Day: July 15, 2021

BREAKING: Nigeria Declares Tuesday July 20, Wednesday 21 Public Holidays

Aliyu Aliyu

  To commemorate this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebrations, the Federal Government has proclaimed Tuesday and Wednesday next week as public holidays. Dr. Shuaib Belgore, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, said this in a statement on Thursday.   READ ALSO: COVID-19: UNILAG shuts student hostels indefinitely BREAKING: Popular Singer, Sound Sultan, is dead Saudi dashes 160,000 Nigerians’ Hope, Bars Foreign Pilgrims from Hajj 2021 BREAKING: FG Declares Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21 Public Holidays    According to Belgore, Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of…

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Why we’re setting up Kwara Education Trust Fund: Gov AbdulRazaq

Aliyu Aliyu

  Kwara state Governor inaugurates Lateef Fagbemi’s ICT Centre   Kwara is establishing an education trust fund to mobilise resources for school infrastructure, provide affordable and qualitative education, and boost human capital development in the state, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq said on Wednesday. Speaking at the inauguration of a multimillion naira information communication technology (ICT) centre and a central administrative block donated to the Ansaru-ud-Deen College Ijagbo by Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), AbdulRazaq said the administration seeks sustainable partnership with private sector, philanthropists and corporations to fund school infrastructure, manpower development…

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COVID-19: UNILAG shuts student hostels indefinitely

Tade Salako

  The management of the University of Lagos has shut down the student hostels over reported cases of coronavirus on the campus. A member of the university’s Senate confirmed this to our correspondent on Wednesday. He said: “After getting the report, which I don’t like to discuss with you, we decided that the hostels should be shut down.” On whether COVID-19 Delta variant was discovered on the university campus, the source said: “No further comment.”

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33 killed, four churches, 215 homes burnt in Zangon Kataf LGA – SOKAPU

Dawood Rabiu

  For the 6th day running, armed gunmen, identified by their victims as Fulani herdsmen, have laid siege to several communities in Atyap land, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Southern Kaduna, leaving no fewer than 33 people dead an ongoing genocide and land grabbing in which 108 Southern Kaduna communities have been displaced and taken over since 2019. According to a statement signed by Luka Binniyat, the spokesperson for the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, in the latest orgy of bloodshed, the invaders stormed Magamiya village Tuesday night around 11pm…

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