•Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa The federal government has placed a six-year moratorium on the establishment of tertiary institutions across the country. Addressing State House correspondents after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, Minister of Education, Olatunji Alausa, said the decision was aimed at improving the qual...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has lifted the embargo on the establishment or operation of foreign universities in Nigeria. NUC Executive Secretary Professor Abdulahi Yusufu Ribadu, who disclosed this weekend at the 10th Convocation ceremony of Gregory University, Uturu, GUU, Abia State, said the decision was taken to allow foreign...
•Minister of Aviation Festus Keyamo and MMIA Lagos The federal government has called for the establishment of indigenous aircraft leasing companies in Nigeria. The announcement was made by the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, who was represented at the 2025 FAAN National Aviation Conference (FNAC) held yesterday, ...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has noted the need to establish ranches and improve the lives of rural dwellers in Kwali Area Council of the nation’s capital, Abuja. “I just left the commissioning of a great mechanization project to come here and looking at what we saw on our way here, we saw opportunities, prosperity and […]
The federal government has raised the fees for purchasing and processing of application forms for new private universities to N30 million. The amount, according to the National Universities Commission, NUC, include a N5 million for application form and a N25 million as processing fee, respectively. The NUC, in a statement to this effect today,...
•Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has warned against any attempt to establish a Sharia Court in the state. In a statement he personally signed yesterday, Abiodun noted that Sharia Courts cannot be legally constituted by individuals or groups without legal backing. He said the state government only recogn...
•Dangote Refinery The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has disclosed it secured a $1 billion loan backed by crude oil to support the coming on stream of the 650,000 barrels per day capacity Dangote Petroleum Refinery. It also revealed that the firm facilitated the $3 billion Gazelle loan as a critical intervention to help stabilise ...
•Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dismissed suit instituted by some state Attorneys General challenging the establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act. The suit, which was initially instituted by attorneys general of 16 states, sought the scrapping of the anti-graft agency. While some states withdrew...
•Nigerian Senate The upper legislative body has passed the South West Development Bill for a third reading following a report submitted by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Special Duties, Kaka Shehu Lawan. He said, “If the commission is established through presidential assent, it will like other development-driven commissions receive fu...
•Sani Gwarzo After several years of indecision, the federal government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), and other stakeholders in the polytechnic sector, yesterday agreed to the establishment of a National Polytechnics Commission to promote academic standards in the sector. The perm...
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