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The Federal Government, through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), has approved a N70 billion mini-grid project to provide renewable and cost-effective electricity for 18 tertiary institutions across the country. A member of the TETFund Board of Trustees, Engr. Nurudeen Adeyemi, disclosed this on Monday at a town hall meeting in Ilorin, Kwara State, with stakeholders from beneficiary institutions in the North-Central zone. Adeyemi said the intervention, captured under the 2025 cycle, was designed to tackle one of the most persistent challenges facing Nigerian tertiary institutions — unstable and expensive electricity supply. “This bold step will guarantee a stable, cost-effective,…

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has told his colleagues in the North to stop passing blame over insecurity, insisting that the unprecedented revenue now available to states gives them no excuse not to act. Speaking on Monday at the 2025 Northern Nigeria Investment and Industrialisation Summit in Abuja, Sule noted that monthly allocations to the three tiers of government had quadrupled under President Bola Tinubu’s reforms. “For the first time in our history, all tiers of government are sharing more revenue than they ever imagined,” Sule said. “Over N2.2 trillion was shared this month alone. When I became governor…

The Federal Government has announced a new policy that will bar graduates from participating in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme unless they submit copies of their academic projects, theses, or dissertations. A circular from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation stated that the directive, which takes effect from October 6, 2025, was approved by President Bola Tinubu as part of the enforcement of the National Policy for the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank (NERD). The new rule applies to graduates of universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, and foreign institutions. According to the government,…

The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja has restrained the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) from embarking on a nationwide strike against the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE. Justice Emmanuel Sublim, who delivered the interim order on Monday, ruled that the action proposed by the oil workers’ union to cut crude oil and gas supplies to the refinery could inflict severe harm on Nigeria’s fragile economy. The interim injunction followed an ex-parte application filed by the refinery’s lead counsel, George Ibrahim, SAN. Justice Sublim also barred key regulatory agencies — the Nigerian National Petroleum…

A Nigerian cryptocurrency trader, Sunusi Danjuma Ali, has drawn national attention after returning a staggering $135,000 (about ₦200 million) that mistakenly appeared in his digital wallet following a system error on trading platform, Bitunix. Ali, who is based in northern Nigeria, said he immediately knew the sudden credit was a technical glitch. Speaking on the development, he explained: “I quickly contacted the Bitunix database team in Africa as well as their official X account. They confirmed it was a glitch, and I asked them to rectify it.” His decision, at a time when millions of Nigerians are battling harsh economic…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has handed the Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum to address what it described as lingering issues affecting the nation’s universities, warning that failure to act would trigger a fresh round of strikes. Rising from its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held on Sunday, September 28, 2025, at the University of Abuja, the union lamented what it called years of neglect of the education sector, especially the university system. In a statement issued after the meeting, ASUU noted that several rallies and engagements with the government in the last three months yielded no tangible…

The management of Dangote Petroleum Refinery has challenged the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) to publish their audited accounts spanning the last ten years. This comes in the wake of PENGASSAN’s declaration of strike over alleged mass sack of workers at the refinery, an allegation the company has dismissed as “false and mischievous.” In a statement issued on Sunday and titled “Lawless PENGASSAN: Its Lies and Terror Tactics”, Dangote Refinery accused the unions of attempting to hold Nigerians to ransom with what it described…

Daud Olatunji  When Doris Akhere was told by her mother that she had been mutilated just eight days after birth, she was left speechless. The revelation came years later, but its scars—both physical and emotional—remain fresh. “I was hospitalised for three months because of bleeding,” Akhere recounted, her voice breaking. “I didn’t even know I had been cut until I was 15, during a biology class, when the diagram of female organs didn’t look like mine. That was when I realised what had been taken away from me.” Akhere is one of millions of Nigerian women whose lives have been…

The Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Dr. Mutiu Agboke, has assured Nigerians that their votes will count in the 2026 governorship and 2027 general elections. Agboke gave the assurance on Sunday while addressing worshippers during a sensitisation programme on the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Region 43 Headquarters, Osogbo. The REC urged eligible citizens to take the exercise seriously by registering and collecting their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), describing it as the only effective means of influencing leadership in the country. “The only thing you…

…Ex-minister says Nigerians now demand Jonathan’s return … PDP Confident Of Reclaiming Aso Rock After Decade In Oppositio Daud Olatunji Former Minister of Information and Orientation, Prof. Jerry Gana, has declared that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan will contest the 2027 presidential election under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Gana, who spoke with journalists shortly after the PDP congress in Minna, Niger State, at the weekend, said Nigerians were already clamouring for Jonathan’s return, insisting that he would defeat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the polls. “In 2015, former President Goodluck Jonathan said his ambition was not worth the…