Day: May 1, 2023

How Editor Lost N70m Property in FAAN Demolition of Ajao Estate Mansions

Precious Ibekwe

Felix Abugu reacts, decries corruption in land-ownership regularization processes by FAAN   Details have emerged on how a former Editor of The Guardian on Saturday and former Deputy Managing Director of New Telegraph Newspapers, Mr. Felix Oguejiofor Abugu, lost his house in an early morning demolition of houses carried out at the weekend by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Valued at over N70 million, the house where Abugu and his family lived until Friday, April 28, 2023, stood on a plot of land bought 12 years ago from…

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We’ve Banned Importation Of Indomie Noodles – NAFDAC

Ganiyu Amodu

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has reaffirmed that the agency has banned the importation of Indomie noodles into the country. The Director General of the Agency, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, reiterated this in a press statement Monday. This is coming on the heels of the recalling of indomie noodles by Taiwan and Malaysia authorities following the discovery of ethylene oxide, a cancer causing agent. According to the NAFDAC boss, the compound of interest was ethylene oxide said already the Director of Food Lab Services Directorate…

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Troops Rescue Pregnant Chibok Schoolgirl

Ganiyu Amodu

Troops of 114 Taskforce Battalion, Bita in Borno State, have rescued yet another abducted Chibok schoolgirl kidnapped alongide others on April 14, 2014. 26-year-old Hauwa Maltha with serial number two on the list of abducted Chibok Schoolgirls, was rescued on April 21, 2023 along with her three-year-old baby by the troops during operations at Lagara. She is from the Kibaku tribe in Jila of Chibok LGA of Borno State. READ ALSO: JUST IN: Bus Evacuating Nigerian Students From Sudan Catches Fire Sanwo-Olu Unveils Lagos’ First Set Of Electric Buses +…

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JUST IN: Bus Evacuating Nigerian Students From Sudan Catches Fire

Ganiyu Amodu

A bus conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, caught fire in the early hours of Monday. “One of the buses conveying some 50 Nigerian students from Sudan with a tag number (Katsina 1) heading to Port Sudan as part of the second batch of FGN evacuation got damaged due to excessive heat from one of the vehicle’s tyres. “Dr Hashim Idris Na’Allah, the chairman of the Nigerian Elders’ Forum in Sudan, was one of the passengers in the said bus, which contained a total of 50 students (49…

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Sanwo-Olu Unveils Lagos’ First Set Of Electric Buses + PHOTOS

Ganiyu Amodu

The Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced the arrival of the first set of electric buses for the state’s mass transit scheme. Mr Sanwo-Olu made the announcement on Sunday via his Twitter handle. “I am excited to announce the first set of electric buses in the Lagos Mass Transit Master Plan as part of our increased effort to modernise every sector of Lagos,” he tweeted. “Thanks to our partnership with @Oando_PLC, Lagosians can expect a cleaner and greener public transportation system. “With the ability to travel 280km at full…

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BREAKING: Egypt Opens Border For Nigerians Fleeing Sudan

Abibat Babalola

Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), says Egypt has finally opened its border for Nigerian students evacuated from Sudan. READ ALSO: JUST IN: 1.6 Million UTME Candidates To Get Results Tuesday – JAMB Nigeria’s Bank Of Agric In N3.2b Loan Racket Sudan Crisis: Egypt Refuses To Open Border, Nigerians Heading To Port Sudan Dabiri-Erewa said the border was opened after President Muhammadu Buhari spoke with Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the Egyptian president.

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JUST IN: 1.6 Million UTME Candidates To Get Results Tuesday – JAMB

Ganiyu Amodu

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that it would commence the release of results of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from Tuesday, May 2, 2023. According to data obtained from JAMB, about 1.6 million candidates across over 708 centres participated in the examination, against the 1.7 million registered candidates that sat for it last year. Platforms Africa reports that the information abiut release of results was contained in the minutes of a meeting held at the end of an emergency management meeting held over the…

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Nigeria’s Bank Of Agric In N3.2b Loan Racket

ADEOLA YUSUF

. Parliament Fumes As Bank Purchases Tractors For 10 Unnamed Vendors       The Senate has indicted the Bank of Agriculture in Kaduna over N3.2 billion loan disbursed to ten vendors to purchase tractors and other equipment for allocation to end users. The indictment was sequel to the 2016 report of the Auditor General of the Federation considered by Senate Public Accounts Committee chaired by Senator Mathew Uhroghide. READ ALSO: Sudan Crisis: Egypt Refuses To Open Border, Nigerians Heading To Port Sudan Real Estate Stakeholders To Brainstorm At Metro…

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Sudan Crisis: Egypt Refuses To Open Border, Nigerians Heading To Port Sudan

Abibat Babalola

The Egyptian Government has insisted on not opening is border to Nigerians fleeing from the war in Sudan.       The Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, confirmed this to The Eagle Online. In a WhatsApp message following enquiries from The Eagle Online in the early hours of Monday, Dabiri-Erewa said an alternative had been sought to move the stranded Nigerians through another route. She said: “So they are heading to Port Sudan, which is another hours of journey, from which we will then fly them out.…

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Nigerian Varsity Lecturer Allegedly Slaps Pregnant Student For Failing To Wear “Her Uniform”

Abibat Babalola

 In a video gradually making the rounds on the internet, a lecturer at the Imo State University identified as Dr Desmond Izuwanne of the department of Medical Laboratory Science, is currently the recipient of heavy social media backlash as he was captured physically assaulting a pregnant student in a lecture theater. In the video, the lecturer had confronted the student for failing to wear “her uniform” and instead turned up at the lecture hall in mufti. The pregnant student who had tried to explain to the lecturer that she had…

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