Funds transfer policy affects returning students
A new clearing policy for funds transferred to accounts among banks in the country might affect the smooth resumption of educational institutions across the country as the new academic calendar opens next week in most states in Nigeria. Saturday Vanguard investigation in the Federal Capital Territory reveals many of the parents and guardians who remitted their children and wards’ tuition and other fees through banks other than the banks where their own accounts are domiciled are likely going to have their dependants returned home if they try to resume with the others earlier than on Monday.
I lost my cousin to Boko Haram – Dogara
By Emman Ovuakporie and Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja Speaker of the House of Representatives,Yakubu Dogara has recounted how he lost his first cousin, a Divisional Police Office, DPO, serving in Borno State to the Boko Haram sect in one of the attacks in the area. Dogara who disclosed this when he visited the Wassa Internally Displaced […]
Ronaldo soul of Madrid, untransferable – Zidane
Newly-appointed Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane warned Friday that star striker Cristiano Ronaldo would not be leaving the club under his tenure.
Chelsea top Premier League wage bill chart with £215.6m
Chelsea have usurped Manchester United and Manchester City at the top of the Premier League’s wage bill chart, according to annual figures released on Friday. The data, published by Companies House, the United Kingdom’s registrar of companies, showed that Chelsea spent more money on player salaries last season than any other team in the English […]
Opening a Window to the Outside World with Computers
One in ten children in Nigeria are classified as “vulnerable,” according to the Federal Ministry of Women’s Affairs & Social Development (FMWASD). A child is classified as vulnerable if, because of the circumstances of birth or immediate environment, is prone to abuse or deprivation of basic needs, care and protection and thus disadvantaged relative to […]
Lassa fever kills forty in ten states – Health minister
Forty people have died in Nigeria in a suspected outbreak of Lassa fever in 10 states across the country, Health Minister Isaac Adewole said Friday.
