•UTME candidates Following widespread technical glitches during the 2025 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exams, candidates, lecturers, and educationists in Rivers State are calling for the abolition of the unified examination system. Many students expressed frustration over the disruptions and the short notice given for the res...
•Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa The Ministry of Education today clarified that the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, merely proposed the introduction of a 12-year basic education system. The ministry stated that reports of an immediate policy change on the matter were untrue. Several media outlets (excluding The Frontier) had suggested...
•Annkio Briggs Niger Delta human rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has faulted President Bola Tinubu for scrapping the Ministry of Niger Delta. The environmentalist was a guest on Channels TV today. “The Ministry of Niger Delta was created by the late (President Umaru) Yar’Adua. There was a reason for the creation. So, just removing it because ...
•Tinubu The scrapping of the Niger Delta Ministry raised mixed reactions in the polity, yesterday, with a host of Niger Delta leaders and activists kicking against the move as the federal government explained that the ministry was renamed and not scrapped. Elder Statesman and Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, said Niger Delta people would not [&...
•Tinubu and Bassey A renowned Nigerian architect and environmental activist, Dr Nnimmo Bassey, has said that scrapping of the Ministry of Niger Delta Development by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is insensitive. The founder of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, an environmental think tank and advocacy organisation, said this in a chat with T...
•Clark and Tinubu Elder statesman and Convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, has expressed his dismay over the recent decision of the Tinubu-led Federal Executive Council to scrap the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. In a phone conversation today, Clark described the move as unjustified and detrimental to the region’s develo...
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