Category: News
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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…
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Just In: Obasanjo Endorses Peter Obi
Channels TV Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi as his preferred contestant for the 2023 general elections. In his 2023 New Year message personally signed by the ex-President and made available to Channels Television by his spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo described Obi as his mentee and…
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Pastor Adeboye Releases Prophecies For 2023
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has released his prophecies for the year 2023. Pastor Adeboye released the prophecies during the church’s crossover service, which took place on the cross over night at the RCCG headquarters on Saturday. According to Pastor Adeboye, the world will relatively be…
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APC Presidential Candidate in Makkah For Lesser Hajj (Video)
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, is in Makkah for lesser Hajj, Umrah, ahead of the forthcoming presidential election in February. It was reported on Saturday that Tinubu was in Saudi Arabia, after denying meeting with G-5 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party in London. His media aide, Tunde Rahman, said…