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The Senate passed a bill to create the Federal University of Medicine and Medical Sciences in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Wednesday in plenary. A bill to construct the Federal College of Education in Gwoza, Borno State, was also passed by the Senate. The legislation were passed as a result of the Committee on Health and…
According to a report, the accused woman pled guilty to 28 offences, including culpable homicide, causing serious bodily harm by hunger, causing bodily damage by a heated substance, and wrongful restraint. According to a media report today, a 41-year-old Indian-origin Singaporean lady was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing her domestic assistant after…
TB Joshua is dead. Synagogue, his church, confirms. The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) has confirmed Temitope Balogun Joshua, AKA T.B Joshua’s dying words. T.B Joshua’s Ministries confirmed his death on his Facebook page, saying he died on Saturday, June 5th, 2021. God revealed the Prophet’s death to him, according to the Church. “Surely…
Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (bjp) have been early and avid exploiters of social media. But with Mr Modi’s popularity tumbling in recent months, his government is turning against these useful messengers. At the end of May, it began enforcing new rules that, among other things, make internet-based conduits of information legally liable…
Twitter, a microblogging and social networking site, has had its activities in Nigeria banned indefinitely by the Federal Government. According to a statement from his Special Assistant on Media, Segun Adeyemi, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this on Friday. However, as at the time of posting this story, our correspondent’s investigations…
Hundreds of students of the D. S. Adegbenro Polytechnic, Itori, Ogun State, on Wednesday, blocked the Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway in protest. The protest caused gridlock and left many travellers stranded for hours on the road. We gathered from our undisclosed sources that the students were protesting against the management of the institution and also blocked the…
The Standard Organization Of Nigeria has evacuated seized substandard tyres from a warehouse located in a remote area in Ogun State. The exercise, which was led by , Mallam Farouk Salim, The Director General, SON, who was represented by Mike Dakhing, Director, Inspectorate and Compliance led to the seizure of tyres stuffed in 200 containers…
Twitter has deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet in which he threatened to deal with Nigerians “misbehaving” in “the language they understand”. President Buhari had in a tweet shared on Tuesday, evoked Nigeria’s civil war experience which was fought between 1967 and 1970, and noted that most of those “misbehaving” by burning electoral offices were maybe…
The Grand Slams have promised to work to improve the player experience at major tournaments following Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open. A joint press statement from the majors on Sunday threatening Osaka with disqualification and a ban from future tournaments if she did not reverse her decision not to fulfil her media commitments fanned…
75 companies have submitted bids to be picked as concessionaires for 12 federal roads through the online portal of the federal government under the first phase of the Highway Development Management Initiative (HDMI). Head of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Mrs. Abimbola Asein, said in a statement…
