The Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, has accepted 16 years as the admission age into tertiary institutions for the 2024/2025 academic session. Mamman who had earlier pegged the admission age of undergraduates to 18, however made a u-turn after protests from stakeholders at the 2024 policy meeting organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation […]
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says the National Assembly is becoming an “enabler of executive recklessness”. In a post on X on Thursday, he condemned the removal of Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno south, as the chief whip of the senate. On Wednesday, Tahir Monguno, senator representing Borno North, took Ndume’s position following a request by […]
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Caroline Hutchings, the Scottish-Nigerian actress, has spoken up on her life after divorce from her ex-husband, Musa Danjuma. The actress in a lengthy post on her Instagram page on Wednesday, stated that she lost her identity and dreams after divorce. Recounting her experience, she explained how the split prompted her to start life from scratch […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved 140 as the cut-off mark for 2024 admission into the nation’s universities and 100 for polytechnics and colleges of education respectively. The cut-off mark for 2024 admission into tertiary institutions was arrived at on Thursday during the 2024 annual policy meeting on admissions, which was held […]
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Naira falls to N1,640/USD The Central Bank of Nigeria has resumed foreign exchange sales to Bureau de Change operators as foreign exchange scarcity deepens. The sales are coming a few months after the bank stopped selling forex to BDCs and subsequently withdrew all their licenses. But in a fresh twist, the CBN has commenced FX […]
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President Bola Tinubu has started the distribution of the first batch of cheques to beneficiaries of the student loan scheme, launching the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND. Yesterday, the President presented cheques to students from the six geopolitical zones. Mr. Akintunde Sawyer, the Executive Secretary of NELFUND, announced that N32 billion was currently available for […]
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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), and sister unions have bowed to pressure and accepted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s N70,000 Minimum wage offer. Their acceptance follows the approval of a new national minimum wage of N70,000 for Nigerian workers on Thursday. The labour unions had rejected the government’s previous offer of N62,000 […]
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The Major Energies Marketers Association of Nigeria (MEMAN) has disclosed that the landing cost of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, was ₦1,117/litre as of Tuesday, July 16, 2024. It disclosed this during a webinar with journalists on Wednesday. The association revealed that the landing cost of diesel was ₦1,157/litre, while that of aviation […]
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A former National Vice Chairman North-west of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman has tackled President Bola Tinubu over the decision to remove Senator Ali Ndume as the Chief Whip of the Senate. According to Lukman, removing Ndume indicates President Bola Tinubu has resolved to do one term in office. Recall that on Wednesday, […]
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The House Committee on Reformatory Institutions’ chairman, Hon. Chinedu Ogah has disclosed that the National Assembly may soon drag the 36 state governors through the Supreme Court to compel them to take responsibility for correctional facilities in their domains. Speaking at an event to celebrate Nelson Mandela International Day, organized by the United Nations Office […]
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