The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TetFund) has approved the sum of N292.7 billion for disbursement to selected public universities, polytechnics and colleges of education across the six geopolitical zones of the country. Executive Secretary of TETFund Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at a meeting of stakeholders of beneficiary institutions. He said…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has condemned the attack on the killing of two officers and the abduction of one other in an attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) by bandits. The hoodlums had invaded the military institution in the early hours of Tuesday, killing two officers while one officer was abducted. The ACF…
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) has confirmed the attack on the institution by bandits, saying its security architecture was compromised. A statement on Tuesday in Kaduna by the Public Relations Officer of the Academy, Maj. Bashir Jajira said two officers were killed while one was abducted. Jajira said the Academy in collaboration with the 1Division…
Dare devil bandits have attacked the permanent site of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna, killing two officers. Sources said the bandits who arrived in large number also abducted one officer, injuring one other. The incident reportedly occurred in the early hours of Tuesday. The wounded officer was said to be receiving treatment at the Academy’s…
Seven people have been confirmed dead following an outbreak of what is suspected to be cholera in Tella Town, Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Innocent Vakkai, who confirmed the incident in Jalingo, on Monday, also disclosed that several others had been hospitalised in health care centres in the…
A Rivers state High Court has granted an interim order restraining Chief Uche Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The presiding judge, Justice Okogbule Gbasam, gave the order on Monday in ruling on a motion ex parte marked PHC/2183/CS/2021 filed by Ibeawuchi Alex, Dennis Amadi, Emmanuel Stephen…
