Category: Breaking News
Tears as Plateau school building collapses, killing 22 students and trapping 120 more
13 Jul 2024
22 people are now dead from the school building collapse that occurred in Jos, Plateau State, on Friday morning. Following a rescue operation at the Saint Academy in the Busa Buji community of the state’s Jos North Local Government Area, Sunday Abdu, the executive secretary of the state Emergency Management Agency, had earlier confirmed the […]
Continue ReadingJAMB claims that 86 universities and others made unauthorized admissions.
13 Jul 2024
Analysis of data on the admissions conducted for the 2022/2023 admission session in Nigerian universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions of learning revealed that 88 institutions conducted admissions outside of the Central Admissions Processing System popularly referred to as CAPS. According to JAMB, admissions conducted outside CAPS are illegal, null and void. JAMB had in […]
Continue ReadingMinimum Wage: Tinubu, Labour Talks Postponed Until Next Week
12 Jul 2024
President Bola Tinubu’s talks with the Organised Labour on the minimum wage were postponed until next week to allow for more consultation with all stakeholders. At around 2:00 pm, the leaders of organized labor, led by Festus Osifo, the president of the Trade Union Congress, and Joe Ajaero, the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, […]
Continue ReadingTinubu names National Theatre after Wole Soyinka
12 Jul 2024
The National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos, has been named in honor of Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka by President Bola Tinubu. This was revealed by Tinubu in a letter he wrote to honor the legendary man on the occasion of his 90th birthday. More information later…
Continue ReadingAppeal Court upholds Daddy Freeze’s N5m adultery fine
12 Jul 2024
The fine levied against well-known Nigerian on-air personality Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze, for adultery has been upheld by the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt. A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, had on February 18, 2021, ordered Daddy Freeze to pay the sum of N5m for committing adultery with […]
Continue ReadingEx-Accountant General pleads for more time to return N1.6 billion in embezzled money.
11 Jul 2024
On Wednesday, July 10, Anamekwe Nwabuoku, a former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), pleaded with an Abuja Federal High Court to extend his deadline for completing the return of public funds that he and his co-defendant, Felix Nweke, are accused of embezzling. Nwabuoku and Nweke, a former Deputy Director in the Ministry of Defence, […]
Continue ReadingSaleh Mamman, former power minister, collapses in court over alleged N33 billion fraud.
11 Jul 2024
Saleh Mamman, a former minister of power, on Thursday, July 11. collapsed outside the courtroom at a Federal High Court, Abuja. Mamman, whose plea was scheduled for Thursday morning, reportedly passed out outside the courtroom prior to the case being called. The former minister’s counsel, Femi Ate, SAN, told Justice James Omotosho soon after he […]
Continue ReadingDoctors at Ojukwu Varsity threaten to go on strike due to unfavorable working conditions.
09 Jul 2024
Residents at Anambra State’s Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH) in Awka have threatened to go on strike due to poor working conditions and unpaid allowances. After a meeting and the 21-working-day ultimatum to the state government expired, Dr. Onyebuchi Ichoku, the president of the hospital’s Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), announced the decision. […]
Continue ReadingPresident Tinubu cancels 0.5% cybersecurity levy
09 Jul 2024
President Bola Tinubu has officially halted the imminent launch of the 0.5 percent levy on the value of all electronic transactions, responding to public criticism. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had announced the introduction of the cybersecurity levy on May 6, instructing banks, mobile money operators, and payment service providers to begin implementation within […]
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