Effort of the Governor Dapo Abiodun-led administration to improve and revamp the state healthcare service has received a boost as a Foundation, Abdul Samad Africa Initiative, donated N2.5b towards the construction of Mother and Child Unit at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu. Presenting a cheque on behalf of the Foundation at the Governor’s […]
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Wife of late Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu, Bianca Ojukwu has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to release leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu from detention to heal past wounds. Speaking yesterday at the 10th edition of Ojukwu Memorial Day in Owerri, the Imo State capital, Mrs. Ojukwu decried the continued detention of IPOB […]
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All Progressives Congress, APC National Leader and former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, will be contesting the forthcoming 2023 presidential election. This was disclosed in an interview on Friday by a founding member of the Arewa Consultative Forum and elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, who also promised to support the presidential bid. The former […]
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Twenty thousand graduates will commence paid fellowship in January 2022 through the United Nations Development Programme and Federal Government partnership, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has said. He stated this on Friday at the 2021 Presidential Policy Dialogue of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry. According to him, the partnership is under the Nigeria […]
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PDP National Chairman, Prof Iyorchia Ayu, APC National Committee Chairman, Governor Mala Buni By Segun Ayobolu Following on the reasonably successful conduct of its last National Convention in Abuja at which the new Professor Iyorchia Ayu-led National Executive Committee of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) emerged, the party, last week, held a two-day ‘PDP […]
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Unless something is done urgently, the feud between Senator Danjuma Goje and Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya in Gombe State may spell trouble for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Last Wednesday, no fewer than 80 per cent of ward executives of the party in Yamaltu/Deba Local Government Area of the State resigned […]
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Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun Students in Ogun State culpable of criminal and unlawful acts will be sent to juvenile homes to undergo character reformation. Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, stated this in Abeokuta when he visited the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Lanre Bankole. He tendered apology on […]
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Ten persons were killed and over 690 Irigwe indigenes displaced following Friday’s bloody attack by suspected herdsmen on Ta’agbe Village of Miango District in Bassa Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State. The Miango Youth Development Association (MYDA), stated this on Saturday via a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Nuhu B Nga. The […]
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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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