Tag: Ebonyi

Nigerian Final-Year Varsity Student Commits Suicide

Ganiyu Amodu

The Police Command in Ebonyi on Thursday confirmed an alleged suicide by a final year student of the state University in Abakaliki. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the student, identified as Miss Favour Ugwuka, allegedly committed suicide in her hostel room at the Ishieke campus of the university on Wednesday. NAN further learnt that the deceased, who was in the English Department before her death, passed all her courses but repeatedly failed a particular course. Confirming the incident, the spokesman for the state command of the Police,…

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Eight States Got zero Investment In Four Years – Report

Abibat Babalola

At least eight states failed to attract any foreign investments but piled up N194.09bn debt between 2019 and 2022, according to findings by The PUNCH. Data from the Capital Importation reports of the National Bureau of Statistics revealed that Bayelsa, Gombe, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Kebbi, Taraba, Yobe and Zamfara did not attract any foreign investments to their states. However, data from the Subnational Debt reports of the Debt Management Office showed that these states had a combined debt of N710.38bn in 2019. By 2022, the combined debt of these eight states had…

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3-day Thunderstorms, hazy weather To Rock Lagos, Abuja, Others – NiMet

Dawud Rabiu

Vital weather information about your state and 35 other Nigerian states in the next three days, according to NiMet   The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMet, outlook, released on Saturday in Abuja, has predicted sunny and hazy atmosphere from Sunday to Tuesday across the country. “Except southern parts of Adamawa, southern Kaduna and Taraba state where isolated thunderstorm are expected during the afternoon and evening hours, cloudy skies with intervals of sunshine should prevail over the North central states during the morning. “Later in the day, isolated thunderstorms are anticipated over…

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