Vice President Kashim Shettima has lauded the MacArthur Foundation for its significant contributions to Nigeria’s development and democracy over the past three decades. Senator Shettima called on the Foundation to strengthen its partnership with the federal government to fast-track the delivery of the programmes and policies of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Speaking…
A student at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Ololade Ayelabola, has completed a new Guinness World Record, GWR, for the longest distance walked by a model. The model, who completed a 130.62km catwalk, started a 120km attempt on October 1 at the indoor sports centre of UNILAG. After hitting the 120km mark, she completed an…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says 84 of its members died between May and August 2024 due to economic hardship and unpaid salaries. ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, said this on a live television programme in Lagos. “In the past three months, from May to August (2024), Nigerian universities lost 84 academics to death….
Anambra State, under Governor Soludo, has continued to achieve remarkable success in education by winning FIVE prestigious awards at the 2024 President’s Teachers and Schools Excellence Award, held at the Eagles Square Abuja as part of the World Teachers’ Day activities organized by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The awards won by Anambra State are…
As teachers in Anambra State join their counterparts across the globe to celebrate World Teachers Day, Governor Chukwuma Soludo has been commended for making the teaching profession in the state more attractive to the younger generation through his investment in the education sector. Some stakeholders in the sector bared their minds on the sidelines of…
A statement from the Ministry of Finance on Saturday said the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, announced implementation of the initiative approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) started on October 1, 2024. Speaking after a post-commencement review meeting, Edun disclosed key stakeholders assured of the commencement of the…
The Federal Government on Thursday urged Nigerians to look beyond the horizon of bagging varsity degrees and start investing in skills acquisition and technological advancement. The appeal was made by the Director General of the National Productivity Centre, Baffa Dan Agundi, at the National Unity Robot Project held at the National Stadium in Abuja. To…
The Nigerian naira faced a significant depreciation in the official market on Wednesday, trading at ₦1,669.15 to the dollar. Data from the FMDQ Exchange, which manages the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market, indicated that the naira lost ₦127.21, marking an 8.24 percent decline compared to the previous trading session on Monday, September 30, when it…
A female resident of Lagos State participating in the ongoing nationwide #FearlessInOctober protests has lamented that she considers committing suicide over the extreme hunger and hardship under the President Bola Tinubu-led government. The woman who blamed the Tinubu’s administration for making it completely impossible for her to feed her children and take care of her…
Amidst plans by the Federal Government to allocate fresh funds for conducting integrity tests on all dams in the country, findings have shown that a total sum of N179.77bn was allocated for the construction and rehabilitation of dams across the country over the past 10 years. This is according to an analysis of budgetary allocations…
