TETFund engages NANS to Monitor Campus Project The Tertiary Education Trust Fund has engaged the National Association of Nigerian Students to monitor its projects in tertiary institutions across the country. The body also noted that it would improve students’ accommodation in institutions through Public Private Partnership. The Executive Secretary, TETFund, Sonny Echono, made the disclosure while presenting a 30-seater bus to NANS in Abuja on Monday. Echono said TETFund was also committed, through constant dialogue with NANS, to meet students’ needs, noting that they were the centre of any policy of education.“Education is about students and how to equip them…
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Dangote Makes $575 Million in 24 hours as Adenuga Loses $2.7 Billio Nigeria’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has earned close to $600 million in one day following the surging demand for stocks of Dangote Cement on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Forbes reports that the billionaire businessman recorded the feat on Monday, July 10, 2023, following the bullish demand for Dangote Cement stocks. Dangote’s net worth now stands at 10.5 billion on the Forbes list, representing a 5.8% increase in wealth in the last 24 hours. The company’s share buyback program involves the purchase of up to 168,735,593…
As the jostle for ministerial list reaches the home stretch, there are strong indications that no fewer than five former governors will feature in the president’s list of nominees that is heading to the Senate for approval between now and next week. The unusual list, already dubbed the ‘cabinet of (political) unity’, will have nominees drawn from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and many technocrats. President Bola Tinubu’s handshake across party lines has already elicited contests and intrigues in political camps over choice of suitable representatives in some of the key states. But there may…
The President’s revenue chief said the philosophy of the government is not to tax poverty and production but prosperity and consumption. Zach Adedeji, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Revenue, believes the government would quadruple the country’s total annual revenue, which is currently less than N15 trillion, through strengthening the nation’s revenue collecting system rather than imposing new taxes. Adedeji, who made this known on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday, also said the Federal Government will harmonise all revenue-collecting agencies. “Today, we collect under N15trn as the total annual revenue but our plan between now and…
The National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Barrister Julius Abure, has charged members of the party to be prepared for a presidential rerun. He said he had been informed that President Bola Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress (APC) led government was also getting set for a rerun. Abure also urged millions of party members to be on the alert and get ready to “further humiliate” APC and its government at the polls. He said this during a virtual meeting held with Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy led by Prof. Eddie Oparaoji, who is the Lap Diaspora Chairman in…
The Federal Government has slammed an eight-count charge against former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Listed as the sole defendant in the suit filed by the FG through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the former lawmaker is being accused of falsely claiming to have lost her National Youth Service Corps certificate, among other alleged offences. According to court documents, the charge was filed on June 26, 2023, at the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division by Ochugwu Ogbeh Esq. and Ibrahim Mohammed Esq. of the Legal and Prosecution Department of the EFCC…
PDP Governors Convene Meeting to Discuss National, Party Issues The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP-GF) will meet on Tuesday in Abuja to discuss the state of the party and the nation. The forum, in a statement by its director-general, CID Maduabum, in Abuja on Monday, said the inaugural meeting would also roll out the agenda of the forum under the leadership of Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state. He said that the first meeting of the forum since Mr Mohammed and Gov. Seminalayi Fubara were elected Chairman and Vice Chairman of PDP-GF in June would hold at 1 p.m.…
Germany is presently aiming to hire 500,000 nurses from Africa in order to address shortages in its healthcare system. The European country, which is facing a serious workforce shortage, was already in talks with South African-trained nurses to fill its openings. Khaya Sodidi, the deputy secretary-general of the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA), said that Germany wants the African country to train nurses for them, especially the unemployed youth. Mr. Sodidi stressed that the European country has a shortage of about 500,000 nurses, while South Africa has about 20,000 unemployed nurses. “We can confirm there are continuous engagements…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said it is unconstitutional and immoral for lawmakers’ to determine their own emoluments. Obasanjo stated this while delivering a speech at the 60th anniversary celebration of legal icon Aare Afe Babalola’s call to the Bar held in Ado Ekiti on Monday. The former president expressed worry, saying those who should uphold the constitution are “the ones who undermine it.” The former President said this on Monday while delivering a speech at the 60th anniversary celebration of legal icon Aare Afe Babalola’s call to the Bar held in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. According to Obasanjo,…
The volume of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, that was consumed across the country in the first half of 2023 is 11.26 billion litres, the Federal Government has said. However, it was noticed that after the withdrawal of the petrol subsidy, as announced by President Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2023, PMS consumption decreased by an average of roughly 18.5 million litres per day in June. Data obtained on Sunday from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority in Abuja (NMDPRA) on Sunday, showed that between January 1 and May 28, 2023, which was the pre-deregulation period,…
It was a Black Sunday in the Badagry area of Lagos State as an 18-seater commercial bus filled with partygoers crashed, killing all passengers onboard. The driver of the bus and his motor boy also died in the tragic accident. It was gathered that the deceased passengers had chartered the bus from the Yaba area of Lagos to attend a group party in the Republic of Benin. The accident happened about 9am at Age-Mowo close to Mowo along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, said a spokesman for the state’s traffic management body, Taofiq Adebayo. “It involved a Mazda commercial bus with passengers…
At least seven individuals were killed by suspected Fulani bandits in the Farin Lamba community of Jos South Local Government Area in Plateau State on Sunday night. Meridian Spy reports that the tragedy occurred just 24 hours after the Saturday night killings of 12 individuals in Mangu Local Government Area. The attack was confirmed on Monday by Rwang Tengwong, the National Publicity Secretary of the Berom Youth Moulders Association. Tengwong revealed that the assailants arrived in a vehicle at approximately 10:30 pm and callously opened fire on seven vigilant youths stationed near the roadside to safeguard the community. Tengwong…