•Abortion Stakeholders, including medical doctors, lawyers, gynaecologists and policymakers have demanded a more pragmatic approach including increased awareness, strong legal backing, and improved access to reproductive health services to tackle the menace of unsafe abortion among other gender-based violence. The call was made in Abeokuta yes...
Some stakeholders in the education sector have expressed concerns about the plan of the federal government to ensure full transition from paper-pencil mode to full Computer-Based Testing for all examinations conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and National Business and Technical Examin...
•Sam Anyanwu A group of senior party stakeholders under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party Concerned Stakeholders (PCS) has issued a stern warning to the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), calling for an immediate end to what it describes as a “sustained and unjustified” crisis on the secretaryship of the party. In [&hel...
•WAEC candidates The pronouncement by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, that the conduct of the Senior Secondary School Examinations by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC and the National Examinations Council, NECO, will now be computer-based as from next year, may have to be reviewed, going by opinions by critical stakehold...
•Tinubu and terrorists Amid escalating insecurity across the country, experts and stakeholders have urged the Senate to abandon its proposed two-day national security summit, calling instead for decisive action to address the crisis. They also called on President Bola Tinubu to rejig his security team citing the military’s “embarrassing helple...
A cross-section of stakeholders attending a one-day Office of the Auditor General for the Federation (OAUGF) Stakeholders’ Engagement Workshop has called on the National Assembly, particularly the Senate, to speedily pass the Audit Service Bill, which has been pending at the assembly for years. They said Nigeria is the only country in Africa t...
•JAMB Registrar Prof Is-haq Oloyede Concerns over increasing insecurity in various parts of the country have prompted parents and stakeholders in the education sector to urge the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to reconsider the early morning schedule for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). They are advo...
•Ibas and Tinubu The newly sworn-in Sole Administrator for Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-ete Ibas (rtd.), has promised to maintain law and order in the crisis-hit state. “We know the circumstances that led to why we are here and Mr President made it clear in his broadcast,” Ibas told reporters after he was sworn in […]
•Tinubu The worst fears of core educationists that the rampant impunity, which characterises and dominates other spheres of Nigerian life will soon become the norm in tertiary institutions, appear to be well founded. With what concerned stakeholders have described as recent anomalies in the appointment of Vice Chancellors of some universities,...
•Natasha The Kogi Central Concerned Stakeholders have distanced the district from the unfolding events between Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The group also regretted that Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan failed to abide by the standing rules of the senate, reports The Nation. The group in a statement by its con...

