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The depreciation of the naira against the United States dollar by 55 per cent at the official foreign exchange market has led to a commensurate depreciation in airfare in Nigeria. The naira had fallen from approximately 900/dollar to over 1,400/dollar on Monday after the FMDQ Exchange, which records data the nation’s official exchange rate, reviewed its methodology for calculating the ...
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February, 2024
January, 2024
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31 January
JAMB suspends 10,378 DE students’ admission.. see reason
No fewer than 10,378 candidates, who wrote the Direct Entry examination organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in 2023, currently have their admission suspended following the failure of their A-level issuing institution to submit a verification report to JAMB. In February 2023, JAMB issued an advisory to guide candidates seeking to gain admissions through Direct Entry in the ...
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26 January
Akpabio declares ‘Senate Online Loan Application’ as fake
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has described as fake an online loan application ascribed to the Senate. Akpabio made this known in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Eseme Eyibo, on Thursday. The statement said: “The attention of the Office of the President of the Senate has been drawn to a fake ‘N200,000 Palliative ...
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20 January
Nigerians Make-U-Turn, Call For Betta Edu’s Reinstatement
The embarrassed and embattled Minister us saying that the controversial Funds Received Presidential Approval “The instructions to release 3 billion Naira is clearly written in the said document. What does this mean? The buck stops at the table of Tinubu, he should be accountable for this. Betta Edu, who serves at the behest of the president, may just have been ...
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18 January
Students Loan Scheme takes off this January – FG
The federal government, on Wednesday, January 17, reaffirmed that the January target for the take off of the Students Loan Scheme is still very much intact.Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu, gave the affirmation while addressing journalists after the Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja. According to the Minister, that ...
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3 January
FG shuts 18 foreign varsity campuses after ‘fake degree story’
The Federal Government has banned 18 foreign universities operating in Nigeria, describing them as “degree mills,’’ warning Nigerians to avoid enrolling in such institutions. The decision was sequel to an undercover investigative report titled, ‘How Daily Nigerian reporter bagged Cotonou varsity degree in 6 weeks,’ published by the Daily Nigerian newspaper. The report exposed how some officials of the Beninese ...
December, 2023
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21 December
JAMB Denies Increasing Registration Fee (remains N3,500)
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has debunked rumours that it is increasing the 2024 registration fee. The Board’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. According to Benjamin, the information is far from the truth as the cost of obtaining the Board’s UTME application documents remains N3,500. The statement noted, ...
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18 December
Kuwait’s new Emir is Sheikh Meshaal
Heir Sheikh Meshaal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, 83, replaces Sheikh Nawaf who had ruled for three years. Kuwait’s crown prince and his half-brother, Sheikh Meshaal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, 83, was subsequently named new emir, a statement from Issa Al-Kandari, the deputy prime minister and minister of state for cabinet affairs said. Sheikh Nawaf was sworn in in September 2020 after the ...
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17 December
“Fake” Ogun private poly running law, nursing, pharmacy uncovered
Harvarde College is a private polytechnic where students are being admitted to study Law, Nursing, Pharmacy and other professional courses. Investigates has however shown that the institution, Havarde College of Science, Business and Management Studies, does not have accreditation to offer the courses Already some youths took to social media weeks ago; demanding that an institution of higher learning situated ...
October, 2023
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22 October
Student Beaten To Death with 105 strokes, Principal,Vice arrested !
Zaria Nuhu Sambo, a 19-year-old student of Al-Azhar Academy, Kofar Gayan Zaria, Marwanu, has been killed under controversial circumstances. The student, who was in JSS 3, was reported to have lost his life as a result of severe beating and corporal punishment by the teachers. It was gathered that Sambo was paraded in front of the school’s assembly for missing ...
