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  Presidential election petition: Tinubu wins editor The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja has struck out the suit filed by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) accusing Vice President Kashim Shettima of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of double nomination in the 2023 general elections. The chairman of the panel, Justice Haruna Tsammani, who […]

 TRCN charges teachers to embrace technology to remain relevant By Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has urged Nigerian teachers to acquire technological skills and embark on professional development in order to remain relevant in the fast-changing global knowledge. Registrar of TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, in a statement made available to […]

  Illegal structures demolition: Wike continues from where el-Rufa’i stops? Editor Officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on the directive of the new FCT minister, Nyesom Wike,  have demolished a market called “Kasuwan Dare”. The market located at Hassan Musa Katsina Street, near Kpaduma II in Asokoro Extension, Abuja, was suspect to harbour […]

  Insecurity: Don’t redeploy General Abubakar,  Plateau youths appeal to Army Editor Just two months after resumption as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Division, Jos, Plateau state and Commander, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Youths and community members of the region, resident in Kogi state have appealed to the Nigerian Army to allow Major-General Abdulsalam […]

Military seizes power in Gabon, Bongo’s fate hangs editor A group of senior Gabonese military officers appeared on national television in the early hours of Wednesday and said they had taken power, minutes after the state election body announced President Ali Bongo had won a third term. Appearing on television channel Gabon 24, the officers […]

TETFund assists Kaduna College with N550m to tackle insecurity  By Uji A. Iliyasu  Abuja Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, said it has disbursed N550 million to Kaduna State College of Education at Gidan Waya, to address insecurity in the institution. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, disclosed this Monday when a Kaduna state government delegation, […]

Gambia seeks NUC support for PG scholarships in STEM By Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja Gambia, an Anglophone West African country,  has solicited for postgraduate scholarships in Nigerian universities for its students. The Gambian Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, Prof. Pierre Gomez, made the appeal during a courtesy visit to the acting Executive […]

  Gov Kefas (L) Mr Echono  Number of out-of-school  children in Taraba unacceptable — Gov Kefas by Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja The executive governor of Taraba State, Agbu Kefas, has described as unacceptable the rising number of school-age children who are out of  classroom, due to poverty, in his state. He said the development had […]

  New varsity curriculum takes off  September – NUC By Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja The National Universities Commission (NUC) said the implementation of the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) will commence by September 2023. At the stakeholders’ colloquium on CCMAS in Abuja Wednesday, the acting executive secretary of NUC, Chris Maiyaki, said the document […]

  Prof. Tahir OPENING ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR TAHIR MAMMAN OON, SAN HONOURABLE MINISTER OF EDUCATION, DELIVERED AT THE COLLOQUIUM OF STAKEHOLDERS’ ON THE CORE CURRICULUM AND   MINIMUM ACADEMIC STANDARDS (CCMAS) HELD ON WEDNESDAY, 23RD AUGUST, 2023 AT THE IDRIS ABDULKADIR AUDITORIUM, NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION, ABUJA.   Protocol   I would have loved to be here […]