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The reworked student loan Bill is ready for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s assent. The Senate yesterday passed the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2024. It was after considering the report of the Senate Committee on […]

The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has pledged to work with the military in its ongoing efforts to arrest persons behind the gruesome killings of 16 soldiers in Okuama community, Delta State.The Dr. Alaye Theophilus-led IYC said it had set […]

Troops of the Army have killed a “dangerous terrorist” masquerading as a police officer in Sokoto State. The troops also destroyed terror drug storage and medical facility in a sting operation on Wednesday March 20. Army spokesperson, Maj.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, announced […]

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has urged Nigerians to have faith in President Bola Tinubu’s  administration as it made efforts to address the nation’s challenges. Idris stated this on Wednesday in Kano during an “Iftar” (Breaking of […]

Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu has encouraged Nigerians to grow their food, stating that focus on agriculture is the way forward for the country. In a statement issued by her special assistant on media, Busola Kukoyi, the First Lady said […]

Niger Delta ex-agitators in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni area of Rivers state have appealed to the newly appointed administrator of the Niger Delta Amnesty Program (PAP), Dennis Otuaro, to prioritise the lingering issue of ex-agitators exclusion in the programmes and activities of the federal […]

The Senate on Wednesday at plenary resolved to name one of its committee rooms after the late Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun. Oba Balogun died on March 15, at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, at the age of  81, after […]

The Senate on Wednesday, March 20, passed the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2024. The resolution of the Senate followed its consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND that considered […]

The Abia state House of Assembly has passed into law a bill to repeal the Abia state governors and deputy governors’ pensions Law No 4 of 2001 that legalised the payment of pension and gratuity to former governors and their deputies. The […]

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has championed an Authorised Economic Operators (AEO) programme to enhance the efficiency and predictability of trade facilitation efforts in the country. The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC) Adewale Adeniyi, during a stakeholder in Abuja, said the programme would […]