The Federal Government on Wednesday approved the exemption of universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other tertiary institutions of learning from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System. It said, henceforth, remunerations to staff members of these institutions would no longer flow through the platform. The Minister of the Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris,…
Poland’s president on Wednesday swore in Donald Tusk as the new pro-EU prime minister, putting an end to eight years of right-wing populist rule. The ministers of the new administration were successively sworn in by the conservative head of state, who is allied with the previous government of the Law and Justice (PiS) party. Tusk,…
Goods worth several millions of naira have been destroyed in a fire incident that occurred at the Enugu Motor Spare Parts Market, known as Tinker. The fire also claimed the life of the watch officer of the State Fire Service, Chigozie Ugwu slumped and died after he and his group successfully stopped the fire. According…
A 200-level student of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan (UI) in Oyo State, has been arrested by the institution’s security officials for allegedly raping a 100-level colleague within the campus. It was gathered that the student was reported to the authorities of the institution for committing the crime against his colleague who is…
A female health worker attached to Primary Health Care Centre Girei LGA in Adamawa State, identified as Florence Vandi, has allegedly committed suicide while protesting the death of her boyfriend. Late Florence, an indigent of Michika LGA who resides at Viniklang in the Girei Local Government Area, took her life by consuming a local substance…
The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the electrocution of a yet-to-be-identified person in the Day Waterman area along the Kobape area of the state. The police said on Wednesday that the yet-to-be-identified man was cutting the cable that belongs to the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company when the incident happened. Our correspondent learnt that a…
Pope Francis has chosen to be buried not in St Peter’s Basilica alongside his immediate predecessors but in a basilica in Rome, he revealed in an interview broadcast on Wednesday. “The place is already prepared. I want to be buried in Santa Maria Maggiore,” the pontiff, who turns 87 this weekend, told Mexican broadcaster Televisa’s…
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has disclosed that he travelled to Bangkok, Thailand for vacation and used the opportunity to check his medicals in a bid to keep fit. The Governor while speaking with newsmen upon his return to Nigeria on Wednesday morning, said he is back, fit and ready for more work. “I went…
A Facebook user identified as Onoh Chukwuma on Tuesday reportedly took his own life by ingesting an insecticide allegedly for losing N2.5m to betting. Onoh had on his Facebook wall posted a message saying that it was his last day on earth and that he was going to meet his maker. Unknown to those reading…
President of Turkey’s Ankaragucu football club, Faruk Koca, has resigned following his attack on a referee during a match late Monday. The top-flight SuperLig indefinitely suspended matches and a court placed Ankaragucu club president, Faruk Koca, and two others in pre-trial detention for “injuring and threatening a public official”. Images of Monday night’s incident showed…
