Gaza war: Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese border village of Chihine on July 28, 2024. Fallout from the Gaza war is regularly felt on the Israel-Lebanon frontier, where deadly cross-border exchanges have escalated between Israeli troops and mainly Hezbollah fighters. (Photo by Kawnat Haju/ AFP) A nationwide strike aimed at […]
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The Federal Government is set to arraign some leaders and organisers of the #EndBadGovernance protests held from August 1 to 10, 2024 today. The protesters are being tried for alleged treason, inciting mutiny and intent to destabilise Nigeria. The ten persons to be arraigned before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court are Michael […]
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Ex-Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George, has said that the party would field a southerner as its candidate in the 2027 Presidential Election. He said in a statement that a southerner must occupy the office of the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal […]
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By Samuel Sedara In 2011 when I completed my master’s degree program, I never wanted to further for a Doctorate because I wanted to travel out of Nigeria. Then I had the opportunity of getting a Visa but all efforts went into the drain. The hustling started at least to get a job in the […]
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A visually impaired widow and over 600 students of the ESM University, Benin Republic, and their parents have appealed to President Bola Tinubu to reverse the ban on the institution’s certificate in Nigeria. The distraught students who are on the scholarship of a faith-based organisation, ‘Omega Power Ministries’ and their parents cried to the General […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka branch, has expressed strong displeasure with the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) for disconnecting the institution from power supply for four days. While power has been restored as of Saturday, discussions between EKEDC and the university management regarding payment modalities and measures to […]
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Why we celebrated Bichi’s exit – DSS officers The reasons the immediate past Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, and the DG of the National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Abubakar, resigned from their positions have been revealed. Sources within the Presidency told Saturday Punch that President Bola Tinubu and the National Security Adviser, […]
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A file photo of candidates taking an examination The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has urged the Federal Government to suspend the recent policy by the Federal Ministry of Education to peg the minimum age requirement for enrollment for senior secondary school examination at 18 years. The association described the policy as limiting, […]
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Arrested and detained EndBadGovernance protesters have applied to a federal high court in Abuja seeking to vacate an order allowing the police to detain them for 60 days. Nigerians staged a nationwide protest against economic hardship from August 1–10. The protesters demanded a reduction in the cost of governance, a return to the petrol subsidy […]
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The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, has sacked the Executive management of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agriculture Lending (NIRSAL). A source at the organisation confirmed that the affected directors got their letters on Friday. The pioneer Managing Director, Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed, had earlier been sent away […]
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