PRESIDENT of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has garnered a fresh round of accolades as northern governors and monarchs describe the N15billion Aliko Dangote Food Intervention Scheme as a monumental and impactful process. The Governors of Nasarawa and Benue States joined their peers across Nigeria to commend the effort of Dangote through his Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF). Speaking weekend at the commencement of the distribution of products under the Food Intervention Programme in the State, Governor of Benue State, Hyacinth Alia, lauded Mr. Dangote, for what he described as his multifaceted philanthropic efforts, which are benefiting the poor and vulnerable populace…
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THE Association of Registrars of Nigerian Universities (ARNU) has called on the Federal Government and other concerned stakeholders to immediately reconstitute the Governing Councils of universities in the country that were earlier dissolved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. ARNU, also calls for a reconsideration of the practice of dissolving Councils before the expiration of their statutory tenures. This was contained in an 11-point communique issued and signed by ARNU Chairman, Mr. Ife Oluwole and the Public Relations Officer, Mr. Yakubu Ayuba, at the end of the Second Registrars’ Workshop and the 75th Business Meeting, held between April 24 to 26,…
A COMPETITION and Consumer Protection Tribunal (CCPT) sitting in Abuja, has restrained Multi-choice Nigeria Limited from increasing its tariffs and cost of products and services scheduled to begin on May 1. The three-member tribunal, presided over by Saratu Shafii, gave the interim order on Monday following an ex-parte motion moved by Ejiro Awaritoma, counsel for the applicant, Festus Onifade. In a ruling, the tribunal restrained multi-choice from going ahead with the impending price increase schedule to take effect from May 1, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed before it. She also directed all parties in…
RESIDENTS in Kano State have continued to lament the untold hardship they are subjected to following the fuel scarcity being experienced in all parts of the state that has made businesses and other activities very difficult. Commuters in the state said most filling stations are locked under the guise that they lack product to dispense, while black marketers are selling a litre of petrol between N2,000 and N2,500 across the metropolis. Some residents who spoke with our correspondent called on the government to intervene to bring the situation under control so as not to degenerate. They said the situation has…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Jim Ovia as the Chairman of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund. This was disclosed in a statement by the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, Friday. According to the statement, Mr. Ovia is the founder of one of Nigeria’s leading banks and a respected business leader, with a surfeit of efforts and benefaction towards nurturing and empowering young Nigerians. See full statement below: STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE PRESIDENT TINUBU APPOINTS JIM OVIA AS CHAIRMAN OF THE NIGERIAN EDUCATION LOAN FUND President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of…
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) says the issues that led to the tightness in the supply of fuel currently being experienced in some parts of the country have been resolved. The NNPC Ltd. said that the issues were as a result of logistics problems. The Chief Corporate Communications Officer, NNPC Ltd. Olufemi Soneye, made the disclosure on Thursday while reacting to the situation. Soneye reiterated that the prices of petroleum products were not changing. “The NNPC Ltd. wishes to clarify that the tightness in the supply of PMS currently being experienced in some areas across the country…
TWENTY-TWO years after the last survey on child and forced labour in Nigeria, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in their reports on Thursday, said over 24 million Nigerian children between the age of 5 to 17 are embroiled in child labour. The figure, according to the Nigeria Child and Forced Labour Survey conducted in 2022 shows that of the 24,673,485, (39.2%) of the child population is caught in the web of child labour with a nearly equal distribution among boys, 39.6% and girls 38.8%. Of this figures, 30.0% of the child workers are…
THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said attacks and abductions targeting Nigerian schoolchildren have surged since the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping in Borno State 10 years ago. UNICEF, in a report released on Monday, said only 37% of schools in 10 states have early warning systems to detect threats of such attacks. The report, titled ‘Minimum Standards for Safe Schools (MSSS) Monitoring Report’, presented by UNICEF Nigeria’s Chief of Education, Saadhna Panday-Soobrayan, noted the alarming statistics of conflict-related violence affecting children. Over the past decade, more than 1,680 children have been abducted, 180 killed in school attacks, and 60 school…
AISHA Galadima, one of the biggest political allies of the former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has been arrested in Kaduna. The arrest, a source told this newspaper, was connected to a post on her Facebook page, criticizing Governor Uba Sani. The female politician was picked up by the operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, from her residence on Sunday afternoon. The development was confirmed by one of her brothers, who said, “Aisha has just been arrested by DSS at her Tudun Wada residence in Kaduna” via a telephone conversation.
