THE Imo State Commissioner of Police, Nasiru Mohammed, and his top officers have been booted out following Monday’s attack on the state Police Command headquarters and the Nigerian Custodial Centre which led to the release of 600 suspects and 1,884 inmates from the correctional facility. It was gathered on Thursday that Mohammed was removed alongside the...
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Fashola advocates redesign of medical school infrastructure
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has advocated the redesigning and rehabilitation of medical school infrastructure in the country. Fashola said this while delivering a lecture, titled, ‘Medical Education in Nigeria: The Challenges of Infrastructural Decay,’ at the seventh Felix Oladejo Dosekun Memorial Lecture at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos...
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NIN inclusion delaying commencement of UTME registration – JAMB
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has apologised for the delay in the commencement of its registration which it said was “speculated” to begin on Thursday. A statement issued on Thursday by the spokesperson of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed that the delay was caused by some unforeseen circumstances occasioned by its determined effort to...
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FG approves 20 private varsities, says existing 197 too small
THE Federal Government on Thursday said the 197 universities in Nigeria were too small given the country’s growing population which presently stood at over 200 million. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, represented by the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this during the presentation of provisional licences to 20 newly approved...
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FG meets resident doctors after eight-day strike today
The Federal Government and the National Association of Resident Doctors will on Friday (today) hold a meeting to address the ongoing strike embarked upon by the doctors. The Ministry of Labour and Employment spokesman, Charles Akpan, disclosed this in an invite to journalists on Thursday. He said the parley which would hold at the ministry,...
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CBN freezes another 194 accounts of firms, BDCs, others
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday said it got orders from the Federal High Court, Abuja division, to freeze 194 bank accounts belonging to firms and Bureaux de Change to enable it to conduct investigations into suspicious activities. It disclosed this on Thursday in three separate documents on its website. READ ALSO: MTN partners fintechs...
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MTN partners fintechs as talks with banks lingers
MTN has activated a number of new channel partnerships with fintech companies as the company continues meeting with the commercial banks on a new pricing structure agreement. MTN’s initial meeting for the reduction of the charges held on Tuesday with the banks ended in a deadlock and is expected to continue until a new long-term...
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Petrol price hike imminent as NNPC declares N120bn subsidy unsustainable
The Group General Manager, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, on Thursday said the Federal Government subsidises Premium Motor Spirit with about N120bn ($263.25m) monthly. He said while the actual cost of importation and handling charges amounts to N234 per litre the government had been selling at N162 per litre therefore bearing the difference. Kyari...
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Marketers project petrol price reduction as oil falls
Brent, the oil against which Nigeria’s crude is priced, continued its fall in price on Thursday with oil marketers in the country projecting that such a persistent plunge in global oil prices could lead to a reduction in petrol pump price. Industry figures showed that global oil prices maintained their steady decline on Thursday as...
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PDP to reconcile south east members
The National Working Committee (NWC) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it plans to organise a South West stakeholders meeting towards resolving the crisis in the zone, ahead of its zonal congresses. The PDP said this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja. Ologbondiyan said the NWC had scaled...