The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has refuted alleged diversion of research grants by some lecturers in Nigerian universities. This was contained in a letter sent to the Managing Director of Premium Times by Acting Director of Research and Development and Centres ...
Read More »Court declares APC NEC meeting without Ajimobi, others invalid
A Federal High Court, Lagos has declared that a meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Council (NEC) scheduled for next week Tuesday must not hold without former Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, Waziri Bulama and Paul Chukwuma. ...
Read More »Ihedioha suspends visit to Imo as PDP denies planning protests
Immediate past Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha has suspended his planned visit to the state in preparation for award congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). After weighing the options of possible breakdown of law and order by some ...
Read More »Sanwo-Olu urges corps members to embrace SAED programme
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has charged the 2020 Batch A, Stream One National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) members to take advantage of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme to become economically independent after their mandatory one-year service. ...
Read More »COVID-19 may force review of Delta 2020 budget, says Governor Okowa
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has disclosed that the state government may be forced to review the 2020 budget due to the dwindling oil revenue occasioned by the outbreak COVID-19 and its effect on global economy. Okowa, who hinted that ...
Read More »NYSC guides corps members against contracting coronavirus in camps
Opens screening points in Kaduna as Bayelsa gov Diri lauds scheme The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has disclosed that it is doing everything possible to guide and guard corps members against contracting the dreaded coronavirus disease in camps across ...
Read More »Restoring Argungu fishing festival testimony of improved security, presidency declares
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that restoration of the Argungu Agricultural and Fishing Festival after 11 years of its suspension is a manifestation of improved security in the country. He stated this in his address at the official recognition of ...
Read More »Cabal with presidential ambition behind Oshiomhole’s travails, group insists
The Niger Delta Leaders and Stakeholders Forum (NDLSF) has alleged that a cabal nursing presidential ambition in 2023 is orchestrating the crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Canvassing support for the embattled National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, ...
Read More »Senators express concern as Finance Act scales second reading
Some senators have raised concerns that details of the Bill for an Act to amend the Finance Act, 2019 were not made available to them for their input as the upper legislative chamber passed it for second reading. Senate Minority ...
Read More »Diri woos Alaibe, others as court affirms him Bayelsa governor
Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has extended an olive branch to his kinsman, Ndutimi Alaibe and other aggrieved contestants of last year’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primary, urging them to forget the past and join him in building a ...
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