TETFUND: Private universities deserve urgent intervention

TETFUND: Private universities deserve urgent intervention

By Aare Afe Babalola EARLIER in the year, I discussed extensively that the statement of some stakeholders that private tertiary institutions are money-making ventures and that if included in the TETFund scheme, such would deny the children from poor homes. I considered in particular the statement reportedly made by the Chairman of the TETFUND Board, […]
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Lekki Toll Gate massacre and a country in darkness [Opinion]

Lekki Toll Gate massacre and a country in darkness [Opinion]

By Kene Obiezu AFTER a year of heart-wrenching hearings, the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of SARS-related abuses and other matters which also investigated the Lekki Toll Gate shootings put its signature to a scorching 309-page report that has caught the Nigerian Army, the Nigeria Police and the Lekki Concession […]

Omicron Variant: AfDB postpones 2021 Africa Investment Forum

Omicron Variant: AfDB postpones 2021 Africa Investment Forum

The African Development Bank (AfDB) group, has postponed indefinitely, the 2021 Africa Investment Forum (AIB) scheduled for Dec. 1 to Dec. 3, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire until further notice. Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of AfDB, in a statement issued on Monday in Abidjan, said that the postponement was in relation to travel restrictions arising from […]

FEGOCOWOSA honours Okumagba with sports carnival

FEGOCOWOSA honours Okumagba with sports carnival

Fedeal Government College Warri Old Students Association, FEGOCOWOSA, recently held it 5th edition of sports carnival. Speaking at the sports carnival, Sophia Onyenkpa, Chairman, FEGOCOWOSA Lagos branch, said this year’s sports carnival with the theme, ‘Unity through Sports’, is tagged the Albert Okumagba Memorial Sports Cernival, in honour of Albert Okumagba who died a year […]

Cloud energy green promo unveils spread payment plan for solar products

Cloud energy green promo unveils spread payment plan for solar products

By Juliet Umeh Energy provider, Cloud Energy, has launched the Cloud Energy Green Promo, with a spread payment plan, designed to create permanent access to Solar Energy. Managing Director of the company, Engr. Theophilus Nweke at a virtual meeting, said that the Zoom meeting was triggered by the growing fact that there is no option […]

Transit Gas commissions another 12km Natural Gas Pipeline in Ogun, connects Celplas Industries FZE to Sagamu Gas Zone

Transit Gas commissions another 12km Natural Gas Pipeline in Ogun, connects Celplas Industries FZE to Sagamu Gas Zone

Transit Gas Nigeria Limited (“Transit Gas”), a subsidiary of Axxela Limited (“Axxela”), and in partnership with Nigerian Gas Marketing Company Limited (“NGMC”), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has successfully commissioned another segment of the Sagamu Gas Distribution Zone, a 12km natural gas pipeline connecting Coleman Cables to CelplasIndustries Park. The […]

Customs intercepts N71m meant for laundering in Katsina

Customs intercepts N71m meant for laundering in Katsina

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Katsina State says it has intercepted a vehicle loaded with more than N71 million suspected to be for laundering. Acting Controller at the command, Alhaji Dalhat Wada-Chedi, told newsmen in Katsina on Monday that the money was intercepted earlier in the month. “We intercepted the money with the vehicle […]

CAN advocates rotational presidency

CAN advocates rotational presidency

Lagos State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, said on Monday in Lagos that Nigeria should embrace a rotational presidency as a convention.

CVR: INEC records 4.4m fresh registrations

CVR: INEC records 4.4m fresh registrations

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has recorded 4,420,391 fresh registration in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) as of Monday, Nov. 29.

Adegoke: Group demands justice for deceased’s family

Adegoke: Group demands justice for deceased’s family

A human rights group, Women Arise and Centre for Justice has charged the Inspector General of Police, Mr Usman Alkali Baba, to ensure that investigation into the death of Timothy Adegoke, Obafemi Awolowo University’s postgraduate student is diligently done with a view to ensuring justice for the deceased’s family.