NAF commences training of new batch of special forces
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has commenced the training of another batch of Special Forces (SF) personnel to boost internal security operations in the country. NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Daramola said the SF Course 5/2019 was inaugurated on […]
EFCC raid Zamfara INEC office, recovers 4 ‘Ghana-must- go’ bags
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday took away four ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags suspected to contain money from the Zamfara office of INEC.
Sex for Grades: UNILAG sets up panel to probe lecturers
The management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has set up a panel to investigate the allegations against two of its lecturers indicted in the sex-for-grades scandal. Boniface Igbeneghu, a senior lecturer, and Samuel Oladipo, a lecturer in the department of economics, were exposed in a documentary on sexual harassment released by the BBC Africa Eye on Monday. The […]
UNILAG ‘cold room’ as a metaphor
BEFORE now, the common perception of a cold room in our country has always been that of a storage facility for frozen food and drinks such as fish, turkey, chicken, yoghurt, ice cream and many others. However, recent revelation from a virile video which shows the ‘inside’ of the ‘cold room’ where lecturers ‘sexually harass’ students at the University of Lagos has changed all that.
$50bn Africa Food Import: Obasanjo urges DRC to invest in agriculture
By Gabriel Ewepu Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Tuesday, urged the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to invest more in agriculture, particularly cassava, soybean, cowpea and plantain, which will reduce Africa’s $50 billion annual food import bill. Obasanjo stated this during the official inauguration of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, Kalambo Research Station […]
2020 budget projections unrealistic — Senators
ABUJA- SOME senators, yesterday, dismissed projections of President Muhammadu Buhari’s N10.33 trillion 2020 budget proposal as unrealistic.
