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The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), have announced the immediate closure of the institution following the mass protest that greeted the increment of late school fees payment. Recall that hundreds of students of the University had taken to the streets to protest what they called incessant extra charges on late payment of […]
Edo State government has announced the commencement of enforcement of no-vaccination, no-entry into government-owned facilities across the state, effective from Wednesday, September 15. The Permanent Secretary of the State Ministry of Health, Dr. Osamwonyi Irowa, who announced this on Tuesday, said access to all government facilities will be consequent on presentation of proof of […]
President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking the approval of the National Assembly to borrow another $4 billion ($4,054,476,863) and €710 million loan from bilateral and multilateral organisations to fund the deficit in the 2021 budget. The president, in a letter to the Senate, said the loan request is an addendum to the 2018-2020 borrowing plan. […]
Workers at the government-owned refineries were paid a total of N69.07bn last year, even as the plants generated zero revenue as they did not process a single barrel of crude oil. The PUNCH reported that the refineries suffered a combined loss of N108.29bn in 2020, compared to N162.22bn in the previous year, according to […]
The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed the bill that prohibits open cattle grazing in the state. The House also passed the State’s Value Added Tax (VAT) bill with Speaker Mudashiru Obasa directing the Acting Clerk of the House, Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for assent. The […]
The government of Kaduna State has released a new resumption schedule for its schools after months of disruption in the school calendar due to violent attacks by bandits in the state. The state’s commissioner for education, Shehu Makarfi, disclosed this on Thursday while taking part in a virtual workshop organised by the Education Writers’ […]
A member of staff of Nigerian Television Authority, (NTA), Chukwu Odiahu, has been reportedly stoned to death by some yet-to-be identified persons in Okene, Kogi State. DAILY POST reported that late Odiahu who works at the engineering department of the NTA booster station in Okene, met his death in the hands of his assailants […]
The Itsekiri Liberation Group, ILG, has threatened to challenge the Federal Government in the law court, if it goes ahead to constitute a substantive Board for Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, without appointing an Itsekiri indigene as Chairman or MD, insisting, “Any attempt to constitute a substantive Board of the NDDC with any other […]
President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has arrived in Imo State. Buhari landed at the Sam Mbakwe Airport in Owerri, the state capital where he was received by dignitaries. The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, in a post on Facebook, stated that the President is in the state to commission some projects. He wrote, “It […]
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has urged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to stop giving “preferential scores” to students in Northern Nigeria who sit the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. He stated this on Monday as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ breakfast programme. According to the governor, students in the North […]
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