THE Emir of Ilorin and Chairman Kwara State Council of Chiefs, HRH Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari CFR, has been appointed as the Chancellor of the Bayero University, Kano. News Point Nigeria reports that, this is contained in a letter conveyed to the monarch and signed by the Minister for Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, dated 11th April, 2023. See letter below:
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THE results of the 80,000 candidates who participated in the mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Saturday, May 6, 2023, have been released, News Point Nigeria can confirm. News Point Nigeria had earlier reported how the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board following an emergency board meeting held in Abuja on May 1, 2023, arranged a mop-up UTME for candidates who missed the chance to sit the examinations between the period scheduled by the board owing to “no faults of their own.” The examination body in the minutes of the meeting cited three categories of candidates namely the candidates, “who were…
ON Monday, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja commenced pre-hearing into the case of some aggrieved parties challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election. This followed the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu as the winner of the keenly contested poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). His rivals – Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) rejected the result and are challenging the outcome in court. News Point Nigeria reports the names of the Justices who will be presiding over the various…
SUSPECTED drug barons have abandoned their drugs in Lagos State after a gun battle with operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). News Point Nigeria gathered that following credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives laid ambush for the traffickers last Thursday along the Eleko beach road in the Lekki area of the state. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, saying that the two trucks were flagged down by operatives of the narcotics agency but they failed to stop. He stated that the situation led to an exchange of gunfire that lasted 30 minutes by armed…
KING Charles III has been crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey at a solemn Christian coronation steeped in 1,000 years of history and tradition, but adapted to reflect 21st-century Britain. News Point Nigeria reports that, the build-up to the ceremony — the religious confirmation of Charles’s accession after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II last September — has been mostly celebratory. Queen Consort Camilla was also anointed and crowned in a simpler ceremony – although she is not asked to take an oath. She’s crowned with Queen Mary’s Crown. Thousands of people turned central London red, white and blue…
EGYPTIAN authorities have sent over 500 students back to Sudan following the failure of two of them to provide either a passport or Emergency Travel Certificate. According to a voice note of a Nigerian official obtained by our correspondent on Friday morning, students without passports or ETC had been instructed to stay back. The official added that two students without any of the documents were impatient and joined their colleagues, adding that the Egyptian authorities were angry and ordered that all the students should be taken back to Sudan to get the needed permits. The voice note said, “Our children…
OFFICERS of the Nigerian Customs Service have expressed dissatisfaction over the non-payment of their election allowances, two months after the 2023 general elections. The officers include Customs Assistants, Assistant Inspector of Customs, Inspector of Customs, Assistant Superintendent of Customs, Deputy Superintendent of Customs, Superintendent of Customs as well as Chief Superintendent Customs officers who were deployed across the country to complement the strength of the Nigeria Police Force during the elections. This newspaper reports that some personnel of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) had made similar complaints in March, even though investigations revealed that some of them were later paid…
NIGERIA has reported a total of 532 confirmed cases out of 1,686 suspected cases of meningitis, including 124 deaths, for a case-fatality ratio of seven per cent. Ther cases were reported from 81 local government areas in 22 states, including the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria from From October 1, 2022, to April 16, 2023. This is according to the epidemiology situation of the disease in Nigeria as of April 27, 2023, released by the World Health Organisation. The report showed that males account for 57 per cent of the total suspected cases. “The highest proportion of reported cases is…
THE Federal Government on Sunday gave a breakdown of the $1.2m spent on the bus fare to evacuate stranded Nigerians from war-torn Sudan to Egypt borders for onward airlifting to Nigeria. Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, the Permanent Secretary of the Humanitarian Affairs Ministry and Chair of the Situation Room on evacuation of Nigerians from Sudan, gave the explanation after a closed-door meeting of the ministry in Abuja. He explained that $30,000 was paid per bus and that 40 buses were procured for the proper evacuation of Nigerian citizens stranded in Sudan. He also explained the delays experienced by Nigerians at the Egyptian…
THE first batch of 13 buses conveying 637 evacuees have arrived safe borders at Aswan, Egypt and are undergoing necessary documentation and clearance before admission into the Egyptian territory for their eventual evacuation to Nigeria, Daily Trust has learnt. This was disclosed by Ministers of the Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama and Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk. A joint statement signed by Director Overseeing the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Amb. Janet Olisa and Permanent Secretary, Humanitarian ministry, Dr. Nasir Sani-Gwarzo said movement of the second batch of 29 buses would commence…
