The Federal Government is to engage 30,000 graduates to serve as agriculture extension workers who will provide strategic support to farmers across the country. It also announced on Monday that it had empowered 20 young Nigerian farmers with an initial take off grant of N30m, adding that the fund was pr...
Following requests by candidates to be given more time to complete the registration process for the 2020 SSCE (External), the National Examinations Council has fixed new dates for the examination. In a statement by the Head, Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani, the Council noted that t...
The Incubator Reality has created a lifeline to leapfrog and disrupt Nigerian start-ups to increase their capacity and access to funding via a novelty incubation program. A statement by ECSCORP, the Incubator’s architect, said the reality TV show, the biggest and first of its kind in the world, seeks to...
Taxi driver jailed For spending N2,000,000 erroneously paid into his account a 45-year-old driver, Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by a Kwara State High Court. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, zonal office in Ilorin had arraigned the culp...
It is possible that children will continue to learn from home until at least after Easter. The prime minister and education secretary are coming under increasing pressure to reopen schools. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson is expected to confirm this week that there will be no return to the classroo...
A Ugandan court has ordered the military and police to leave the home of opposition politician Bobi Wine. He has not left his house in the outskirts of the capital Kampala since voting in the presidential election 11 days ago, in which he was declared runner-up to President Yoweri Museveni. Monday...
