Category: News
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Tinubu: How I was Granted Asylum in US
President-elect Bola Tinubu went down memory lane in recalling how he was granted political asylum in the United States during the regime of General Sani Abacha in 1995. The former head of state had clamped down on human rights activists, lawyers, doctors, journalists and some groups. The President-elect was at the time a member of…
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Malpractice: Private School Owners Write WAEC
Nigerian Tribune Private school owners in the country have taken a swipe at the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for consistently accusing them of aiding examination malpractice and other sharp practices, particularly in its school-based May June West African Senior School Certificate Examination(WASSCE). They said WAEC is not being fair but discriminating in its claim…
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Double Charges? Telecoms Mull Charging Bank Customers For USSD
Punch Newspaper Telecommunication operators may soon begin to charge bank customers’ airtime or data for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data transactions, The PUNCH has learnt. This was due to a proposal from a Central Bank of Nigeria-led stakeholders’ forum organized to resolve the lingering billing and debt crisis between telecommunication companies and Deposit Money Banks in…
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U.S. States Secretary, Blinken Speaks With President-elect, Tinubu
The Nation Newspaper United States Secretary of State, Antony J Blinken, has told President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu that the Joe Biden administration is committed to strengthening ties with Nigeria. Blinken, according to a statement by Matthew Miller called Tinubu on Tuesday. “Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke this morning with Nigerian President-elect Bola Ahmed…
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Policemen Storm Seun Kuti’s House (Video)
An eyewitness on Tuesday who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent how officers of the Lagos State Police Command stormed the Akin Osiyemi residence of Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, off Allen Avenue, Ikeja, for a search, while also seizing his wife’s mobile phone. The eyewitness said, “The police officers invaded Seun’s home here on my street,…
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Guinness World Records Gives Fresh Update On Nigerian Chef, Hilda Baci
Guinness World Records has released an official statement on Nigerian chef Hilda Bassey Effiong popularly known as Hilda Baci. Baci, the Akwa Ibom native surpassed the record for the longest cooking time by an individual, held by an Indian chef, Lata Tondon, who had completed the task in 87 hours, 45 minutes, and 00 secs…
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Why Embattled Singer, Seun Kuti Was Handcuffed – Police
Vanguard News Son of music legend, late Fela Kuti, Seun, who turned himself in at the Lagos State Police Headquarters, Ikeja, yesterday, has been detained at the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, SCIID, Yaba, Lagos, former Panti. Seun arrived the Police State Command about 8a.m. He was taken into custody and hand-cuffed. He spent…
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UNIABUJA, UNILORIN, Other Federal Varsities Accused of Mismanaging N4.7 Billion
The Senate has ordered some federal universities to refund N4.7bn which they were said to have been mismanaged. This followed the report of the Senate Public Accounts Committee which probed the universities’ financial activities using audit reports. The institutions are the University of Abuja; the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta; the University of…
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Kwara Poly: Mass Communication Gets Accreditation For HND Program
The Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Kwara State, has said its Higher National Degree Programme in Mass Communication has been fully accredited. A statement by the institution said its rector, Dr Abdul Muhammed said the institution now has six academic institutes and four centres. He explained that the academic institutes are the Institutes of Applied Sciences,…
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FG Approves Establishment of 36 New Private Varsities, as Training of N-Power Beneficiaries Gets Boost
The Extraordinary Executive Council of the Federation (FEC), presided over by Yemi Osinbajo, has approved the establishment of 36 new private universities across the country following a memo presented by the Ministry of Education. Minister of Education Adamu Adamu, announced this on Monday in Abuja while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of a…