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Jul

2024

Minimum Wage: Corps Members To Benefit From Current Negotiations – NYSC Announces

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Education, News Flash

Corps Members To Benefit From New Minimum Wage Negotiations – NYSC Announces The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Y.D Ahmed, has announced that serving corps members across the country will benefit from the ongoing negotiation for a new minimum wage. The DG made this announcement on Saturday during his visit to the Ogun State NYSC orientation camp in Sagamu. While addressing the 2,762 corps members undergoing the three-week orientation course, Brigadier-General Ahmed assured them that they would not be left out of the ongoing salary negotiations. He commended the corps members for their participation in…

Jul

2024

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Governor Bago’s Motivational Offers To Corp Members Posted To Niger State

Education, Economy, Empowerment, Labour, News Flash

Governor Bago's gift to Nigercorp members todaySum of N200,000 each 20 cows One trailer of rice 5 billion for construction of new campAlso promised N500,000monthly for those want to venture into Agriculture Automatic employment for medical doctors and others in health field inNiger State. A reminder that he is leading in Agriculture and Rural Development. Don't let your governors lie to you. Everything is possible if they want to do it.

Jul

2024

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Senators Ike Nwachukwu And Mao Ohuabunwa, Others Inaugurated As Chancellors Of Nigerian Universities

Abia State, Abia North, Education, FGN, News Flash

Governing Councils of Universities inaugurated July 4th, 2024 The newly constituted Nigerian Universities Governing Councils was formally inaugurated yesterday. Prominent among the Chancellors that were inaugurated are our own Distinguished Sen. Mao Arukwe Ohuabunwa KSC PHD and Senator General Ike Nwachukwu. Senator Mao has already assumed office as the chairman Governing Board & Pro Chancellor of the University of Port Harcour By this appointment, it is evident that Senator Mao and Senator General Ike Nwachukwu are imbued with capacity, integrity, abilities and sound leadership quality. They have surely proved these qualities over the years and the testimony is clearly seen…

Jul

2024

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State Government Announces N200,000 Bonus For Corps Members

Education, News Flash, Northern Nigeria

State Government Announces N200,000 Bonus For Corps Members The Niger State governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago has announced the sum of N200,000 as bonus for each of the Batch B, Stream 1 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to the state to serve. He said the bonus was to encourage the 1,600 corps members to remain and serve in the state. The governor stated this during the NYSC Batch B, Stream 1 orientation ceremony held at the temporary camp in Paikoro, on Tuesday. He revealed that any corps member who ventures into agriculture can earn N500,000 monthly and announced N5…

Jul

2024

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FCT, 27 Other States Fail To Access N36 Billion UBEC Grant

Education, Economy, FGN, News Flash

FCT, 27 Other States Fail To Access N36 Billion UBEC Grant Twenty-seven states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, have failed to access the N36.1bn education fund provided by the Universal Basic Education Commission in 2023. The N36.1bn figure is obtained from a document prepared by UBEC in March 2024, which showed how state-by-state matching grants were not accessed. The document, which was signed by UBEC’s Director of Finance and Account, Adamu Misau, said the sum of N36.1bn was not accessed by states. According to the data on the document, Jigawa, Sokoto and Zamfara states in the North-West;…

Jul

2024

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19 Million Households Benefit From FGN N4.3 Trillion Palliatives

Education, FGN, News Flash, Presidency

19 Million Households Benefits From FG N4.3 Trillion Palliatives The Federal Government may have rolled out palliatives worth N4.3tn to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal under the current administration. Parts of the palliatives have been payments of cash to no fewer than 18.7m vulnerable households, and acquisition of CNG powered buses amid the rising spate of inflation. It also included agricultural interventions and financial aids to manufacturers as well as small and medium scale enterprises in the country. This was just as the presidency said the series of palliatives were informed by President Bola Tinubu’s determination to…

Jun

2024

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JAMB Releases 2024 Supplementary UTME Results

Education, News Flash

JAMB Releases 2024 Supplementary UTME Results The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the results of candidates of the supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The supplementary UTME was conducted between Friday, June 21st and Saturday, June 22nd, 2024. JAMB’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, directed candidates on how to check their results. “To check their supplementary UTME results, candidates are to send UTMERESULT to either 55019 or 66019 through the same phone number they had used to generate their profile codes at the start of registration,” he stated. Benjamin said the supplementary examination was conducted for 28,835 candidates, who…

Jun

2024

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Strike: Details Emerged As ASUU, FG End Closed-Door Meeting

Education, FGN, News Flash

Strike: Details Emerged As ASUU, FG End Closed-door Meeting The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday ended their closed-door meeting with an agreement that all contentious issues will be amicably resolved to avert a strike. The parties also agreed to kick-start a communication process to avert the planned industrial actions by the union. The News Agency of Nigeria reports the parties had entered into a close-door meeting which began at about 4.30 pm. at the Ministry’ of Education’s headquarters in Abuja. The meeting which lasted for over two hours, had in attendance the two Ministers…

Jun

2024

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Nigerian Teacher Remanded For Flogging Pupil To Death

Crime, Education, News Flash

Nigerian Teacher Remånded For Fløgging Pupil To Dêath The primary school teacher, who flogged her eight-year old pupil to death at Landmark International School Mgbakwu, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State has been remanded in a Correctional Centre. The suspect, Mrs Faith Nwoye, was remanded after hearing of the matter in a Special Court handling women and children related matters in the State. The matter was charged to court following petition to Commissioner for Education, Prof Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, against the School’s Proprietor, Mrs Promise Iloh and Nwoye by Mr Ojiakor Okonkwo. The suspects were invited to explain what…

Jun

2024

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JAMB Fixes Date To Decide 2024 Admissions Cut-Off Mark

Education, FGN, News Flash

JAMB Fixes Date To Decide 2024 Admissions Cut-Off Marks The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will hold its policy meeting on July 18 where it will determine the cut-off marks for the 2024 admissions. In its weekly bulletin released on Monday, JAMB said the meeting will be chaired by the Minister of Education Tahir Mamman. Other stakeholders in the education sector are also billed to attend. “These critical stakeholders include Heads of regulatory agencies such as the National University Commission (NUC), National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), National Council for Colleges of Education (NCCE), Heads of tertiary institutions in…