A 19-year-old student of Anchor University Lagos, Mary Enakireru has emerged the best graduating student for the 2019/2020 class at the institution’s maiden convocation. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Joseph Afolayan, announced this at a news conference on the activities lined up for the institution’s maiden convocation, on Thursday in Lagos. According to Afolayan, the convocation ceremony holds on Friday, July 9, and ends with a special convocation service on Sunday at the Deeper Life Bible Church Headquarters in Gbagada, Lagos. The VC said that Enakireru from the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Science Education, would…
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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has confirmed the death of four members of same family as a result of food poisoning. This is contained in a news release signed by Mr Babawale Afolabi, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of NSCDC, Kwara Command. According to the statement, the deceased died in the early hours of Thursday as a result of poisonous food consumption. “We received information about the death of two children of Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar of Olori village, Banni community of Kwara North; Umar Mohammed 25 and Kadir Mohammed 18. “They started vomiting around 4 am on…
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has engaged some commercial banks as agents to freeze and recover N1.8 trillion from accounts of Messrs MultiChoice Nigeria Limited (MCN) and MultiChoice Africa (MCA). This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, Director, Communications and Liaison Department of FIRS in Abuja on Thursday. The FIRS explained that the decision to appoint the banks as agents and to freeze the accounts was as a result of the groups’ continued refusal to grant FIRS access to their servers for audit. The service said it discovered that the companies persistently breached all agreements…
The commissioner for Health in Plateau state, Dr Nimkong Lar has disclosed that Cholera outbreak has recorded 953 cases and 14 deaths. He also said that 910 patients had been discharged while 29 were receiving treatment in various health facilities across the state. The commissioner disclosed the figures at a press briefing at the end of the state executive meeting on Wednesday at Government House Jos. He said the disease, which was previously recorded in Jos North local government, has spread to 13 local government areas, requiring concerted efforts to address. Lar said that the National Centre for Disease Control…
The federal government has approved an Emergency Communications Centre (ECC) for Zamfara to support the fight against insecurity in the state. Dr Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja when he received Gov. Bello Muhammad in his office. The statement was signed by his Spokesperson, Mrs Uwa Suleiman. “An Emergency Communications Centre has been approved for Zamfara State and we will ensure that it is deployed and fully operational in the next few months. “This facility will in no small measure aid in the fight against the challenges of…
The overall best graduating student of Class of 2019 at the University of Lagos, Mr Ibrahim Alimi has identified passion and hard work as the key attributes to his success in the institution. He graduated with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.98 B.Sc, Mechanical Engineering. Alimi spoke on Wednesday in Lagos, shortly after he was presented with the awards at the day two of the 51st convocation ceremony (2019). He said it had always been his belief that whatsoever was worth doing at all, was worth doing well. According to him, just like peaks and valleys, there are…
The federal government is set to implement the National Agricultural Data Management Information System (NADMIS) to strengthen data and information services in the agriculture sector. Dr Ernest Umakhihe, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday by Mrs Mabel Mbosire, a Senior Information Officer in the ministry. He disclosed this at the opening of the National Validation of Country Data Set for Third Biennial Review Exercise on the Implementation of Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme on Wednesday in Abuja. Umakhihe, represented by Mrs Karima Babaginda, Director, Federal Department of Agriculture,…
The management of the Kogi state Polytechnic, Lokoja, has expelled 27 students of the institution over examination malpractices. A statement by the spokesperson of the Polytechnic, Mrs Uredo Omale on Wednesday in Lokoja, said the expulsion was approved by the Academic Board of the institution. According to her, among the students expelled were Mohammed Iliasu Maikudi from Public Administration Department with Matric Number 2018/HND/PAD/769 and Kadiri Samson (2017/ND/OTM/034), from the Department of Office Technology and Management. She said they were expelled for hiring mercenaries to write examinations for them and that the Board was in the process of withdrawing the…
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director, Henrietta Fore, has expressed alarm at the spate of attacks against children and their abductions, including students, in Nigeria and parts of West and Central Africa. Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric stated this while briefing correspondents at the UN headquarters in New York, on Wednesday. Dujarric said Fore cited the latest report by the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict, which said that one in three child victims of grave violations had been in West and Central Africa. “She said that it is not enough to condemn these crimes and stressed that…