The Federal Government has ordered the closure of all Polytechnics in the country ahead of the forthcoming general elections. The order was contained in a circular issued by the Federal Ministry of Education, directing the Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris Bugaje, to communicate to Rectors and Provosts of polytechnics. The…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that voting would not hold in 240 polling units during the forthcoming general elections. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this during a meeting with political parties on Monday, February 13. According to him, “Let me therefore start with the issue of polling units. You may…
In a bid to protect his daughter from a sexual predator, a 51-year-old man, Frederick Olorunfemi has died, he died while fighting a school bus driver who allegedly molested his seven-year-old daughter in Lagos State. Frederick had gone to the school’s administration with his wife and daughter to report the molestation and request immediate action….
The Federal Government will obey the Supreme Court’s decision to halt the Central Bank of Nigeria’s deadline for exchanging old notes on February 10.Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said this during an interview with AriseTV on Thursday, February 9.According to him, the government is hoping that the ex…
The Federal Government has ordered the closure of universities across the country ahead of the 2023 elections. The National Universities Commission (NUC) in a letter addressed to vice-chancellors and directors of inter-university centres, said all universities are to be closed for three weeks. Chris Maiyaki, NUC’s deputy executive secretary (administration), said the directive followed an…
Two former top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Victor Briggs and Abiye Membere, have been sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Justice Nnamdi Digmba handed them the sentence on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, after he found them guilty of “unethically collecting car gifts as public…
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has cancelled the registration of 817 candidates in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The cancellation came, following discovery by the nation’s tertiary institutions admission body that the candidates engaged in various forms of irregularities while carrying out the exercise in various Computer Based Centres,CBTs, across the country….
A construction engineer, Samuel Oladele, has filed a fundamental human rights suit against the Inspector-General of Police, Commissioner of Police General Investigation Section ‘D’ Department, DCP. Sheik M. Danko, (Officer in Charge) Team “C” and General Investigation Section Dy ‘department: (Force CIID) annex, Alagbon close, Ikoyi, Lagos over alleged threat to his life Others in…
