Author: Vreporters
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Students To Get Free WAEC, NECO, JAMB Forms – Presidential Candidate Says
Presidential candidate of New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Senotor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has promised to pay WAEC, NECO and JAMB fee of students if elected president in forthcoming general elections. In an interview with BBC Hausa, he said if elected, JAMB result will be valid four years instead of one. He said, “We listened to…
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Again, Peter Obi Leads Tinubu, Atiku Kwankwaso In Fresh Survey
A recently conducted survey carried out by Market Trends International (MTI) on all presidential candidates in the 2023 election has placed Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress (APC), and Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), among others.…
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Notorious Boko Haram Warlord, Abou Hurairah, Others Killed in Military Airstrikes
PR Nigeria After evading several onslaughts of the Nigerian military, a notorious Boko Haram warlord, Abou Hurairah, has met his waterloo. PRNigeria gathered that Abou Hurairah, was eliminated alongside some other Boko Haram fighters during aggressive bombardments by the Air Task Force of Operation Hadin Kai, using two alpha jets of the Nigerian Air Force,…
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Sex Romps: Principal Reacts To College Students Caught in Lagos Hotel With Female Classmates
Punch Newspaper The management of the Federal Government College, Ijaniki, Lagos State, has denied allegations of covering up some students caught absconding from school to lodge female classmates in a hotel for sex romps. The Principal, Mrs Tofunmi Akamo, who spoke to our correspondent on Wednesday, said the students, numbering six, were picked up from…
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JUST IN: Gunmen attack travellers in Kogi, shoot journalist
Punch Newspaper A communications specialist and senior crime reporter with Daily Trust Newspaper, Idowu Isamotu and five others have been attacked by gunmen along the Lokoja-Obajana road in Kogi State, The PUNCH reports. Our correspondent exclusively gathered that the attack happened at about 5 pm on Wednesday. In an SOS message sent to our correspondent,…
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Just In: COVID-19 Variant Not in Nigeria – NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Prevention has said that the COVID-19 Omicron sub-lineages partly responsible for the current increase in COVID-19 cases in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom have not yet been detected in the country. The NCDC disclosed this on Wednesday in an update on COVID-19 genomic surveillance signed by…
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Lagos College Students Lodge Female Classmates in Hotel For Sex Romps
Punch Newspaper Some students of the Federal Government College, Ijaniki, Lagos State, have been caught after absconding from school to lodge female classmates in hotels for sex romps. PUNCH Metro gathered that the students, who were all boarders, had on different occasions jumped the school’s fence with their female counterparts and stayed out of school…
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Naira in steep depreciation despite CBN policies
The Nation Newspaper The naira suffered steep depreciation in 2022 with the national currency losing between at least 11 per cent and 23 per cent. Analysis of the exchange rates’ movements showed that the naira lost 11 per cent of its value at the official market and was worse at the parallel market, where it…
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Students Loan Bill Proposes Jail Term For Defaulters
Punch Newspaper The Students Loan Bill recently passed by the National Assembly recommended two years imprisonment or N500, 000 or both for students who default in repayment or anyone found aiding defaulters, The PUNCH reports. As part of efforts geared towards addressing funding challenges in the country’s tertiary institutions of learning, the National Assembly recently…
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ASUU Protests as FG Withholds Union Dues
Punch Newspaper The check-off dues deducted by the Federal Government from the November 2022 salaries of university lecturers were not remitted into the account of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, The PUNCH has learnt. Check-off due is the money deducted from an employee’s pay for membership in a union or an organisation that represents…