimum wage panels
Punch Newspaper Twenty-seven states and the Federal Capital Territory have yet to set up committees to implement the recently approved N70,000 minimum wage. The states are Plateau, Kebbi, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Bayelsa, Delta, Osun, Ekiti, Zamfara, Benue, Enugu, Taraba, Gombe, Kogi, Enugu, Adamawa, Niger, Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Katsina, Kaduna, Cross River and…
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UI, UNILORIN, UNIMAID, Other Varsities Students Celebrate Receipt of FG’s N20, 000 Monthly Stipends for Upkeep
Punch Newspaper Some university students who recently benefitted from the N20,000 stipend paid by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund have begun celebrating the receipt of the money. While some took to social media to share their surprise, others narrated how they spent the money on foodstuffs. A few said it took the burden of care…
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UNIBEN Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment, Management Reacts
The University of Benin, UNIBEN, has launched a panel to probe allegations of sexual harassment against a professor in the Faculty of Arts. The panel was inaugurated following a complaint made by a graduate on social media, who claimed to have experienced sexual harassment by the professor during her undergraduate studies. The panel, however, did…
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LG Autonomy: Supreme Court CTC’s Indicates 4-year Tenure To Council Chairmen, Councillors
The Supreme Court of Nigeria, in a landslide judgement on local government autonomy, ordered that the four-year tenure enjoyed by executives be extended to the offices of all local government chairmen across the country. This is contained in the Certified True Copy (CTC) of a judgement delivered by Justice Mohammed Garba and six others on…
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Recruitment: Police Service Commission Sends Message To Shortlisted Candidates
The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Thursday alerted the successful candidates from the recently concluded 2022 Police Recruitment exercise to begin training this Saturday, August 10th, at various Police colleges across the country. In a statement released in Abuja by the Spokesperson of the Police Service Commission, Mr. Ikechukwu Ani, the training will run from…
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NYSC Mobilization: JAMB Writes Varsities, Polytechnics Heads, Others
Punch Newspaper The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has pointed accusing finger to some tertiary institutions of aiding candidates with irregular or illegal admissions to falsify records towards mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps. JAMB made the allegation in a letter addressed to vice-chancellors, provosts and registrars of tertiary institutions in the country.…
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Tinubu Appoints New DG NAPTIP, Six others (Full List)
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of seven persons to head strategic agencies and programmes under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. This was contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale on Tuesday evening. The statement was…
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Newly Elected Female SUG President Appoints 50 Aides
The newly elected first female President of the Student Union Government (SUG), University of Calabar (UNICAL), Comr. Blessing Alims, has appointed 50 individuals as advisers in her administration. Blessing Alims, who gained widespread attention on social media for being the first female president in the university’s 49-year history, announced the unprecedented appointments shortly after her…
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JAMB Overrules CUIIA, Insists on CAPS for all Admissions
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it will no longer welcome absorption of illegal admissions through the window ‘Condonement of Illegal Admissions Without Registration Number.’ To this end, it has terminated the Condonement of Undisclosed Institutional Illegal Admissions (2017 to 2020) (CUIIA). Spokesperson of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, stated this at a…
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Food inflation: Students Groan on Campuses, as Parents, FG React
Vanguard News LAGOS: When Elisha (other names withheld), a student in one of the public universities in Lagos State came home during a break, his father could barely recognise him, as though not sick, he was visibly emaciated, no thanks to malnutrition. On campus, the accounting education student told his inquisitive father that he was…