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A consortium of American Ivy League universities led by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have sued the Trump administration, seeking to block a directive that would strip foreign college students of their visas if the courses they are taking this Fall semester are entirely online. According to the new […]

The Edo State Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has commended the giant strides of the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, in the education sector, reaffirming the union’s support for the reelection bid of Governor Obaseki and his deputy, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu.   In a statement by the Union’s chairman, […]

After five years as the public face of the federal government’s anti-graft crusade, the suspension and arrest of Ibrahim Magu, acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who is being investigated for corruption is a major blight on the toga of President Muhammadu Buhari’s war on corruption that reinforces public perception that […]

  For those who say Nigeria is a country where wonders shall never end, they had vindication yesterday when former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the $9.7million and £74,000 seized from his house in 2017 by the Economic and Financial […]

Despite the massive mobilization of resources by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure victory for their candidates in the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in Edo and Ondo states, there are emerging indications that APC candidates – Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and his Ondo counterpart will be disqualified if the courts ruled that the caretaker committee […]

  Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases jumped to 30,249 as it recorded 460 cases on Wednesday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced on its official twitter handle. The NCDC said as at July 8, the number of new confirmed cases was 460 with 15 deaths recorded, while no new state had reported a case in […]

The Nigerian government on Wednesday cancelled its plan to reopen schools to enable students sit for the senior secondary certificate examinations and junior secondary certificate examinations. The  Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, had said on Monday, July 6, that schools would reopen for graduating students on August 4.  This changed on Wednesday […]

Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President, did not collect N4billion from former Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, as was reported in some online publications, his Senior Special Assistant on Media has said.   Laolu Akande, in a  statement issued on Wednesday, said he had been “inundated by wide the circulation of […]

  Governments and development partners must respond in a more coordinated, targeted, and rapid manner to be effective in limiting impact; An additional 49 million Africans could be pushed into extreme poverty by the pandemic and its aftermath; West and Central Africa stand to be worst hit.   Africa’s economic growth could rebound in 2021, […]

Mohammed Umar, the Head of Operations at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has been appointed the acting chairman of the agency.   Umar’s appointment follows the suspension on Tuesday of Ibrahim Magu, the former acting chair who has been in detention since Monday, being quizzed over allegations of corruption against him.   The new […]

Seven people lost their lives in an explosion that occurred at an oil facility operated by a unit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the organization said in a statement Wednesday.   The incident happened at Gbetiokun, OML 40, operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), on behalf of the NPDC/Elcrest Joint Venture. […]