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The regulatory body for the teaching profession in Nigeria, the Teachers Registration Council, Thursday claimed that over 70 per cent of private school teachers in South-west states are unqualified. South-West states include Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti. According to the registrar of the TRCN, Professor Josiah Ajiboye, the teachers are unqualified due to

The regulatory body for the teaching profession in Nigeria, the Teachers Registration Council, Thursday claimed that over 90 per cent of private school teachers in South-west states are unqualified. South-West states include Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti. According to the registrar of the TRCN, Professor Josiah Ajiboye, the teachers are unqualified due to

The Federal Government through the Ministry of Aviation has announced a massive investment of about N23.7 billion for the expansion of the Katsina airport, the establishment of the fire truck maintenance overhaul and a cargo centre. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, disclosed this at the groundbreaking ceremony of the expansion of Umar Musa Yar’adua

The two ad hoc committees set up by the House of Representatives in January 2022 to investigate the current state of petroleum refineries and the actual volume of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) being consumed daily in Nigeria have laid their reports. Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, who ordered the probes, gave the panels four

The House of Representatives, on Thursday, approved Ways and Means Advances obtained by the Federal Government from the Central Bank of Nigeria to the tune of N23,719,703,774,306.90. The House made a U-turn on the request made by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), since December 2022, for the National Assembly to approve the domestic

The Management of Max Air on Thursday announced that it would be evacuating 560 stranded Nigerians in Sudan from Egypt. The airline disclosed this in a statement via its official Instagram handle obtained by our correspondent. According to the statement, the airline will send out its Boeing 747-400 aircraft from Egypt. “We are pleased to

The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, pledged that his administration will put incentives and policies in place to make corruption unattractive for judges and other legal officials working in the judiciary. Tinubu made the promise during the inauguration of the Magistrate Courts Complex in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. This was disclosed in a statement issued

The military high command has said troops of Operation Hadin Kai killed a total of 40 terrorists and arrested 25 in the last two weeks. The command also said no fewer than 131 kidnapped Nigerians were rescued within the period under review. The Director, Defence Media Operation, Musa Danmadami, disclosed these while briefing select journalists

The Bishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, on Thursday, said Nigeria’s electoral system needs review. This is as he faulted the process where some candidates are sworn in or in the process of being sworn in despite court cases and petitions challenging their victories during the election. Onaiyekan made the call

Barely 25 days to the end of his administration, the Governor of Cross River State, Prof Ben Ayade, has appointed five Permanent Secretaries into the state public service. Their elevation from the position of directors to permanent secretaries was announced in a statement on Thursday by the Head of Service, Timothy Akwaji. According to him,

The Rivers State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Tonye Cole, has explained the reasons he failed to visit the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, during his visit to the state to inaugurate projects. Cole cited negligence and Governor Nyesom Wike’s nonchalance among others as reasons why he was absent from the inauguration. The PUNCH reported

The West African Examinations Council has said a total of 1,621,853 candidates from 20,851 secondary schools have registered for the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates. The Head of the Nigeria National Office, Mr Patrick Areghan, during a press briefing on Thursday said the WASSCE would take place between Monday, the

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has explained how he attempted to poach the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to dump the All Progressives Congress for the Peoples Democratic Party in 2018. He said he met the former Lagos State governor in 2018 at his Bourdillon home in Lagos around 2 am in his bid to convince Tinubu

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has apprehended 34 suspected internet fraudsters otherwise known as ‘Yahoo boys’ in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State. The anti-graft agency noted that the suspects were nabbed in a sting operation. EFCC while confirming the arrest in a statement on its Twitter handle on Wednesday said

Sudan has nearly twice the number of pyramids as Egypt. Pyramids are well-known ancient Egyptian monuments, but what many people don’t realise is that Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt. More than 200 pyramids were built in Sudan, as opposed to the 118 pyramids in all of Egypt, during the ancient reign. They were built

The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has promised that he will promote unity in Nigeria and be fair to all. Tinubu made the promise while inaugurating the Magistrates’ Court Complex in Port Harcourt on Thursday, built by the Governor Nyesom Wike-led administration. While commending his host for the edifice, he stated that what the governor had done

…My long-dead father still registered voters, says lawmaker …Nigerians to lose franchise for abstaining from elections  The House of Representatives has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to remove fictitious names and those of dead Nigerians from its voters register, describing it as bogus. The House made the call at the plenary on Thursday,

Veteran pop singer, Chris Mba, has died after a long battle with heart issues. The musician, who was famous in the 1980s for his jerry curl and hits like ‘Funky Situation’, ‘Baby Don’t Cry’, ‘Making My Way’ and ‘Love Everlasting’, died on Wednesday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Michael Odiong, the General Manager of

Big Brother Naija Season 7 winner, Josephine Otabor popularly known as Phyna, has said that the reality show is too toxic. The reality show star walked away with a N100 million grand prize after emerging as the winner of the ‘Level Up’ edition in 2022. Phyna disclosed this on her verified Instagram handle in a

Repentant Boko Haram fighters in Borno State may not be reintegrated into their home communities soon. According to the state’s Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Mustapha Gubio, the state government and the United Nations Development Programme are still developing the best plan for reintegrating them permanently into their home communities. For about two years

Paris Saint-Germain have ordered extra security at the club’s training ground and at the homes of Lionel Messi and Neymar after protests by fans angry over recent results at the Ligue 1 leaders, sources close to the club told AFP on Thursday. Several hundred PSG supporters gathered outside club headquarters on Wednesday evening where they

The Nigerian Exchange Group has said that the last general election and the Naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria impacted its top-line revenue negatively, resulting in a 20.5 per cent decline to ₦1.33bn in the first quarter of 2023 compared to Q1 2022 revenue which was ₦1.67bn. This was disclosed in its

The Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers has said that it will continue to work with the board and management of Nigerian Exchange Limited to build a world-class securities market in Nigeria. CIS President, Oluwole Adeosun, said this during the closing-gong ceremony to celebrate the CIS and the commemoration of the return to full physical trading at

Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Yahaya, on Wednesday, backed the happenings in his political party, the All Progressives Congress, where there have been gales of expulsion. He made this disclosure in an interview with journalists at Gombe Airport, shortly after his return to Gombe after weeks of absence on Hajj. Recall that Danjuma Goje, senator representing

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Faruk Yahaya, has donated a fully equipped Vesico Vaginal Fistula patients’ ward to the Goronyo General Hospital in Goronyo Local Government Area, Sokoto State. The hospital ward was constructed under the Chief of Army Staff’s army-civil relations scheme in the country. Inaugurating the ward at the general hospital,