Month: August 2024

The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Federal Scholarship Board, has initiated payment for outstanding allowances owed to foreign scholars under the Bilateral Educational Agreement (BEA) scholarship program. The BEA scholarship aims to facilitate educational exchange between Nigeria and partnering countries. Recently, the Federal Ministry of Education announced a reduction in allowances for foreign scholars…

The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (KAI) has discovered a warehouse storing banned styrofoam products in the Idumota area of the state. This revelation was made by the Commissioner of the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, in a video shared on social media. According to Wahab, the styrofoam packs have been confiscated…

The Caretaker Committee of the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced its intention to appeal the state High Court’s decision to nullify its appointment. The committee’s chairman, Chief Tony Okocha, made this statement in response to the court’s ruling on Monday, which reinstated the Chief Emeka Beke-led elected executives of…

Yes, it was exactly one week yesterday, on August 4th, 2024. My friends and I had finished a gathering we had somewhere in Awka, the capital city of Anambra State, which though didn’t start early enough on Saturday, August 3. We broke the day there, as the gathering officially ended at about 2.am. Awka had…

The Nigeria Police Force has revealed that its recent raid on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) complex in Abuja was aimed at gathering evidence against an international suspect accused of threatening Nigeria’s democracy. According to Force spokesman Muyiwa Adejobi, the August 7 raid targeted a specific office on the second floor of the complex, where…

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has accused the University of Calabar of fraudulently mobilizing 101 graduates for national service during the 2021, 2022, and 2023 NYSC Service Years. According to a statement signed by the NYSC management, 99 of these individuals were graduates, while two were exempted. The NYSC has declared that the certificates…