Category: News
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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…
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Former Imo Governor Breaks Silence After Gunmen Attack
Former Imo State Governor, Ikedi Ohakim, has broken his silence on his attack by gunmen on Monday and the killing of four policemen in his convoy. The former governor escaped death by the hair’s breadth when gunmen rained bullets on his vehicle at Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State. Narrating his ordeal after…
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General Elections: Varsity, Polytechnic Lecturers Advise Nigerians
Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union Universities and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics have advised Nigerians to vote for leaders who will invest in education. The National Presidents of ASUU and ASUP, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke and Dr Anderson Ezeibe, respectively, told our correspondent in an interview that the only way strike could be avoided…
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Amotekun: Sunday Igboho Issues 24-hours Ultimatum to Seyi Makinde
The Nation Newspaper The embattled Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho), has issued a 24-hour ultimatum to Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde to order Amotekun to produce a young man, who disappeared since last week in Ibadan or face a large-scale protest. Igboho issued the ultimatum on his Instagram handle @sunday_igboho1 yesterday.…
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Moment Ronaldo Arrives Saudi’s Capital Ahead of Official Unveiling (Video)
Globally revered Footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo and his wife Georgina Rodriguez on Monday evening arrived Riyadh, the capital of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia few days after the official announcement of joining Al-Nassr club . The Portuguese superstar will be officially unveiled tomorrow, Tuesday 3rd of January, 2023 as the latest signee of Al-Nassr. Some strategic…
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Ex-president Jonathan, Oyedepo, 12 Other Nigerians Make List of ‘100 Most Reputable Africans’ (Full List)
Former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan; Founder and General Overseer at Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo and Founder and Chairman of the Coscharis Group, Cosmas Maduka are some of the Nigerians who have been named among the 2023 ‘100 Most Reputable Africans’. Other Nigerians on the list include General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of…