Aishatu Musa Dalil, 18, has emerged the overall winner of the BBC Hausa Short Story Writing Competition tagged: “Hikayata”. She won the context with the story ” Hakkina” (My Right) and was announced the overall winner on Friday night in Abuja. She was awarded a cash prize of 2000 dollars and a plague. The second […]
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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has allocated N12 billion for the establishment of 12 additional Centres of Excellence (COEs) in tertiary institutions. Each of the 12 centres will get N1 billion for take-off with a five-year funding period. Under its 2020 intervention, the agency said it created 12 TETFund Centres of Excellence in universities. […]
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Rev. Samuel Ayadi, Coordinator, Niger Delta Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his concern and response to the ongoing oil leak at Nembe in Bayelsa. He said that the President’s prompt dispatch of Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum to the spill site had sent a signal of hope […]
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Police Inspector General Aliyu Baba Ten passengers of a commercial vehicle were Saturday kidnapped along the Uturu-Akara Road in Isuikwuato Local Government Area (LGA) of Abia State. It was gathered that the passengers boarded the vehicle at a motor park opposite the Abia State University Uturu. They were on their way to Akara in Isuikwuato […]
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The Ugandan government may lose Entebbe International Airport over a 2015 Chinese loan borrowed by the President Yoweri Museveni-led administration. In November 2015, the Uganda government signed an agreement with Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) to borrow $207 million at two per cent upon disbursement. The loan had a maturity period of 20 years […]
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The Department of State Services has put the Nigeria Customs Service on red alert over planned attacks by insurgents on Ogun border communities and other border communities across the country. The secret police said it has intelligence that the marauders intend to hatch their sinister plot on military bases in border towns. In a letter […]
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Irele Moyinoluwa Deborah from the Economics Department of the Redeemer University (RUN), Ede, Osun State stole the show at the 13th convocation ceremony of the institution last week with her emergence as the best graduating student. Surprisingly she had had to abandon her course as a student of Agric-Economics after four years stint at Ladoke […]
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The World Health Organisation has named the latest COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa, the Greek name ‘Omicron’, and labelled it a variant of concern due to its large number of mutations and possible faster rate of infection. WHO, in a statement on Friday, said that preliminary evidence also suggests an increased risk of reinfection […]
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Rowland Monokpo (left) and his wife with pictures of their daughters A 64-year-old retired civil servant in Rivers State, Rowland Monokpo, tells Dennis Naku he’s been suffering psychological and physical trauma since his two daughters, Maryanne and Scholastica, were kidnapped on the farm 12 years ago. Please briefly tell us about yourself? My name is […]
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In recent times, there has been concern over reports of a lady who was said to have died from a snake bite when she was using the toilet in her apartment leading to many asking how that could be possible. Indeed, snakes can get into toilet bowls through the connecting pipes and pits outside the […]
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