POPULAR Kannywood actress, Saratu Gidado well-known as Daso is dead. A colleague in the Kanywood film industry told this newspaper that Daso passed away Tuesday morning after a dozen-hour of illness. “Funeral venue and time will be announced soon’, the aged thespian added. Gidado was born on 17th January 1968 in Gombe. She attended school in Kano, where she joined the Kanywood movie industry. She was known for the role she always plays as an aggressive and mischievous actress who defied all odds to rise to stardom. She made her film debut in 2000 in Linzami Da Wuta, produced by…
THE President MAAUN Group of Universities, Prof. Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo, has expressed deep shock over the sudden death of proprietor of Hotel National Maradi-Niger, Ibrahim Garba popularly known as Katasse. Aged 64, Mr. Katasse died on Friday in Maradi-Niger following a brief illness. In a condolence message he personally signed and distributed to newsmen in Kano- Nigeria on Saturday, Prof. Gwarzo expressed his heartfelt condolences to the family of the deceased as well as the management and staff of the hotel. Prof. Gwarzo said the death of Katasse was a great loss to both his family and Hotel National Maradi.…
IT was an emotional event as tears broke out among the members of College of Arts and Remedial Studies, CAS, Kano, IJMB Class 2002 during the disbursement of cash support to orphans of their deceased colleagues on Thursday. The forum decided to support the families of their 14 deceased members in this holy month of Ramadan to put a smile on their faces during Sallah festivities. However, during the disbursement session, as the orphans were called upon to collect their shares, the situation went emotional as nearly everybody present, including the orphans and widows bursted into tears at the historic…
ONE of the escorts attached to an Abuja-bound train lost his life during a trip, on Thursday afternoon. A passenger, who witnessed the incident, said when the train left Kaduna at 1:30pm, there was no sign that the deceased was unwell. The witness said the late officer later complained of chest pain and sought help before he died. “A police officer, who was one of the escorts on a Abuja-Kaduna train just died. He left home in good health. But later during the journey, he complained of chest pain and asked his colleague to get him some glucose and water.”…
ONE person has been confirmed dead and many were injured in a windstorm which occurred on Tuesday night in the Agbashi Community area of the Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Several houses and public infrastructure were also destroyed, leading to the displacement of thousands of people. While the Acting Chairman of Agbashi Development Association, Anthony Oshinyeka, confirmed the death to our reporter, the State Commissioner of Humanitarian Affairs, Margaret Elayo, said the level of destruction, and number of persons and communities affected, were yet to be ascertained, adding that a team from the ministry is assessing the damage.…
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said it uncovered at least 1,665 fake A’level results during the 2023 Direct Entry registration exercise. The board also said the A’level results verification regime was characterised by corruption associated with the system. The Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed these when he received the leadership of the National Association of Nigeria Colleges of Education Students in his office on Tuesday in Abuja. He said, “Out of this figure, 397 were from Colleges of Education, 453 were university diplomas, and the rest were other A’level certificates. “It should be of grave concern if no one…
THE National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has increased the fare for this year’s pilgrimmage to Saudi Arabia by N1,918,032.91, setting a deadline of March 28, 2024. The Commission announced this in a statement by its spokesperson, Fatima Sanda Usara. It attributed the development to the forex crisis, which Nigeria has been battling for months. NAHCON had initially pegged the fare for this year’s Hajj at N4.9 million, with many stakeholders calling for the Federal Government’s intervention. However, on Sunday, the commission asked those who had paid the initial amount to add N1.9 million balance, raising the total amount to…
A 300-LEVEL student of the Department of Geography, Federal University, Gashua in Yobe State, has been killed in a fire incident at the female hostel of the school in Bade Local Government Area of the state. The Executive Secretary of the Yobe State Emergency Management Agency, Mohammed Goje, confirmed the incident to News Point Nigeria via telephone. One of the students who spoke to this newspaper on an anonymous condition said the inferno started around 1pm on Saturday, forcing the students to run for their lives; others were being evacuated to the specialist hospital in Gashua for medical attention. The…
A BILL seeking to grant five-month leave to persons who lose their spouse has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. Sponsored by Honourable Saidu Abdullahi, the bill seeks to enable the widow or widower mourn the deceased spouse and make immediate arrangements for the challenges ahead. Honourable Saidu argues that there is a need for consideration of the bill on cultural and religious grounds. Abdullahi said the bill is designed to place Nigeria among the top countries in the world in terms of workers welfare as the law exist in many countries. According to him, research findings had…
THE National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, Service Chiefs led by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa and some governors from Northern states are currently in a closed-door meeting, this newspaper gathered. Although, the agenda of the meeting was not officially disclosed, it was reliably gathered that the discussion centred on strategic plans on how to rescue the internally displaced persons, schoolchildren and Tsangaya students recently abducted by terrorists in Borno, Kaduna and Sokoto states respectively. The meeting, which started at about 2:10pm was coming on the heels of a marching order given by President Bola Tinubu to the…
THE Federal Government has postponed the launch of the Nigerian Students Loan Scheme indefinitely. Akintunde Sawyer, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), stated this in an interview with ARISE NEWS, which was monitored by News Point Nigeria. The loan which was formally slated to take off on Thursday, has been postponed again, as there are some corrections that are being made around the launch according to Sawyer. “Unfortunately, I won’t be able to commit to a specific date. We are sort of waiting to ensure that all the stakeholders are aligned to make sure that nobody…