The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has lost accreditation for four of the courses offered in the institution, namely: Law, Dentistry, Botany and medical rehabilitation. The National Universities Commission reportedly suspended the university’s law, dentistry, medical rehabilitation, and botany programmes. Prospective students who selected any of the four courses in the just-concluded Unified Tertiary […]
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The World Bank on Friday expressed its willingness to provide technical support to Nigeria in critical areas to facilitate the country’s economic growth and development. The bank’s Vice President for African Region, Mr Hafez Ghanem said this in a statement issued by Mr James Akpandem, Special Adviser to the Minister of Budget and National Planning […]
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According information released by Mariam Uwais, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on social protection, the federal government has spent N49 billion on the national home-grown school feeding programme. The programme, which is a component of the government’s social investment, is meant for feeding primary school pupils across the country, and has been ongoing in […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will begin another round of vacation from Friday, August 3, 2018. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday. Adesina said Buhari would be away for 10 working days. He said Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo would be […]
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The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, says a full blown military government is better than the current administration. Speaking on Wednesday at a dinner to welcome those who left the All Progressives Congress (APC), Secondus alleged that the ruling party has foisted on the country “a kind of military democracy”. Senate […]
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On Wednesday, Eighteen out of the 30 members of the Sokoto state house of assembly defected from the All Progressive Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Salihu Maidaji, speaker of the assembly, announced this hour after news broke that Aminu Tambuwal, the governor, had returned to the PDP. Maidaji is among the 18 […]
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has deployed additional troops and air assets along with necessary ground support equipment and logistics facilities to Katsina and Gusau, in support of anti-armed banditry operations in the North West. AVM Olatokunbo Adesanya NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in […]
Continue ReadingSenate President Bukola Saraki and Abdulfatah Ahmed, governor of Kwara state, have defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Both men made their decision known via Twitter on Tuesday evening. “I wish to inform Nigerians that, after extensive consultations, I have decided to take my leave of the […]
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The Consul General of Nigeria in South Africa, Godwin Adama, has condemned the alleged killing of a Nigerian, Linus Chibuzor-Nwankwo from Enugu State by a fellow Nigerian, Lawrence Nwarienne from Anambra, in that country. Mr Adama, in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja, expressed shock over […]
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Not less than 16 Boko Haram terrorists have been killed by troops at the Mairari, a village in Mongno Local government area of Borno State. The Deputy Director of Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, said on Sunday that the success was recorded on Friday evening when the soldiers deployed in […]
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