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FCTA Allocates More Funding to Rehabilitate Healthcare Facilities

NewsDeskNgOct 15, 2025October 15, 20250

Federal Capital Territory Administration, (FCTA), has increase funding for the renovation of health care centres across the territory, it was learnt on Wednesday. The Mandate Secretary, Health Services and Environment Secretariat, Dr. Adedolape Fasawe made this known in Abuja at the matriculation of students of the FCT School of Nursing,...

Boost for Arts! FG Removes Mathematics as a Required Subject

NewsDeskNgOct 15, 2025October 15, 20250

…Approves new admission guidelines The Federal Government has approved a comprehensive reform of admission entry requirements for all tertiary institutions in Nigeria, introducing a more flexible and inclusive framework to expand access to higher education. The development followed the approval of national guidelines for entry requirements into tertiary institutions in...

Sowore and Divisive Anti-Democratic Forces Must Be Stopped; Enough is Enough!

NewsDeskNgOct 15, 2025October 15, 20250

The ongoing campaign of division, blackmail, distraction, disharmony, and anarchy against the Nigerian government, especially the one being spearheaded by the so-called Omoleye Sowore, as well as by some paid characters and agents of destabilization trying to cause a breakdown of law and order in our country, is a cause...

Nigeria’s Economic Future at Stake: Experts Demand Urgent Reforms, Stronger Risk Governance

NewsDeskNgOct 15, 2025October 15, 20250

Experts have called for urgent institutional reforms, stronger data systems, and ethical governance to protect Nigeria’s economy from global disruptions and internal vulnerabilities. This appeal was made at the conclusion of the 24th Annual International Conference of the Chartered Risk Management Institute of Nigeria (CRMI). Held under the theme “Global...

Uma Ukpai, Popular Evangelist, Passes Away at 80

NewsDeskNgOct 13, 2025October 13, 20250

Renowned Nigerian evangelist and founder of the Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association (UUEA), Rev. Dr. Uma Ukpai, has passed on to glory at the age of 80. The announcement was made on his official Instagram page, @Uma_Ukpai, on Monday, confirming that the revered preacher died on October 6, 2025. In the...

FG Activates ‘No Work, No Pay’ Rule Against ASUU Strike

NewsDeskNgOct 13, 2025October 13, 20250

The Federal Government has directed vice-chancellors of federal universities to immediately implement the “no work, no pay” policy on members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) participating in the ongoing nationwide strike. The directive was contained in a circular dated October 13, 2025, and signed by the Minister of Education,...

Infidelity Allegation Spurs Army Probe into Soldier’s Murder-Suicide

NewsDeskNgOct 13, 2025October 13, 20250

Following reports that a serving soldier in Niger State, Lance Corporal Femi Akenleye, murdered his wife and killed himself over suspicion of infidelity, the Nigerian Army has ordered an investigation to unravel the true circumstances that led to the incident. According to sources, the soldier who was on duty took...

Insecurity: Frank asks Tinubu to sack Service Chiefs, commends Trump, others

NewsDeskNgOct 12, 2025October 12, 20250

A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to immediately sack the nation’s security chiefs following the unabated killings of Nigerians across the country. Frank, in a statement in Abuja, in reaction to...

DG, DSS, Ajayi and the power of attitude

NewsDeskNgOct 12, 2025October 12, 20250

The recent actions of the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) Nigeria, Mr. Oluwatosin Ajayi, in compensating individuals wrongfully arrested and detained by the agency, serve as a powerful reminder of the importance of attitude in leadership. This gesture not only showcases the DG’s commitment to upholding human...

UK-Based Independent Investigators Clear Dangote Refinery of Importing Substandard Fuel*

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2025October 11, 20250

A United Kingdom–based energy watchdog, Impact Investigators Platform (IIP), has dismissed allegations that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery imported substandard petrol into Nigeria, describing the claims as “technically inaccurate, commercially implausible, and unsupported by verifiable evidence”. In an investigative report signed on Friday by its lead investigator, Raymond Neil, the IIP...