The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Prof Suleiman Bogoro, has inaugurated completed projects at the University of Jos. Inaugurating the projects on Thursday, Bagoro commended the management of the university for the feat achieved . He said the projects, in addition to adding value and changing the face of the university, will enhance…
In this powerful episode, Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum speaks with Mercy and Prof Solomon Tarfa about the long and painful struggle to secure the release of children taken from their orphanage in Kano, Nigeria. They reveal disturbing allegations of: • Children being forced into conversions and given new identities. • Orphans taken from Asaba and transported…
By Sylvanus Tyoakaa, Abuja The Senate has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to declare all know leaders of terrorist wanted. The call was made on Wednesday in a six-point resolution reached by the senate following a motion considered on the urgent need to stem the increasing spate of kidnappings and insecurity across…
Hoodlums, under the guise of protest on Monday, attacked a branch of a commercial bank in Tudun Wada area of Kaduna. The criminals vandalised the building using stones and other weapons. Several vehicles within the premises of the bank were smashed to shreds. The miscreants also made away with some motorcycles parked within the premises…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has passed a vote of confidence on the leadership of the Director-General of the National Research Institute for Chemical Technology (NARICT), Zaria, Prof. Jeffrey Barminas. In a statement on Sunday in Kaduna, the students union body dismissed claims in some quarters that Barminas is occupying the office illegally,…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it is has no plan to further extend the February 10 deadline for the swapping of old naira notes with new notes. The CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, stated this on Friday at a briefing at the Lagos office of the bank. Emefiele said the CBN as well as…
