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The House of Representatives is considering including Inter–University Centres among beneficiaries of funds available to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) for improved training and research at the centres.  The House passed, for second reading a bill seeking to include the centres sponsored by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu and...

The Extractive Industry Transparency Forum (EITF), a prominent civil society watchdog for efficiency in Nigeria’s oil and gas operations, has thrown its weight behind the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) over its Project One Million Barrels Per Day, describing it as a potential lifeline for Nigeria’s crude production and...

An official of the National Board of Arabic and Islamic Studies says the board’s certificate is not inferior to the West Africa Certificate Examination and the National Examination Council certificates. The special assistant to NBAIS’s registrar, Ustaz Abdul-Lateef Adekilekun, said this in an interview on Monday in Osogbo. Mr Adekilekun...

President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order to lower the prices of prescription drugs and pharmaceutical products. “Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be reduced, almost immediately, by 30 per cent to 80 per cent,” Mr Trump said in a social media post. “They will rise throughout...

UMUAHIA- The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared a lockdown on May 30, 2025, to remember Biafran heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate sacrifice for the defunct Republic of Biafra. The group stated that the lockdown is an annual memorial and remembrance day for Biafra heroes and heroines....

A man has lost his life while two others sustained varying injuries in an accident that occurred along the Trade Fair–Agbara route at Iyana Era Bus Stop, Lagos State. The accident, which involved a commercial blue Mack truck with the registration number AKD 579 XM, and a private silver Lexus...

In a move to reposition the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of 2027 general elections, the party will be swearing in new members of its Board of Trustees (BoT). This was contained in a notice on Sunday night in Abuja by the party’s Director of Publicity,  Pastor Chinwe Nnorom. ...

The family of the slain University of Uyo graduate, Miss Inioubong Umoren has refuted the allegation that their daughter’s organs were harvested by the Senate President Godswill Akpabio. The deceased family was reacting to a viral online video which Dr. Sandra Duru a.k.a Prof Mgbeke claimed that Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan...

Pope Leo XIV, whose name is Robert Prevost, stepped onto the top chair of the Catholic Church last week in a breathtaking moment.  His choice as the first American tells me he was a counterfoil to Trump, and American cleric as “provost” of peace and unity, to help save the world...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for an end to wars, suing for lasting global peace among warring countries. In his first Sunday address at the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica, Pope Leo XIV said “The immense tragedy of the Second World War ended 80 years ago… now we’re facing the...