Day: August 15, 2023

Wike Visits Ganduje Amid Defection Rumour

ADEOLA YUSUF

Former governor of Rivers State and a Minister designate, Nyesom Wike, visited the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, in Abuja, on Tuesday. Wike, who worked against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 election, has repeatedly denied plotting to join the ruling party. READ ALSO: UNICAL Professor Accused Of Harassing Female Law Students Speaks UPDATE: How Nigerian Air Force Helicopter Crashed In Niger JUST IN: Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Soars To 24.08% In July — NBS During a thanksgiving service organised in…

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UNICAL Professor Accused Of Harassing Female Law Students Speaks

ADEOLA YUSUF

Prof Cyril Ndifon, Dean of Faculty of Law of the University of Calabar, has reacted to allegations of harassing female law students sexually. Several students had staged a protest in the institution, accusing Ndifon of frequently harassing them sexually. They moved about in groups on the campus late Monday afternoon chanting, ‘Ndifon, go! go!’ READ ALSO: UPDATE: How Nigerian Air Force Helicopter Crashed In Niger JUST IN: Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Soars To 24.08% In July — NBS Subsidy Removal: UI Cuts Staff Workdays To Three Flood Alert: 19 States, 56…

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UPDATE: How Nigerian Air Force Helicopter Crashed In Niger

Abibat Babalola

An helicopter MI-171 belonging to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has crashed near Chukuba Village in Niger State. Helicopter on a casualty evacuation mission crashed on Monday near Chukuba Village in Niger State. NAF spokesman, Edward Gabkwet, who confirmed the accident in a statement, said the helicopter was on casualty evacuation mission to the state. The accident happened at about 1pm and the number of persons onboard or their state were unknown as of press time. READ ALSO: JUST IN: Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Soars To 24.08% In July — NBS…

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JUST IN: Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Soars To 24.08% In July — NBS

Ganiyu Amodu

Nigeria’s headline inflation jumped to 24.08 per cent in July 2023, the National Bureau of Statistics has revealed. This is the highest recorded leap in 2023 and a while. In June, inflation was recorded at 22.79 per cent, but has now jumped by 1.29 percentage points. READ ALSO: Subsidy Removal: UI Cuts Staff Workdays To Three FG Fires Advert Standard Panel Over ‘All Eyes on the Judiciary’ Billboards Flood Alert: 19 States, 56 Communities To Experience Flooding In Aug — NEMA The NBS said, “In July 2023, the headline inflation…

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Subsidy Removal: UI Cuts Staff Workdays To Three

Abibat Babalola

The University of Ibadan on Monday directed that work days be reduced from five to three for every worker in the school. This, according to the university management, is following the astronomical increase in fuel pump prices. This was revealed in a statement issued by the institution dated August 14, 2023, and signed by G.O. Saliu, Registrar and Secretary to Council. READ ALSO: FG Fires Advert Standard Panel Over ‘All Eyes on the Judiciary’ Billboards We’re Tired of Sucking D*ck: Nigerian Varsity Female Law Students Protest Against Dean Many Trapped…

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FG Fires Advert Standard Panel Over ‘All Eyes on the Judiciary’ Billboards

Ganiyu Amodu

The Nigerian Government has dissolved the Secretariat of the Advertising Standard Panel (ASP) over its approval of billboards which it claimed is blackmailing the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal with the title: ‘All Eyes on The Judiciary.’ The ASP is the Statutory Panel under the Council charged with the duty of ensuring that advertisements conform to the prevailing laws of the Federation as well as the Code of advertising ethics of the advertising profession. READ ALSO: We’re Tired of Sucking D*ck: Nigerian Varsity Female Law Students Protest Against Dean Diesel Price…

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We’re Tired of Sucking D*ck: Nigerian Varsity Female Law Students Protest Against Dean

Efe Wellington

“Prof Ndifon, let the girls with big breasts breathe, stop suffocating us!!!,” reads another placard which a female student waved in an uncommon protest that has set X, formerly Twitter, on fire   The Law Faculty of the University of Calabar yesterday witnessed an uncommon protest where scores of female students thronged roads on the campus against the dean. Platforms Africa reports that the female law students are accusing Professor Cyril Ndifon, their dean, of sexual assault. They brandished all kinds of unprintable phrases and clauses on placards to make…

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Many Trapped Under Collapsed Temple As Heavy Rains Kill 50 In India

Abibat Babalola

Heavy rains and landslides killed more than 50 people in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on Monday, according to local officials. Among those killed are at least nine people who died when flooding caused a temple in the state capital Shimla, a popular tourist area, to collapse. The incident happened at around 8 a.m. local time, the state’s chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu told Indian news agency ANI during a visit to the temple site on Monday. The bodies of those who died have been retrieved and the…

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Diesel Price Hits N950/Litre, Manufacturers Fear Shutdowns, Job Losses

Abibat Babalola

Oil marketers, on Monday, said the foreign exchange crisis in Nigeria and the recent implementation of a 7.5 per cent Value Added Tax on Automotive Gas Oil, popularly called diesel, had pushed up the cost of the commodity to between N900 and N950/litre in many states. The development has made local manufacturers say that the situation may lead to the closure of some factories and job losses. Speaking under the aegis of the Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria at a press briefing in Abuja, the marketers explained…

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NBTE: 9 Steps to Convert Your HND to BSc Degree In One-Year

ADEOLA YUSUF

The National Board for Technical Education has unveiled an online top-up programme for Higher National Diploma holders to convert their certification to Bachelor’s Degree through online top-up for one year, with foreign accredited universities. The board disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Monday by its Head of Media Unit, Mrs Fatima Abubakar. READ ALSO: Flood Alert: 19 States, 56 Communities To Experience Flooding In Aug — NEMA NBTE Unveils Online Top-up Programmes For HND Holders Your Honeymoon Over, Probe Fuel Subsidy Thieves, Bakare Tells…

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