About 186 students would be awarded first-class at the 49th convocation ceremony of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) billed to hold on Friday, June 11 and Saturday, June 12. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Charles Igwe, at a pre-convocation briefing, told reporters that 11, 010 students would participate in the ceremony. According to him, 7,513 students […]
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No fewer than 18 persons have been killed in an auto crash that occurred on Wednesday along Birninkudu-Kano road in Birninkudu Local Government Area of Jigawa. ASP Lawan Shisu, the acting Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state Police Command, has confirmed. Shisu told newsmen that the incident occurred at about 6:30 a.m., close […]
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Bayelsa State Livestock Management Committee (BSLMC) has impounded 34 cows in Yenagoa, the state capital, over alleged violation of the state’s anti-open grazing law. The cows were impounded yesterday around the Bayelsa Palm area of the state capital. The Livestock Breeding, Rearing and Marketing Bill was passed into law about three months ago. The Chairman […]
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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has raked in N315 million from the sale of nomination and expression of interest forms to aspirants jostling for the party’s governorship ticket for the November 6 Anambra State Governorship elections. At the close of sales and submission of nomination and expression of interest forms yesterday, it was gathered […]
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By Niyi Akinnaso “When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions” -Claudius, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Perhaps no statement could have captured the current Nigerian situation better than the above Shakespearean dictum. Virtually everything that could go wrong has gone wrong with Nigeria, earning the country negative assessments on all international indices. Only […]
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Abaribe kicks The Senate on Wednesday referred the name of the Special Assistant on Social Media to the President, Lauretta Onochie, to the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for screening as a National Commissioner of INEC representing Delta State. This is coming about eight months after President Muhammdu Buhari forwarded Onochie’s […]
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says Nigerians must sacrifice to end banditry Wife of Kaduna State Governor, Hajia Asia El-Rufai has said that Nigerians must sacrifice to end banditry and kidnapping, saying that no ransom should be paid to her abductors if she is kidnapped. The Governor’s wife made the remarks in Kaduna on Wednesday while addressing participants of a […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday said Nigerians would fare better staying together than break up. He stated this in Abeokuta at his investiture as a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyor (NIS) organised by the Ogun chapter of the Body of Fellows of the NIS. The elder statesman called on agitators for the […]
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Microblogging and social network giant, Twitter, has reached out to the Federal Government for negotiations over the recent suspension of its activities, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed has disclosed. Speaking with State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC), Mohammed said Twitter had reached out to the government seeking high-level discussion […]
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Customers register their MTN mobile phone sim cards at a roadside kiosk in Lagos, Nigeria. Photographer: George Osodi/Bloomberg Nigeria’s teledensity falls by 6.03 per cent Operators lose 12.5m Internet users as broadband penetration drops to 40.6% At least 15.8 million subscribers have lost access to telecommunications services in the country, as a result of government […]
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