Day: June 15, 2021

Nigerian Varsity, UNN, Awards $1 Prize To Best Graduating Students

Precious Ibekwe

“…even runners-up in the Big Brother Naija show still smile home with magnificent prizes such as Sports Utility Vehicles in a television programme devoid of academic rigour.”     One of the first generation Universities in Nigeria, University of Nigeria Nsuka (UNN), has awarded the sum of N1000 and N1500 to its best graduating students in several categories. In one of the categories, three students bagged first class and the prize was N1,500 to be shared among the three of them translating into N500 for each prize winner. The 49th…

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‘Twitter writes Nigeria over suspension, seeks dialogue’

Dawood Rabiu

“For Twitter to resume operation in Nigeria, there must be an agreement as to what contents it could post,” Lai Mohammed rolls out conditions for microblogging site   Microblogging site, Twitter, has formally written to seek for dialogue with Nigeria on issues leading to the indefinite suspension of its operations in the country. The country’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who declared this when he, on Tuesday, featured on “Politics Nationwide,’’ a Radio Nigeria call-in programme monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. “I can…

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BREAKING: Buhari Flags Off $12bn NLNG Train 7 Ground-Breaking

Efe Wellington

  Buhari who flaunted official role he played in NLNG inauguration when he was a Minister in 1978, says Train 7 project is to propel Nigeria as a major gas exporter, fully industrialised nation     Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday flagged off the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Train 7, a project he said would help propel Nigeria as a major gas exporter and a fully industrialised nation. Project promoter, NLNG, says the project would attract $12 billion Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Platforms Africa reports that Buhari who…

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