Category: News
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Police Arrest 200-level UNIPORT Student Who Stabbed 500-level AAUA Student To Death
A 200-level student of the University of Port Harcourt, Victor Ochonogor, has been arrested by operatives of Edo State Police Command for allegedly killing his girlfriend, who was a 500-level student of Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma. Parading Ochonogor alongside other suspects in Benin, the state Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Dankwara, said the suspect was arrested…
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NBTE Makes Clarification on Online Top-up Programme For HND Graduates
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has clarified that the new online top-up programme for Higher National Diploma (HND) holders to acquire a bachelor’s degree for one year, with foreign accredited universities, is meant for the HND holders who want to pursue an academic career. According to NAN, Fatima Abubakar, the NBTE head of…
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Dress Codes: OAU Speaks On Viral Circular
Following mixed reactions that trailed a now viral circular containing the modes of dressing which students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, were ‘enjoined’ to religiously adhere to, the authorities of the institution have cleared air on the circular describing it as mischievous adding that, the trending circular did not emanate from the authorities.a…
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FEC Meeting: Tinubu Gives Ministers Targets To Revive Economy
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to achieve the targets of reviving the economy to make life more bearable for the people. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, presented the “Roadmap for the economy” which was considered at the maiden federal cabinet meeting presided…
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President Tinubu Presides Over Inaugural FEC Meeting (Photos)
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is chairing the inaugural meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which commenced some minutes after noon on Monday, is attended by Vice President Kashim Shettima, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sen. George Akume, and the Head of…
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EXCLUSIVE: Untold Story of Minister Hannatu Musawa’s NYSC Saga
Premium Times More facts have emerged about the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) status of the Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa. Ms Musawa has for weeks been in the eye of the storm for failing, during her confirmation hearing at the Nigerian senate, to provide evidence that she participated in the…
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Minister Accused of Breaking NYSC Law Over Ministerial Appointment Breaks Silence
Minister of Art, Culture & Creative Hannatu Musawa has broken her silence on the controversy of retaining office while serving as a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Although the issue of her NYSC status has been in the news for years, it regained prominence after the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria…
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Pentecostal Pastor Jump Down From 2-storey Building, Kills Self, After Jilted by Lover
A man identified as a pastor of a pentecostal church, Pastor Prosper Obum Igboke has committed suicide in Nnewi, Anambra State. Sources said the man jumped down from a two storey-building after he was jilted by his lover. A relative of the deceased, who spoke to DAILY POST under anonymity, said the man had trained…
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Education Under Buhari Catastrophic – ASUU President, Gives Qualities Education Minister Should Possess
Vanguard News Professor Emmanuel Osodeke is the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In this interview, Osodeke says Nigeria’s education sector was catastrophic under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, warning on the new Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman: “Such a minister should be somebody who knows what a university…
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U.S President Invites President Tinubu For ‘Exclusive’ Discussion
President of the United States of America, Joe Biden has extended an exclusive invitation to Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to discuss the political standoff in Niger Republic on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in September. The invitation comes after the Nigerien military ousted President Mohamed Bazoum in a…