The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has renewed his administration’s commitment to safeguarding the welfare, lives and properties of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members deployed to the state. El-Rufai reiterated the commitment on Thursday in Kaduna, in a speech at the opening of the orientation course for 2019 …
Read More »Suicides: NAFDAC set to ban production of smaller packs of Sniper
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has said it will soon ban the use of Paraquat and Atrazine products by farmers. The agency said it would mount evidence that the products hurt applicators and the environment. Dr Husman Bukar, the Director, Veterinary Medicine and Allied Products …
Read More »How Ghanaian varsity sacked Nigerian professor over ‘inciteful comments’
The University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, has sacked its visiting Nigerian lecturer, Prof. Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara, over comments he made in a video that has since gone viral. In a statement on its website on Wednesday, the university said, it took exceptions to the comments made by the professor in …
Read More »Police confirms Rivers varsity lecturer murdered by Armed Robbers
The Nigerian Police Force, Rivers State Command has confirmed the killing of Prof. Emmanuel Amadi by some unidentified armed robbers at his residence in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Speaking in a telephone chat with Campus Focus, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Rivers Command, Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed that the …
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