The Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja, is dead. This was confirmed in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Wednesday. In the statement titled ‘Announcement of the Passing of Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja,’ Onanuga said Lagbaja died on Tuesday night…
The new Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has abolished the 18-year admission benchmark for tertiary institutions in the country. He also hinted at the possibility of reviewing the nation’s education policy. However, the minister stated that there would be no reversal of the Federal Government’s decision to void over 22,700 degree certificates obtained by…
The Government of Equatorial Guinea has restricted its citizens from downloading and sharing multimedia files using mobile data on WhatsApp. This decision was followed by the guidelines that the country’s government gave to telecommunications operators when it urged them to implement measures to restrict access to inappropriate content. The country’s Director General, National Financial Investigation…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday struck out the charges brought against a total of 119 #EndBadGovernance protesters. All 119 protesters were arraigned on Friday, November 1 on charges bordering on Treason felony, inciting to mutiny, among others. The defendants were arraigned in two batches at the previous proceeding. The first batch comprised…
An engineer at a Russian tank manufacturer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for high treason, after being found guilty of giving military information to Ukraine, a court said on Tuesday. The regional court in Sverdlovsk said Daniel Mukhametov, 32, was working as an engineer at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil in Russia’s Urals…
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has asked the new Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa to resolve all outstanding issues before the resumption of full academy activities at the Federal College of Education, Technical, Lagos, which re-opened on Monday after a two-month closure. Specifically, the Lagos Joint Campus of NANS said it could…
The Adaatan of Asa in Olaoluwa local government area of Osun state, Oba (Dr.) Adeolu Akinmoyero, has thrown his weight behind the reelection bid of Governor Ademola Adeleke. The monarch stated this during the official inspection by the Osun Primary Healthcare Renovation Project Committee to the newly rehabilitated and upgraded Asa MDG Primary Healthcare centre,…
The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) has clarified that no directive has been issued to workers to change the financial institutions registered on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System(IPPIS) platform as their salary accounts. In a statement in Abuja, the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation said the…
Donald Trump’s faithful are descending on US swing state Michigan, buzzing with excitement for a final chance to see their champion deliver his greatest hits at his traditional last stop before Election Day — and utterly convinced of his inevitable victory. “If you look at the numbers of people, you look at the rallies, it’s…
President Bola Tinubu on Monday directed the immediate release of all minors who were arrested over their alleged participation in August’s #EndBadGovernance protests. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced this to State House correspondents during an emergency briefing at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. Idris said, “The President has ordered the…
