Day: June 19, 2022

Competency Test: El-Rufai sacks NUT president, 2,356 other teachers

Abibat Babalola

The Governor Nasir El-Rufai -led Kaduna State Government has dismissed 2,357 teachers who failed the recently conducted competency test. The state’s Universal Basic Education Board (KADSUBEB) announced the sack in a statement on Sunday in Kaduna. KADSUBEB’s spokesperson, Hauwa Mohammed, said the board conducted a competency test for over 30,000 teachers in December 2021. READ ALSO: NCDMB trains Teachers on New STEM Educational Device Tinubu promises 15,000MW Electricity, 25% Budgetary Allocation to Education Junior Education Minister Nwajiuba Resigns After Buhari’s Order Lagos Gets 2 New Varsities, Merges Colleges of Education…

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No Fat, No Prize: Bodi Tribe Where Only Fattest Men Are Heroes

Amodu Ganiyu

How men of Bodi tribe drink gruesome mixture of blood and milk while living in isolation for six months, parade naked in fierce competition to be crowned the Fattest. Those with six packs (body) labour hard and pray fervently to get big bellies or else they live life in shame   At a corner within the Ethiopian territory lives the Bodi tribe where big bellies in big body mean everything. Here, men do what may be considered the unthinkable. They compete to be the fattest in the village by drinking…

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Ogun Deepens Housing Investment, To Construct 400 flats At PMB Estate

Ganiyu Amodu

In furtherance of its commitment towards provision of housing infrastructure for its teeming population, the Ogun State government has entered talks with a consortium of estate developers for the construction of about 400 housing units, spread on 50 hectares of land at the President Muhammadu Buhari Estate, Kobape, in Abeokuta. Platforms Africa reports that the houses to be constructed in detached and semi-detached duplexes fall within the first phase development of the estate located in the State capital. READ ALSO: Ogun Gov Abiodun’s ex-aide, Abidemi Rufai, pleads guilty to $350,000…

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Officers Burst Into Jubilation As Court Stops E-Customs

Abibat Babalola

Here are answers to some of the and-then-what questions about the Customs modernisation project and why its introduction has been greeted by conflicting views Some Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), at the weekend, reportedly burst into jubilation and expression of satisfaction over the interim injuction by a Federal High Court, Abuja restraining the Nigerian Government from enforcing or giving effect to an agreement on the Customs modernisation project. Platforms Africa reports quoting a document of the Business Insider that the officers who craved anonymity, said that the modernisation…

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US Calls For ‘Humane Treatment’ Of Americans Captured In Ukraine

ADESUPO OSOSANYA

President Joe Biden’s administration, while sending billions of dollars worth of weapons and economic aid to Ukraine, argues that the United States is not directly fighting Russia and has discouraged Americans from traveling to the war zone.   The United States on Thursday urged Russia to treat any American volunteers captured while fighting alongside Ukrainian troops as prisoners of war guaranteed humane treatment. The State Department also said that a third American was believed to be missing in Ukraine in addition to two military veterans who were reportedly seized by…

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38 Nigerian Fighters Killed in Ukraine – Reports

Nurudeen Oyewole

“Payments to foreign mercenaries to fight in Ukraine go up after 85 Nigerians who arrived to heed the call from Kiev to join a “foreign legion” to defeat Russia, are either killed or bolted” – Russian Ministry of Defense   No less than 35 Nigerians have perished in the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to information, coming from Russian authorities on the five-month campaign, which was launched in February. A report by New Telegraph quotes the Russian Ministry of Defense to have published a Portable Document Format (PDF) data summary of the number…

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Hajj 2022: N5.35bn Invested As Kano Airlifts 2,229 Pilgrims To Mecca

Abibat Babalola

The Kano State Pilgrims Welfare Board, says a total of 2,229 Pilgrims would perform the 2022 Hajj from the state. Platforms Africa reports that with the fare pegged at N2.4 million per pilgrim by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), the operation is to gulp N5.3496 billion cumulative investments from all the 2,229 Intending Pilgrims. The board’s Executive Secretary, Alhaji Mohammed Abba-Danbatta, stated the number of intending pilgrims on Saturday in Kano at a news conference on preparations for the Hajj operations. He said that the Board is prepared and…

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BREAKING: APC’s Biodun Oyebanji Is Ekiti Governor-Elect – INEC

Gbenga Adeoti

Mr. Lecturer: The man, his mission and mantle; all you may need to know about the new Governor of the state with highest number of professors in Nigeria + his link to University of Ibadan and the defunct Omega Bank PLC    The Ekiti State’s keenly contested governorship election on Saturday concluded with APC’s candidate, Biodun Oyebanji as winner and by implication Governor-elect. Declaring the winner, Prof Oyebode Adebowale, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s Returning Officer for the election, said “Oyebanji, having scored the highest number of votes is…

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