Day: December 15, 2023

UK Set To Deport International Students Over Poor Grades

Abibat Babalola

The United Kingdom (UK) plans to deport international students in the country who do not achieve high enough grades. Platforms Africa reported that the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, has advised the United Kingdom Migration Advisory Committee to review the graduate visa as part of a five-point plan to reduce net migration by 300,000 from its record-high levels. The report announced that the UK granted two-year visas to over 98,000 international students to remain in the country after their graduation, reflecting a year-on-year increase of 42,000 or 74 per cent. READ…

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Education: Senior Lawyer, Ajulo, Advocates For Sale Of Correctional Centres

Ganiyu Amodu

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Kayode Ajulo, has advocated for the sale of some underutilised correctional centres in the country to fund education. Ajulo made the call in a letter he wrote to President Bola Tinubu, in Abuja, on Friday. Ajulo said: “I write on the need to sell some of the correctional centres in prime areas to raise funds for education in Nigeria.” He emphasised the pressing need for additional funding to support the development of education in the country, adding that Nigeria’s education sector has been facing…

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Akpabio’s Aide Denies Boss Collapse, Admission In Hospital Reports

Ganiyu Amodu

The media team of Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has dismissed reports that he collapsed on Thursday at the colloquium to mark his 61st birthday in Abuja. Reports filtered late Thursday that Akabio collapsed during the colloquium and was subsequently rushed to the National Hospital, Abuja. However, Akpabio’s Media team, in a statement signed by Eseme Eyiboh, debunked the reports, describing the claims as “fictionalised extensions of the Senate President’s assertion of being tired at the end of the programme”. Eyibioh said: “The rumours have been fanned by some social media…

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Treasonable Charge Against Kanu

Ganiyu Amodu

Nigeria’s Supreme has upheld treasonable charges against the detained proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. The ruling is still underway in Abuja. READ ALSO ECOWAS Suspends Niger From Regional Bodies Until Constitutional Order Restored Six Shirts Worn By Messi At World Cup Sell For $7.8m Reject World Bank’s Proposed N750/litre – NLC Warns Tinubu’s Govt Kanu has since been in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, since he was re-arrested in 2021. The Federal Government had prayed the court to set aside an earlier judgement…

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ECOWAS Suspends Niger From Regional Bodies Until Constitutional Order Restored

Ganiyu Amodu

The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS/CEDEAO) has officially suspended the Republic of Niger by all sub-regional bodies until constitutional order is restored in the country. This is contained in a statement by the regional organisation, following the decisions taken at the summit of heads of state and government held on Sunday in Abuja. “Until the 64th ordinary session held on December 10, 2023, the Conference of Heads of State and Government considered the situation in Niger as a coup attempt and continued to consider Mohamed…

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Six Shirts Worn By Messi At World Cup Sell For $7.8m

Ganiyu Amodu

Six football shirts worn by Argentine megastar Lionel Messi at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have sold for $7.8 million at auction, the auction house told AFP on Thursday. There were three bids in total on what auction house Sotheby’s described as “Lionel Messi’s match-worn iconic light blue and white, vertical striped Argentina shirts from his historic 2022 FIFA World Cup run”. The hammer price broke the record for a sale of an item linked to the Argentine star, and is the most valuable item of sporting memorabilia sold…

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Reject World Bank’s Proposed N750/litre – NLC Warns Tinubu’s Govt

Abibat Babalola

The warning from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to the Federal Government is clear: it should not heed the World Bank’s advice to increase the pump price of petrol to N750/litre. Speaking to Punch, NLC’s Head of Information, Benson Upah, emphasized that any further price hikes for petrol would result in chaos within the country. He urged the government to reject the World Bank’s proposal, which suggests that petrol should be sold at about N750/litre, while the current rate stands between N620 and N650/litre in most locations across Nigeria. The…

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JUST IN: Ex-Anambra Governor, Ezeife, Is Dead

Ganiyu Amodu

Former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, is dead. A statement from Chief Rob Ezeife, on behalf of the family said he died at the Federal Medical Centre, Abuja, yesterday. Ezeife was governor of Anambra state between January 1992 to November 1993. The statement read, “On behalf of the Ezeife Dynasty of Igbo-Ukwu, I wish to announce the promotion to glory of our most distinguished son, ‘Okwadike’, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, CON, a former Federal Permanent Secretary, a former governor of Anambra State, a former Political Adviser to the President…

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