THE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has evacuated a total of 2,544 persons from Sudan following the outbreak of a military conflict in the country. Among them, 119 are Saudi citizens while 2,425 are from 74 countries among which 10 are from Nigeria. This was contained in a press release by the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Nigeria on Friday. It reads in part, “In continuation of the evacuation efforts being made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the directives of the Kingdom’s Leaderships, more evacuees continue to arrive at Jeddah Port from the Republic of Sudan on Thursday, bringing the…
VICE-PRESIDENT Yemi Osinbajo and others are billed to speak at the 2023 Mo Ibrahim Governance Weekend, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity Laolu Akande said in a statement on Friday. According to the statement, the Vice President leaves Abuja today for the event in Nairobi, Kenya this weekend and is expected back “soon.” The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the organiser of the annual forum, was established in 2006 with a critical focus on the importance of good governance and leadership for Africa. This year’s theme is “Global Africa.” The forum, tagged The Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW),…
THE Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NiDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has disclosed that the first set of stranded Nigerians from Sudan, have arrived in Aswan, Egypt. The NiDCOM Chair in a tweet further revealed that they arrived late which saw them meet an already closed border but are expected to leave early in the morning and proceed thereafter to the Airport. She said, “The first set has arrived at the Aswan border in Egypt but the border is already closed. They will leave early morning and then proceed to the airport.” Speaking on the development, an evacuation committee member told News…
THE Federal Government on Thursday said some universities in the country have offered to admit Nigerian students who returned from crisis-torn Sudan. “We did it with Ukraine, when they came back, there were plans to continue education for them,” the chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) Abike Dabiri-Erewa said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily monitored by News Point Nigeria. “Although the medical students among them had issues because they found out that the level of their medical school was not even as high as that of Nigeria so it was difficult to place them where they wanted. But,…
THE Federal Government, on Monday, confirmed that some Nigerian students fleeing the conflict in Sudan were denied entry into Ethiopia, but stated that the situation was being handled. The Federal Government said Nigerian authorities in Ethiopia were addressing the issue, as they had sought clearance for the fleeing students, stressing that it was, however, risky for the students to have embarked on such a journey. The Director, Special Duties, National Emergency Management Agency, who doubles as the Chairman, NEMA’s Committee for the Evacuation of the Stranded Nigerians from Sudan, Dr Onimode Bandele, said that the students’ case was receiving the required…
THE Vice President of External Affairs, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Akinteye Babatunde, says the standard of living of Nigerian students in Sudan is quickly deteriorating. “The rising panic and tension in the state are building up; these students should be evacuated to states where the battle is not too intense,” Babatunde said during Channels Television’s breakfast show, Sunrise Daily, on Monday monitored by News Point Nigeria. He said that “if we are talking about the students’ living conditions in Sudan, it is worse than ever. They can’t go out to get anything, they can’t buy food, they can’t…
THE Commissioner for Information and Voter Education of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Festus Okoye, has said the commission lacks the power to declare wanted its Resident Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa, Hudu Ari. The REC had got into trouble for usurping the powers of the Collation Officer for Adamawa State to announce the result of supplementary governorship poll and errorneously declaring the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Aishatu Dahiru, aka Binani, as the winner of the poll. INEC had since written the Inspector General of Police to investigate and prosecute the REC, while the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari…
SOME Nigerian students stranded and trapped in crisis-ridden Sudan have said they in grave danger and are being surrounded by criminals. About 4000 Nigerians are trapped as a result of fighting between forces loyal to Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Hundreds have been killed since the fight broke out between the forces of the two rival generals in Khartoum, capital of Sudan. Fauziyya Idris Safiyo, a Nigerian student who managed to flee Khartoum to the border town of Gallabat on Sudan-Ethiopian shores, said the situation…
THE Kaduna State Government has said that no fewer than 214 persons were killed because of attacks by terrorists, communal clashes and reprisals across the state from January to March 2023. This was disclosed by the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan in the first quarter 2023 security report he presented to the state Security Council. Aruwan explained that 196 males, 14 females and four minors were killed, while 746 citizens were kidnapped during the period under review. He also said that Kaduna Central Senatorial District remains top on the list with 115 deaths. Receiving the…
THE Federal Government has declared Friday, April 21 and Monday, April 24, 2023, as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid Al-Fitr celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, according to a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Dr Shuaib Belgore, obtained on Wednesday. He congratulated all Muslims for the successful completion of the holy month of Ramadan. Ogbeni Aregbesola called on all Muslims to imbibe and practise the virtues of kindness, love, tolerance, peace, self-denial, sacrifice and good neighbourliness, as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).…