THE Federal Executive Council [FEC] is proposing a bill that would see 30 percent of applications received by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund go to the Student Loan Scheme. The bill seeks to amend Section 3 of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund Act No. 16, 2011, labelled ‘Establishment of the …
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THE Command Monitoring Unit, Eleweran of the Ogun State Police Command has arrested a notorious land speculator/grabber named Ambali Daudu (77) who from police reports has been terrorising and selling off other people’s landed property. Mr. Ambali Daudu who claimed to be the Baale of Daudu Village in the …
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AN Abuja-based Bureau de Change operator, Jamilu Abdullahi and third prosecution witness in the trial of Ali Bello, on Thursday, before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, gave a narrative of the financial transactions between him and the Kogi State government under former governor, Yahaya Bello. The …
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THE Federal Executive Council, FEC, is proposing an amendment to the National Identity Management Commission Act No. 23, 2007 to allow for foreigners living in the country to be issued the National Identification Number. The FEC, on Wednesday, also proposed the Economy Stabilisation Bill to pave the way for the …
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MALIAN singer Rokia Traore will be extradited from Italy to Belgium over an outstanding two-year prison sentence handed down in a child custody dispute, her lawyer said Thursday. The singer and guitarist was sentenced in absentia by a Brussels court last year on charges of parental abduction. She was arrested …
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Thursday presented Certificates of Return to the Governor-elect of Edo state, Senator Monday Okpebholo and his deputy, Hon. Dennis Idahosa. The event, which took place at the INEC headquarters, saw dignitaries, including the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Dr …
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FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, denied sacking the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for alleging that $49.8 billion was missing from the country’s coffers. Jonathan said Sanusi was suspended because the Financial Reporting Council queried CBN’s expenditure and that his …
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THE federal government has suspended some senior officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service over an allegation of infractions raised by Idris Okuneye (alias Bobrisky) A statement on Thursday by the Secretary, Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Board. Ja’afaru Ahmed read: “Following the viral video trending on social media on …
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THE first lady of Akwa Ibom state, Patience Umo Eno is died. The state Commissioner for Information, Ini Ememobong, made the announcement of the first lady’s death in a statement issued in the early hours of Friday. Ememobong said the first lady died on Thursday in a hospital in the …
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AN Osun State High Court sitting in Ede has remanded a traditional ruler, Elegbedi of Egbedi in Osun State, Oba Muideen Azeez, and four other defendants in the Ile-Ife Custodial Centre. The defendants were remanded on Thursday following their inability to perfect the bail condition granted by the court. Newsextra24 …
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