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Edo State Government has assured tertiary institutions in the state of sustained support to improve the standard of education and ensure the overall development of the state. The Edo State Head of Service, Anthony Okungbowa Esq. gave the assurance when he received members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) from the Edo State Polytechnic, Usen, who were on …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Conference of Non-governmental Organisations (CONGOs), on Thursday organized an interactive session between the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Cooperative/Civil Society groups to deepen public awareness of the various economic interventionist programs being implemented by Nigeria’s apex bank. The initiative, which was sponsored in partnership with the Moses Oisakede Leadership Foundation (MOLF), took place at the …

The German Government has picked Ghana as the location for the West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention. The German ambassador to Ghana, Christoph Retzlaff, made this known via a tweet. This is coming barely one week after Twitter also chose to locate its Africa base in Ghana. Retzlaff tweeted, “Excellent news: Germany Flag of Germany will support …

The West African Examinations Council has said that candidates can now collect Attestation of Results and Certificates from any of its offices in Nigeria. This is a departure from the past that required candidates to collect the said documents from the office of the Council in the state where they had their examination. In a statement signed by the Ag …

Some members of Nigerian Twitter community have dragged a former journalist with Premium Times, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, for defending Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, after exposing the National Youth Corps Scheme exemption certificate forgery of former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun. Following the outrage that greeted Abdulaziz’s story, Adeosun had resigned in September 2018 barely three years after …

The main opposition party in the country, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken strong exemption to a remark by President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigerians should expect ‘continuity’ from his administration, following his return from routine medical checks in London, the United Kingdom. The President had while fielding questions from a reporter at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on …

The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) says it will hold a nationwide peaceful protest on April 19 to further press home its demand for financial autonomy for the judiciary. The threat contained in a circular obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, is dated April 16 and signed by the Deputy Secretary of the union, P. Nnamani. JUSUN …

Authorities of the Adeyemi College of Education in Ondo, have banned the students from driving cars and riding motorcycles on campus. The Registrar of the college, Olufisayo Fakorede, in a circular dated April 15, said the ban was necessary to safeguard the lives of students and staff from students who drove recklessly. Mrs Fakorede said the management had received several complaints from …

Says  incident extremely horrific President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed deep sorrow over the loss of lives in the fire incident that razed a primary school in Niamey, capital of Niger Republic, killing more than 20 children. In a message to President Mohammed Bazoum, the government and people of Nigeria’s northern neighbour, President Buhari described the fire incident leading to …

Dr Anthony Aziegbemi, an Economist and Edo chapter Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has hailed the courage of Gov. Godwin Obaseki to mention the printing of N60 billion by the federal government to augment revenue allocation. Obaseki had in an expose alleged that the country was in troubled times that it had to print the currency in order …