Category: News
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How Nigerian Varsities, Polytechnics Battle Indecent Dressing on Campuses
Daily Trust In their bid to curtail the rising trend of indecent dressing among students on campuses, tertiary institutions have come up with various measures, Daily Trust Saturday reports. Students of tertiary institutions, in their quest to align with the trending fads and fashion styles, often go to classes in skimpy and tattered dresses considered…
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President Tinubu Suspends N-Power, School Feeding, Other NSIP Programmes
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended all administered Social Investment Programmes by the National Social Investment Programme Agency. Announcing the suspension in a statement on Friday, the Director Information, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Segun Imohiosen, said the President’s decision was in view of the “ongoing investigation of alleged malfeasance in the management…
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President Tinubu Approves N683 Billion For Varsities, Polytechnics, Colleges
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the sum of N683,429,268 billion as the 2024 Intervention Funds for public tertiary education institutions in the country. This year’s intervention witnessed a boost as compared to last year where over N320 billion was disbursed. This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny…
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Kano: Supreme Court Sets Aside Appeal Court Judgement
Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which nullified the election of Governor Kabir Yusuf of Kano state. A five-member panel of justices on Friday, January 12, unanimously held that the lower court misunderstood the import of the purported deduction of 165,616 ballot papers in favour of Governor…
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Anxiety in Seven States as S’Court Delivers Judgment
The Nation Newspaper There is heightened security amid anxiety in some of the states where the Supreme Court judgment is expected today in the dispute over the March 18, 2023 governorship elections. The court yesterday announced that the appeals on Plateau, Kano, Zamfara, Lagos, Cross Rivers, Bauchi and Ebonyi will be decided today. The situation…
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FULL LIST: 45 Visa-free Countries Nigerian Passport Can Travel To in 2024
Punch Newspaper The Henley Passport Index has listed the most powerful passports in the world on Thursday. HPI is a global passport-ranking website with an original, authoritative ranking of all the world’s passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa. Their index is often based on exclusive data…
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Nigerian Students Threaten Nationwide Protest
The leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened to embark on nationwide protests over tuition fee increment across the public higher educational institutions in the country, calling on the Federal Government to immediately intervene in the looming crisis surrounding the fee hike. “We, the leadership of NANS, stand united and resolute in…
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N585 million Scandal: Details of APC Governors’ Meeting Emerge
Governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have weighed in on the recent suspension of handlers of the nation’s social investment programmes, including the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, urging Nigerians to be patient as President Bola Tinubu would only take further actions based on the outcome of ongoing…
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Just In: Bandits Kidnap Varsity Lecturer in Fresh Attack
Punch Newspaper Bandits have again kidnapped a director, Centre for Research of the Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State, Bello Janbako. Janbako, who is also a senior lecturer at the university’s Department of Islamic Studies, was kidnapped in his residence in Damba Gusau, the state capital on Wednesday. A resident of the area, Nasamu Garba…
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EFCC quizzes 10 officials of Humanitarian Ministry
The Nation Newspaper Ten top officials of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation were quizzed yesterday as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) widened its probe of alleged financial mismanagement to civil servants. Suspended Minister Betta Edu is being investigated for allegedly directing the payment of N585 million meant for sharing with…