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Federal Capital Territory (FCT) children, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), have embarked on cleaning the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp situated in the Sharing Prosperity School, Kuchingoro, and its environs. The team leader, Ashezi Akwashiki, founder of Book Buddies, who led children between the ages of 10 and 16, including mothers, […]
Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his unwavering support for the agency’s education-focused initiatives, particularly the recent departure of 161 Niger Delta beneficiaries for postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom. Otuaro, who disclosed this in a statement by his special assistant on Media, Mr. […]
Some of the videos trending online, arising from the current attempts to negotiate with bandits by some local government areas of Katsina State, have justified the position of most Nigerians, including this newspaper, who have kicked against negotiation with the bandits. As at the last count, eleven local government areas comprising Jibia, Batsari, Safana, Ɗanmusa, […]
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has applauded the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) for its tireless efforts in advancing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Nigeria, especially forging the Creative Media Sector Skills Council. The Minister made the remarks at his office in Abuja on Tuesday during a […]
A former presidential candidate, Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, has condemned an alleged plan by a Nigerian entertainer, Mandy Kiss, to have sex with 100 men within 24 hours in pursuit of a Guinness World Record. Adesanya-Davies, in a statement yesterday, noted that, “Nigerian content creator, Ayomiposi Oluwadahunsi, popularly known as Mandy Kiss, has announced plans to […]
The Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Professor Idris Bugaje, has emphasised that Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) represents Nigeria’s most viable pathway out of poverty. Bugaje made this known while speaking during the opening of a two-day capacity-building programme for TVET stakeholders in Kano under the Better Education […]
Renowned political campaigner, respected human rights lawyer and public intellectual, Professor P.L.O. Lumumba from Kenya and Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the former President of the ECOWAS Commission and the African Union’s High Representative for Silencing the Guns, have both praised “Beneath the Surface: Essays on Nigeria’s Chequered Journey”, a collection of essays authored by Dr Dakuku […]
The United Igbo Elders Council (UNIEC) Worldwide has raised concern over the health of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to order his immediate and unconditional release. In a statement signed by its Director-General, Justice Alpha Ikpeama, UNIEC said Kanu’s continued detention […]
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation Afenifere has called on the Federal Government, led by President Bola Tinubu, to work harder on its economic reform policies to ensure the country’s economy bounces back and strengthens. Rising from its caucus meeting held at the Akure home of the Leader, Chief Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti, on Tuesday, Afenifere decried the […]
The trial of the suspended Kogi Central Senator Natasha Apoti-Uduaghan at the High Court of Justice of the Federal Capital Territory for allegedly defaming the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, again suffered an adjournment. The senator’s trial could not go on due to objections to the competence of the charge. Natasha predicated her objections […]