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…
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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…
Nigerian Film Directors, CJ ‘Fiery’ Obasi and Abba Makama, have announced the international debut of an anthology film ‘Juju Stories’ at the 74th Locarno Film Festival beginning from Aug. 4 to Aug. 14. Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland, which was founded in 1949. It is one of the longest-running film festivals, also known for being a platform for art house films. The festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative and documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programme. According to the directors, ‘Juju Stories’,” a three-part anthology film…
Prof. Moji Adeyeye, the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is screening the agency for a permit to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria. Adeyeye spoke at the stakeholders interactive session organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Safety Standards and Regulations in Abuja. Represented by the Director, Planning, Research and Statistics, Mr Fori Tatama, Adeyeye said that health, safety and environment-based issues were taken seriously by NAFDAC. “The WHO is carrying out an audit of NAFDAC, which will enable the country to start…
UN has projected that as many as 163 million additional people could be pushed into extreme poverty through 2021 because of COVID-19. The agency said as many as 132 million additional people went hungry in 2020 because of the pandemic. Spokesperson for Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, Stephane Dujarric said this while briefing correspondents on the Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) High-Level Political Forum at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday. The 43 countries are expected to present their voluntary national reviews of their implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Forum which started on Tuesday will end on…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has emphasised urgent need for the world to put a Global Vaccine Plan in place to get the pandemic under control as death toll passes four million. Guterres, in a statement said that the global death toll due to COVID-19 officially passed four million late Wednesday, marking yet another “grim milestone” and underlining the urgent need for a Global Vaccine Plan. “Many of us know this loss directly and feel its pain. “We mourn mothers and fathers who gave guidance, sons and daughters who inspired us, grandmothers and grandfathers who shared wisdom, colleagues and friends who…
World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has delivered nearly 96 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to 135 countries. The organisation also said it delivered other essential health products through COVAX. WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, disclosed this to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) High-Level Political Forum at the UN Headquarters in New York. The forum which started on Tuesday will end on July 15. It is expected to discuss ways to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will also focus on the lessons, successes, shortcomings and plans to come out from the health crisis. Ghebreyesus said…
The Federal Executive Council has approved N7.2 billion for emergency repairs on 32 federal roads in Lagos state. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said this at the end of the Council meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. According to the minister, he presented three memos to the council, with two on approvals and one as a report on the meeting of the National Council on Lands, Housing and Urban Development, held in Jos, Plateau. He said: “The other two which are memoranda for approval, was to ratify the emergency…
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN has described the ideas attributed to one Kelechi Madu as outrageously ignoramus opinions that are eccentric and weird to the legal profession. It is unfortunate for someone who claims to be a lawyer of a status of a Solicitor General of a provincial State of Alberta in Canada to fault the internationally recognized manner through which Nnamdi Kanu who jumped bail was re-arrested and brought back to face trial. It was abundantly clear that bench warrant was lawfully and judiciously procured through judicial process by a competent court…
The Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, says it would launch its maiden peace and inclusive security initiative on Thursday. This is contained in a statement by the spokesperson of the Forum, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo made available to ASHENEWS on Wednesday. The event, which is scheduled to take at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja by 11am, is aimed at tackling insecurity, conflict and violence which has become a daily activity by bandits and terrorists all around the country. The statement also said that a regular interactive platform will hold as soon as the launch is over. The collaborative peace keeping initiative will provide…