Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Nsima U. Ekere, has directed the immediate payment of all outstanding scholarship fees for beneficiaries of the 2016 NDDC Overseas Post Graduate Scholarship. In a meeting in Port Harcourt, Ekere expressed unhappiness that beneficiaries of the scheme were facing unfortunate hardship due to delays in remitting…
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said on Sunday that it spent $250 million dollars on health, education and improving the lives of the poor in Nigeria in 2016. Mairo Mandara, its Country Representative, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja. She said that the foundation does not estimate…
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has set up a Special Education Safety Corps, ahead of the compulsory boarding scheme of the government, which is expected to commence from next month. The governor, who announced this while handing over four refurbished Armoured Personnel Carrier vehicles to the Bayelsa State Command of the Nigerian Police Force…
The acting Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University [OAU] Professor Anthony Elujobi and the University Bursar Mrs Aderonke Akeredolu are being quizzed at the Iyaganku office of EFCC IN Ibadan, Oyo state capital. A statement from the EFCC made available to us on Tuesday said the Vice Chancellor was being quizzed in respect of an…
Osas Musa in Benin The Economic and Financial Crrime Commission [EFCC] is investigating massive corruption allegations against the Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin Professor Faraday Orumwense. Our exclusive investigation revealed that the Vice Chancellor was arrested on Wednesday at the University Ugbowo Campus, in Benin, the Edo state capital but was later released…
28 JSS Students Arrested in Asaba for Membership of ‘Future Trigger Boys’ Cult Group The Delta Police Command has arrested 28 suspected teenage cultists operating in some public secondary schools in Asaba, in Delta state capital The State Police Commissioner, CP Zanna Ibrahim, disclosed this at the weekend in Asaba. He said that the teenage…
