No fewer than 21 inmates serving their various jail terms at the Jos Correctional Center are currently participating in the ongoing 2022 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). ASC Geofrey Longdiem, the Public Relations Officer of the Plateau Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service, disclosed this to the News Agency …
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A 45-year-old woman, Peace John, has been diagnosed with mouth tumour after three years of severe pain. The woman’s daughter, Godsgift, has raised the alarm over the deteriorating health of her mother who was forced out of business because of her ailment. Godsgift, who resides in the Akoko-Edo …
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The Federal Government said yesterday that 34 of the 36 states of the federation have domesticated the Child Rights Act dealing with issues of child abuse, child labour, and forced marriage, among others, in Nigeria. The proposed law, named “Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act (2015),” had been domesticated by just …
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LAGOS—THE Association of Scrap and waste Pickers of Lagos, ASWOL, yesterday, said it has started the uploading of the profile of no fewer than 3700 registered waste pickers on its newly launched website. Speaking during the Nigerian Artisans Technicians Conference held in Lagos, President of the association, Mr Friday Oku …
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A former Executive Director of Programmes Nigerian Television Authority, Mrs. Eugenia Abu, has said that Nigerians vote more in the popular reality show, Big Brother Naija, than in elections in the country. Abu, who said this on Thursday while delivering a convocation lecture at the fifth convocation ceremony of Salem …
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AHEAD of the 1993 presidential election, General Ibrahim Babangida, the then military head of state, made a profound statement. He said: “I don’t know who will succeed me, but I know who will not.” Sadly, that statement panned out with the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election. Yet, …
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It was an emotional scene on Wednesday in Abuja as angry commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada, watched helplessly as their over 356 impounded motorcycles were crushed by officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA. While the FCTA has not pronounced a blanket ban on commercial motorcycle operations, there …
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President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has said that Nigerian university studenta were paying high tuition fees. He said it would be counterproductive and ill advised for the government to introduce new circle of fees in the system in the harsh economic realities of the times. …
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The Lagos State Government has said it has empowered over 8,000 farmers through the Agro-processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support project since its inception. The state Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, disclosed this on Monday during a courtesy visit by the World Bank and APPEALS Project representatives for …
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A 17-year-old malnourished girl, Khadija, who was locked up by her aunt in a house in the Rikkos, Jos North Local Government area of Plateau State, has been liberated. Another girl, brought by an aunt from the East, was equally rescued. She was maltreated and made to sleep in shed …
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