Month: July 2025

104 young Nigerians have been awarded the European Union (EU)-funded postgraduate scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic sessions. This scholarship, which is under the EU’s Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Plus programme, will see these young Nigerians learn a targeted set of inter-disciplinary skills that set them up for careers as practitioners, researchers, or decision-makers in their […]

Lagos State University (LASU) has emerged as the most sought-after university in Nigeria, a new data released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed. The data which was made known on Tuesday during the ongoing 2024 JAMB Policy Meeting in Abuja, showed that LASU has officially overtaken the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), […]

Legendary Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, has unveiled a new management team, signaling a new chapter in his career. 2baba made the announcement via Instagram, stating that the newly assembled team is tasked with revitalising and reimagining his legacy within Africa’s dynamic entertainment landscape. In a joint press statement, the new team […]

A two-year-old boy, Godwin Kumfa, on Monday, drowned in the popular Meme River near his home in the Phase Two area of Lokoja local government area of Kogi State. According a source close to the family, the incident occurred at about 7:30 a.m. behind the Navy Quarters, Phase Two Extension, in Lokoja. The father of […]

Lere Olayinka, the media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has reevaluated the role of popular journalist Reuben Abati as the media adviser to the then President Godluck Jonathan, saying the former failed the latter, hence the former President was vilified out of office by his opponents. He noted […]

Oyo State commissioner for Public Works, Infrastructure and Transport, Abdulmojeed Mogbonjubola, has disclosed that Governor Seyi Makinde’s administration has transformed the state into a new economic hub in the South-West. He said that the government has transformed the state into an investors’ destination by delivering high-impact, durable, and cross-functional roads and hydraulics and implementing policies […]

National Association of Polytechnics Students (NAPS) has backed the federal government’s moves to transform Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) into a Technical and Vocational University, contrary to its notion of a conventional university. The director of Communications of the premier institution, Adekunle Adams, noted that the transmutation of Yabatech to a University of Technology has […]

Over 900 employees of AXA Mansard have taken up the mantle in the fight against domestic and sexual violence, particularly against children, as part of the company’s annual AXA Week for Good initiative. The volunteers engaged in a week-long series of social impact activities across Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt—visiting schools to educate students and […]