Category: News
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JAMB reschedules mock examinations over hitches
Some candidates who sat for the 2023 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Board (JAMB) mock examinations scheduled for March 30 have expressed concern over some technical hitches experienced during the examinations. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who monitored the examinations in some Computer Based Test (CBT) centers discovered that while some centres had…
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How Yul Edochie’s First Son Slumps, Dies While Playing Football
The Cable Yul Edochie, the Nigerian actor, has lost Kambilichukwu, his eldest son with May, his first wife, TheCable Lifestyle can report. On Thursday morning, the internet was inundated with reports that Kambilichukwu is dead. He was said to have developed a seizure while playing football with his colleagues in school. Kambilichukwu was rushed to…
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Popular Nollywood Actor Loses Son
Vanguard News Emerging reports indicate that Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie has lost his first son, Kambilichukwu Edochie. It was gathered that Yul’s first son was rushed to the hospital after falling unconscious. A source who spoke to Vanguard on condition of anonymity revealed that Yul has confirmed Kambilichukwu’s death as the time this report was…
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14-year-old Student Commits Suicide Over Inability To Pay School Fee
A 14-year-old boy has reportedly committed suicide after he was sent out of school for school fees. The police official in Embu county, Kenya, Dickson Mwenda, gathered that a student at Kiriari Primary School in Kigumo Village and a candidate for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam this year, reportedly got home from…
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Queues disappear as banks increase cash payout to customers
Vanguard News Banks, yesterday, increased cash payout to customers leading to a sharp reduction in the long queues and massive crowds that characterised the cash dispensary points in the last two and half months. This followed the sustained cash evacuation from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to Deposit Money Banks since Friday last week.Vanguard…
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FG, ASUU Suit: Court Backs Ngige Move
Vanguard News The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), today, held that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, acted rightly by referring the dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government directly to the Industrial Court, pursuant to Section 17 of the Trade Dispute Act, TDA, CAP…
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Naira Scarcity: We Are Not Satisfied With Your Compliance – NLC Tells CBN
The organized labour on Tuesday said it was not satisfied with the level of compliance by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on the availability of cash in banks. The organized labour said though, there was some level of improvement in making naira notes available through banks, it was not yet satisfied because many Nigerians…
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NLC Planned Nationwide Protest Arrested – Ngige
Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, on Tuesday, assured that the threat by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to shut down activities at all the branches of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, over naira scarcity, has been arrested. The Minister also said that the issue of pay rise for workers is being…
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Just In: PDP replaces Ayu, names Acting Chair
The Nation Newspaper The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has replaced its suspended National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu with one of his deputies, Amb Umar Damagum. Damagum, who was the Deputy National Chairman (North), will occupy the seat in an acting capacity pending the determination of the substantive suit restraining Ayu from parading himself…
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Naira Scarcity: NLC Issues Directive To Officials
Ahead of today’s National Executive Council, NEC meeting, leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, have directed NLC’s officials across the country to go round and monitor cash dispensing situations at the commercial banks. Officials of state councils of NLC and industrial union affiliates are to take pictorial evidences of the actual situations at the banks,…