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Stakeholders in the education sector, including the West Africa Office of the Association of African Universities (AAU), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Universities Commission (NUC) have launched a Framework of Action for Accelerating Academic Excellence (FAAAE) in the Nigerian higher education system. This was unveiled at …

Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai The lawmaker representing Kogi West, Senator Sunday Karimi, during the ministerial screening on Tuesday moved against former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai. Karimi, after el-Rufai’s presentations, stood up and told the chamber that he had a petition written against the former governor over …

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio The Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, on Wednesday prevented the president’s media aide, Dele Alake from reciting the second stanza of the National Anthem. Alake was asked by the Minority leader, Senator Simon Mwadkwom, to recite the second stanza of the National anthem after taking the nominee …

•Withdrawals rise by 240.1% There are indications that economic hardship is forcing employees to eat deep into their pension savings held in Retirement Savings Account, RSAs. Vanguard findings show that RSA account holders under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, withdrew N3.02 billion from their Additional Voluntary Contribution, ADV, in the …

•As Igbo youths urge Senate to act on Ekpa Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, rued the impact of sit-at-home in the South East, saying that over 250 people have been killed through the enforcement of the order since August 2021. President General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, …

By Anayo Okoli, Innocent Anaba, Victor Ahiuma-Young, Henry Ojelu, Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Gift Chapi-Odekinah President Bola Tinubu yesterday met with the leadership of the two labour centres, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, with a firm commitment to accede to …

Speaker of Edo House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku Members of the Edo House of Assembly on Wednesday drilled the Federal Controller of Works in the state, Mr Babatunde Hassan, over the deplorable state of all federal roads in the state. The lawmakers expressed displeasure over the abandonment of construction works …

We ‘ll clear Bayelsa, Imo, Kogi guber poll- PDP The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is confident of winning the Nov. 11 governorship election in Bayelsa, Imo and Bayelsa. Umar Damagum, acting National Chairman, PDP, stated this in Abuja at the inauguration of the party’s National Campaign Council for the election …

President Bola Tinubu The People’s Democratic Party has rubbished the speech delivered to the nation by President Bola Tinubu on Monday evening. According to PDP, the speech by President Tinubu dashed the hope of Nigerians and “especially his now disillusioned supporters.” The opposition party opined that Tinubu’s speech was a …

The self-acclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra, Simon Ekpa, has rejected the letter written to him by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. Ekpa in whose directive South East sits at home every Monday, described the letter read publicly by Kanu’s lawyer Aloy Ejimakor as fake, …