Author: Alade Adisa

Students at federal government technical colleges across the country will not pay any fee as they fully funded by the government, the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has reaffirmed. To this end, parents are urged to report illegal demands directly to the Ministry through: Hotline: 0803 657 6733, 0803 637 3796 Email: [email protected] “Tuition is completely free, and the government also covers approved charges including boarding, uniforms, textbooks, exercise books, prospectus, ID cards, stationery, clubs and societies, medical, vocational, utilities, security, website/e-result, Skool Media, extra lessons, and insurance, “the government said in a statement on Wednesday night. READ ALSO: FCT…

A group, Concerned Nigerians for Transparency and Justice (CNTJ), has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to make public its interim report on investigations into the alleged $4 billion fraud linked to the failed rehabilitation of Nigeria’s Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries under former NNPCL Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari. According to the group, six months is enough for the anti-graft agency to let Nigerians know what really happened. This was contained in an open letter to the EFCC chairman, signed by Comrades Obinna Francis and Adamu Musa, on behalf of a coalition of civil society…

A notorious armed robber who specializes in shooting his victims before robbing them of valuables has been arrested by the police in Lagos. The police, in a statement on Sunday, have the name of the suspect as John Samuel and he hails from Akwa Ibom State. According to a statement issued by the command, Samuel, an ex-convict from Akwa Ibom State, was tracked to his hideout in Epe and apprehended by operatives of the Command around 2:00pm on September 19, 2025. The statement also noted that Samuel had recently been released from prison after serving a six-year jail term for…

All cattle markets, popularly called Kara Markets, have been shut down in all seven local government areas of Kwara State. This is as a result of the activities of bandits and killer herdsmen that have taken over a large chunk of the Kwara South Senatorial District, killing and maiming innocent people. The decision to shut down the markets, being used as a cover-up by the killer herdsmen, was taken on Friday by all the local government chairmen to allow security agents to comb the affected areas. READ ALSO: Kwara govt, KWASU launch electric vehicle conversion initiative The chairmen, in a statement…

Selecting another occupant of the exalted Awujale of Ijebuland stool may drag longer than expected, as the leadership crisis rocking the Fusengbuwa Ruling House has been taken before an Ogun State High Court sitting in Ijebu Ode. The ruling house is next in line to produce the next Awujale. Some branches in the ruling house namely Adeberu, Olufadi and Ayora/Tunwase of Fusengbuwa ruling house, Ile Nla, Agunsebi, Ijebu Ode have dragged the Ogun State government, former National President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Otunba Abdulateef Owoyemi, founder of Eye Foundation Hospital, Dr Kunle Hassan, and two…

The attention of the State Government has been drawn to a disturbing video currently circulating on social media. The video shows a group of students, presumed to be from Excel College, Ejigbo, engaging in acts of smoking and consumption of alcohol within what appears to be a dormitory setting. Read Also: Ekiti State Government Condemns Surge in Kidnappings, Calls for Urgent Security Review The State Government views this incident with the utmost seriousness, as it goes against the core values and behavioral standards expected within the educational system of Lagos State. We wish to inform the public that the Ministry of…

Professor Wande Abimbola, former Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, has decried the poor pay of university teachers, saying their monthly take-home pay barely equals a gardener’s three-hour pay in the United States. He opined that without any significant improvement in the payment and provision of adequate facilities for teaching and learning, the Nigerian University System is heading for an imminent collapse. Abimbola, who is now based in the United States, also took a swipe at the poor salaries of lecturers, saying what a professor earns monthly is just about what a gardener earns in three…

Over 75,000 inmates in the various correctional centres across the country may go hungry as vendors supplying food items to the facilities may stop supplies to the facilities over N5.6 billion debts owed them by the federal government. This has raised the fear of starvation and malnutrition in the nation’s correctional centres. The development has made a group, the Alliance for Good Governance, AGG, call on President Bola Tinubu to urgently intervene to avert what it described as “an avoidable humanitarian and economic disaster.” READ ALSO: NCoS concedes struggle in overseeing nearly 4,000 condemned inmates In a statement signed by its…

The Federal Government, FG, on Tuesday dragged Omoyele Sowore before a Federal High Court over an alleged defamatory publication against President Bola Tinubu on social media platforms, Facebook and X, formerly Twitter. FG, in the charge it entered before the Federal High Court in Abuja through the Director of Public Prosecutions, Federal Ministry of Justice, M. B. Abubakar, maintained that Sowore, by the false accusation, committed offences contrary to and punishable under Section 24 (1) (b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Amendment Act, 2024, as well as sections 59 and 375 of the Criminal Code Act. Equally cited as…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday said over 4.4 million Nigerians have pre-registered online in the ongoing nationwide voter registration exercise. According to the latest update released by the Commission, a total of 4,445,505 Nigerians completed their online pre-registration as of Sunday, September 14, 2025 – just four weeks after the exercise commenced on August 18. READ ALSO: INEC decentralises voter registration to wards in FCT National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, who signed the statement, reaffirmed the Commission’s commitment to ensuring seamless and inclusive voter registration ahead of the 2027 general…