Nigerian Government Moves To Create More Universities, Gives Reason The Acting Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Chris Maiyaki, has responded to those criticising the Federal Government for approving more universities in the country. He argues that the current 272 public and private universities are not enough to accommodate the ever-growing demand for university education by the Nigerian youths. Members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have been vociferous in their opposition to proliferation of universities in Nigeria, noting particularly that the Federal Government has continued to approve new universities when the existing ones are not properly…
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Suspected Masquerade Who Flogged Female Nurse Until She Fell In A Gutter Arrested Police Operatives serving in the Nsukka Sector of the Enugu State Command’s Anti-Cultism Tactical Squad, have arrested a ‘’masquerade” popularly called Oriokpa, caught on tape physically assaulting a female victim at Ugwuoye Junction, Nsukka. The man behind the masquerade costume was later identified as Ugwuoke Ebube “m”, aged 22, of Enugu Road, Nsukka. A statement released by DSP Daniel Ndukwe, says an investigation into the case suggests that the suspect was part of a group of masqueraders that similarly assaulted a female nurse riding a motorcycle, as…
PHOTO: Female Soldier Caught For Stealing Gold Jewellery A Nigerian female soldier has been dismissed after confessing to stealing gold jewellery said to be worth N35 million from an army general’s wife she was attached to in Kaduna. Sources in the army identified the female soldier as Lance Corporal Jonah Comfort with service number 15NA/74/4422F. Comfort reportedly committed the offence earlier in May. She was said to have entered the senior officer’s room and stolen the jewellery. The female soldier subsequently sold the jewellery to a jeweller in Kaduna for N5 million. It was learnt that the army authorities did…
Nigerian Government Moves To Scrap HND Programmes Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Nigerian Government Moves To Scrap HND Programmes Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, Prof Tunji Olaopa, has called for the phasing out of Higher National Diploma (HND) programmes offered by polytechnics in Nigeria. At a dialogue organised by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) in Abuja, Olaopa proposed a comprehensive overhaul of the educational system to address the professional conflict between B.Sc./B.Tech. and HND holders. Referencing a 2007 memorandum from the Heads of Polytechnics and Colleges of Technology (COHEADS), Olaopa suggested converting polytechnics into campuses…
Drama As Bandit Arrested While Treating Gunshot Wound In Hospital The police in Plateau State have arrested a bandit while treating gunshot wounds at a hospital. Spokesman for the Plateau State Police Command, Alabo Alfred, said one the arrested bandit was among those who attacked Zurack Community in the Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State Alfred said men of the Police Force killed seven bandits in an “aggressive onslaught” by a combined team of DSS and other security operatives in Bangalala Forest of Wase Local Government Area. He added that arrested bandits had been transferred to the State Criminal…
JUST IN: FG, Increase Minimum Wage Offer Again The new minimum wage negotiation between the organised labour, organised private sector and Federal government took an interesting turn late midnight as the duo of FG and OPS made a new offer of N57,000 as the new minimum wage, while the organised labour reduced its initial figure from N500,000 to N497,000. A source at the meeting confirmed the development to Nigerian Tribune. Recall that the high-level meeting was stalled on Tuesday, following the absence of some governors who were billed to attend but failed to turn up. The Federal Government team had…
Real Reason Court Granted Disgraced Abba Kyari Part-time Bail Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted temporary bail to the former Commander of the Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, for two weeks on compassionate grounds to allow him to bury his mother. Kyari was granted bail in the amount of 50 million Naira, along with a surety in the same sum. The surety, who shall be Kyari’s counsel in the matter, is required to deposit a copy of their call-to-bar certificate with the court’s deputy registrar. Additionally, Kyari must surrender his travel passport…
FULL LIST: Beneficiaries Of BOI Loans Ibom Focus brings to you Beneficiaries Of BOI Loans No fewer than 75,809 beneficiaries received credit funding worth N496.72bn from the Bank of Industry in 2023. The loans disbursed to beneficiaries include large, medium, small and micro enterprises, creating approximately 2,198,953 direct and indirect jobs across the country. The chairman of the shareholders committee, Muhammed Bala, revealed the figure at the 64th annual general meeting, held on Wednesday in Abuja. This was as the bank announced a profit before tax of N153.81bn for 2023, marking a 117.69 per cent increase from the previous year’s…
‘Kano Government Reinstate Deposed Emir Sanusi’ The minority leader of the Kano State House of Assembly, Abdul Madari, has alleged that the New Nigeria Peoples Party-led government of Kano State is planning to reinstate Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano. Madari, who was speaking against the moves by NNPP lawmakers to amend Kano State Emirates Council law, told BBC Hausa that 12 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the House were not opposed to the amendment, provided none of the five Emirates would be dissolved and the Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, would not be deposed and…
BREAKING: Labour Bows To Pressure, Reduces Demand On Minimum Wage IN a bid to shift ground so as to ensure speedy conclusion of negotiation on new national Minimum Wage, the Organised Labour at the ongoing Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage meeting has reduced its demand from N615,000 to N500,000. A source at the meeting said that the government team is adamant about N54,000, complaining of non-availability of fund and the inability of the private sector to pay. But the private sector has made additional N3,00 taking up its offer to N57,000 from the initial N54,000. According to the…