Year: 2025
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Meet Silas Adekunle, world’s highest-paid robotics engineer
Vanguard News Let’s talk about Silas Adekunle, a brilliant Nigerian inventor and entrepreneur who made waves by creating the world’s first intelligent gaming robot. Born in Nigeria, Silas moved to the UK at 12 and went on to earn a first-class robotics degree and an honorary Doctor of Technology degree from the University of the…
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7 Things To Know About Newly Appointed Super Eagles Head Coach, His Roles
Vanguard News The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced the appointment of Eric Chelle as the new head coach of the Super Eagles. As the team looks to turn its fortunes around, here are seven key things you should know about the man tasked with steering Nigeria’s football giants back to glory. What to know…
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Arrangement For The Payment of N77, 000 To Corps Members Concluded – NYSC DG
Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, has re-assured corps members that they would start receiving N77,000 minimum wage. Speaking in Abuja when he commissioned a staff bus donated by Capital Express Insurance company, the DG said arrangements for their increased allowances to be paid have been concluded. He assured corps…
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Eye Witness Gives Graphic Details of How Student Brought Bomb To Abuja School
Channels TV An eyewitness account of the explosion that rocked the Islamic school in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday, has said the bomb was brought to school by one of the students. The TV correspondent who visited the school on Tuesday said the school is a three-classroom block, built for nomadic education (Almajiri…
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HND Graduates Protest Proposed Policy Barring Them To Participate in NYSC
Graduates with Higher National Diploma part-time backgrounds staged a protest on Monday at the Lagos NYSC secretariat, decrying a proposed policy barring them from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. The demonstrators, holding placards with messages such as “Say No to Discrimination in NYSC” and “Equal Rights for All,” called for an immediate reversal…
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Naira Depreciates in Parallel Market Against U.S. Dollar
The Naira yesterday depreciated to N1,665 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,660 per dollar last weekend. But the Naira appreciated to N1,534.56 per dollar in the official foreign exchange market. Data published by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, showed that the exchange rate for Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) fell to N1534.56…
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Church Rewards 20 Young Girls With Cash For Keeping Virginity
In a strategic move to promote sexual purity, a district of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Ghana has presented monetary gifts to 20 virgin girls. GhanaWeb reported that the Wenchi West District of the Mid-West Ghana Conference, Bono Region, celebrated the recipients aged 13 to 16 at a Special Thanksgiving Service over the weekend.…
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2024 UTME: JAMB Reveals Billions of Naira Remitted To FG
Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has remitted over N6 billion to the Federal government coffers as part of its operating surplus after conduct of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Board also revealed that it has so far contributed over N50 billion as an operating surplus to the national treasury over the…
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WAEC Introduces Resit For Candidates
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has introduced a new initiative, which will allow students to resit their WASSCE papers as early as January and February 2025. This marks a significant shift from the previous system, where candidates had to wait for the next private exam cycle. The Head of Public Affairs at WAEC, John…
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Osun Monarch Beaten by Angry Youth Narrates Ordeal
Punch Newspaper The Ajeniju of Halleluyah Community in Osun State, Oba Jelili Olaiya, has narrated how some hoodlums laid siege on his palace and injured four people last Friday. Oba Olaiya during the incident sustained bodily injury, while part of his palace was also vandalised by the protesters. Olaiya, in an exclusive chat with PUNCH…