Educationists have condemned some parents and school owners for excluding primary six classes, describing it as a violation of the country’s 6-3-3-4 academic system. A scholar, Faculty of Law at the University of Ilorin, Prof. Abdulrazaq Alaro, noted that a lack of compliance with the 6-3-3-4 education system had fostered underage admissions in the country….
Abia State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, (ABSACA), has pledged to ensure that it will continue to carry out Free medical/ HTS outreaches across the 17 LGAs of the State in line with the mandate given by the Governor of Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti. The Director General of ABSACA Dr. Mrs. Uloaku Emma-Ukaegbu,…
Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has declared ‘Operation Feed Everybody’ in the state and distributed agro-inputs to 2, 000 farmers. Nwifuru made the declaration during the official flag-off of agro-inputs and asset distribution at the FADAMA office, Onuebonyi, in Abakaliki on Thursday. The governor, represented by his Deputy Governor Patricia Obila, said that the…
President Bola Tinubu has revealed the location of the sponsors behind the planned nationwide protest. The protest has been scheduled to be held across all states of the Federation as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, in August. Food and basic commodities prices have skyrocketed recently. Nigerians are facing one of the worst…
Alleged bandits have stormed a prayer camp located in the Oluwalose community within the Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State. An unidentified couple from Lagos is reported to have been injured during an invasion at the camp located in Solaty village along the Okoolowo-Jebba expressway in Ilorin, around 1:30 am on Wednesday. The…
President Bola Tinubu has said that he spent his personal fortune on the election, confidently stating that he owes nothing to any cabal. The President who spoke during a meeting with a delegation of Islamic leaders led by Sheikh Bala Lau at the State House on Thursday, described his electoral victory as a result of…
In its bid to sanitize the working habits of the staff of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, the Ebonyi State House of Assembly Service Commission has slammed a Pro-rata system of payment of salaries starting from August 1st, 2024. Equally, as a way of keeping the Assembly complex clean and in shape, general clean-up exercises…
Meta Platforms said it had removed about 63,000 accounts in Nigeria that attempted to engage in financial sexual extortion scams mostly aimed at adult men in the United States (US). The majority of the scammers’ attempts were unsuccessful and although mostly targeting adults, there were also attempts against minors, which Meta reported to the U.S….
The Federal Government of Nigeria has been advised by the UN International Organisation for Migration, IOM, to give youths’ engagement in decision-making processes top priority in order to improve migration governance. In an interview with on Wednesday in Abuja, Laurent De Boeck, the Chief of IOM Mission in Nigeria, made this claim. During her presentation…
Arochukwu ancient kingdom, Abia State will be a beehive of activities starting July 25, as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other prominent persons, including national figures, royal fathers and business moguls will be storming the town for the Eze Aro of Arochukwu Coronation celebration. According to a Statement signed by the chairman National Coronation Celebration…
