President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the upgrade of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, Kogi State, to a Teaching Hospital.The Vice Chancellor, Federal University, Lokoja, Prof. Akinwumi Olayemi, on Tuesday, disclosed this in a joint press conference at the Adankolo campus of the institution in Lokoja.Olayemi said the President made the
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An associate professor of journalism at the Lagos State University, Dr Tunde Akanni, has asserted that political parties in Nigeria no longer have ideologies.Akanni stated this in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, when he presented a paper titled: "Understanding Conflicts and Drivers of Conflicts", at a training for journalists
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Prof. Ibrahim Dabo, the Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, says the university is working to develop a made-in-Nigeria car that will use water.The dean made this known on Saturday in Zaria while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the commemoration of the 2023
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Mother of Whitney, a student of Chrisland High School, Ikeja who died while she was under the school’s care, said that an autopsy revealed her daughter was electrocuted.Blessing Adeniran had accused Chrisland of negligence over the death of her daughter who died on February 9.However, the school management absolved itself
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Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited has resumes its one-year sabbatical and research internship programme with 15 academics and research interns inducted.The event which was held recently at the Port Harcourt Headquarters of the company, marked the resumption of the annual programme after it was suspended in 2021 following
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The Federal Government on Monday directed all Polytechnics in the country to shut down until after the forthcoming general elections.The development came a week after issuing a similar directive for the closure of all Universities in the country.The directive was contained in a circular issued by the Federal Ministry of
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Nestlé Nigeria has commissioned Technical Training Centre, (TTC), in Ogun state, to help young people build the capabilities and skills they need to contribute towards accelerating industrialisation.The Training centre in Ogun State is the third in the country. The first technical training centre was inaugurated in 2011 at Nestlé’s Agbara
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The Federal Government has directed all universities to be shut from February 22 to March 14 over concerns expressed on the security of staff, students, and properties of the institutions.A letter by the National Universities Commission directed all heads of institutions to close down, adding that no academic activities will
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The Nigeria Labour Congress, on Wednesday, elected Joe Ajaero as its national president.Ajaero, who until his emergence was also the general secretary of the Nigerian Union of Electricity Employees, emerged as the NLC national president at the 13th National Delegates’ Conference of the labour union ongoing in Abuja.The conference, which
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cancelled the registrations of 817 candidates in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who made this known after separate meetings with stakeholders, said the registrations were invalidated over identified infractions bordering on use of strange
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