By Adegbenro Adebanjo His studentship was withdrawn by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, OAU, after he failed to meet up to the minimum standard . And so after five years sojourn all came to nothing in 2014. Six years after, he has graduated with a First Class from the Federal University of Technology Akure, […]
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By Adegbenro Adebanjo In 2012 she was a final year student of Biology at the Federal University of Technology Akure FUTA. However in the same year she was involved in a debilitating road accident that changed the course of her life and made her wheelchair bound. In 2019, seven years after the accident, she applied […]
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Emeritus Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has called on the Federal Government to tackle the menace of abandoned street children in order to end the country’s security problems. He made the call in Abuja yesterday while speaking at the premiere of ‘’The Oratory’’, a movie raising awareness on the plight of street children in […]
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The Coalition of Ethnic Nationality Youth Leaders of Nigeria, CENYLON, has commended the Federal Government for finally declaring the bandits who have been unleashing havoc on several parts of the country as terrorists. It praised the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for taking the bold move which it believed is a big step in the ongoing […]
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There are still people in Nigeria who live mainly by the written word. That is the lot of Nyaknno Osso, who was our pioneer librarian at the old Newswatch. After 50 years as a librarian, Osso is not about to retire. He is now at the centre of an information revolution, trying to gather biographical […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerian universities and scientists to intensify research efforts to develop vaccines that can tackle the COVID-19 and its variants, which are afflicting the world. His call is coming on the heels of the new more contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19, which has triggered global alert as more cases were recorded […]
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More countries record cases, reintroduce travel bans World Bank okays $5.8b vaccine cash for Nigeria, others The new COVID-19 variant known as Omicron has triggered global alerts as more cases have been recorded in some European and Asian countries. But the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the latest strain has not been discovered […]
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Social media platform Twitter has agreed to all the conditions laid out by the Federal Government regarding its operations in Nigeria, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus, said yesterday. The minister, who is also a member of a committee, set up to review the operations of the platform since its ban on June […]
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The police have arrested a top immigration officer, Abdullahi Usman, over his alleged role in the raid on the house of Justice Mary Odili. It was learnt that he would be charged this week along with a banker, lawyer, a fake police officer, a journalist and seven others. Two soldiers who allegedly took part in […]
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By Alade Rotimi-John Ordinarily, it is inexplicable how-why the Buhari government has been reluctant, shy or has found it difficult to categorise or declare as terrorists the marauding bands of utterly despicable roughnecks terrifying the entire northern Nigeria landscape. The government somehow curiously understands the necessary nexus between the origin, philosophy and operational methods of […]
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