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Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde has shown Vice-Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Ogbomoso (LAUTECH) Prof Michael Ologunde the door marked exit. Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Olasunkanmi Olaleye, stated this in a letter on Friday. The letter reads: “His Excellency, Engr. Seyi Makinde, the Governor of Oyo State and the visitor to the Ladoke Akintola University, has directed ...
April, 2021
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17 April
Henceforth, JAMB bans parents from UTME venues
The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, has ordered all CBT Centres across the country not to allow parents/guardians into the registration hall again. A statement signed by JAMB Spokesman in Ilorin Office, Hassan Lawal, quoted Oloyede as saying that the decision was made after inspecting some of the registration centres in Kwara, which were ...
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17 April
Kidnappers of Kaduna students demand N500m ,Parents begs FG
Kidnappers who abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State are demanding N500 million ransom and are threatening to kill the abductees if this demand is not met. This was disclosed by parents of the kidnapped students who say they are losing hope and are uncertain about the government’s promises and intervention. Thirty-nine students were initially ...
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17 April
Omojuwa: Omokri begs Ezekwesili to withdraw fraud petition from IGP
A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has appealed to former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, to withdraw a petition she wrote to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, demanding the prosecution of blogger and social media influencer, Japheth Omojuwa, for alleged fraud. Omokri, in a Facebook post on Friday, implored Ezekwesili to show Omojuwa the “love ...
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17 April
COVID-19 vaccine: 8,439 adverse reactions recorded in Nigeria
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has revealed that a total of 8,439 mild adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) had been reported since vaccination began in March. Dr. Faisal Shuaib, the executive director and CEO, NPHCDA, said this at a press conference by NPHCDA and World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday in Abuja, on the status of the ...
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16 April
Pressure mounts on Pantami to resign over alleged terrorists link
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, is under intense pressure to resign. The hashtag #PantamiResign has since been trending online having well over 18,000 retweets as of the time of filing this report. He has come under fire on popular social media platform, Twitter, over his alleged link with terrorist groups, Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The Nigerian Twitter community ...
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16 April
Inmates, officers injured in another foiled Edo jailbreak
Inmates and officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service were injured on Wednesday in an attempted jailbreak at the Medium Security Custodial Centre Ubiaja in Edo State. They were eventually repelled and overpowered due to the re-enforcement of armed personnel of the Correctional Service, the Police Force, Nigerian Army, NSCDC and the DSS who were deployed to the Custodial center to ...
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16 April
COVID-19: NCDC announces 80 new cases, total now 164,080
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced 80 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 164,080. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. It stated that the country reported no death relating to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, while the country’s death toll was 2,061 since the ...
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16 April
Eight arrested over refusal to fast in Kano
The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested eight persons at Tudun Murtala in Nassarawa Local Government Area and Hudebiyya in Sharada, Kano, over their alleged refusal to fast during Ramadan. The Executive Director of the board, Dr Aliyu Kibiya confirmed the arrest in a statement signed by Malam Lawal Ibrahim, Public Relations Officer of the board in Kano on Thursday. ...
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16 April
263 houses for demolition as Lagos starts rail project, 25 compensated
No fewer than 263 properties are affected with the construction of the 37-km Rail Mass Transit Red Line, which will traverse from Agbado to Marina, Lagos State. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State kicked off the construction of the rail line expected to move more than one million commuters daily on Thursday, a statement from the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, ...
