The House of Representatives has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) to make available more new notes of N200, N500 and N1,000 as well as begin a gradual withdrawal of the old notes from circulation. The House also asked the CBN to direct commercial banks to issue more new notes to customers and eng...
Canada is set to reduce its intake of temporary foreign workers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said. The PM announced this in a terse statement posted on his X handle on Wednesday. According to Trudeau, companies would have to prove reasons they can’t hire Canadian workers first before they’ll be al...
The National Association of Nigerian Students warned against a hike in tuition fees by universities across the country. NANS, in a statement by its Senate President, Akinteye Babatunde, in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, condemned the recent moves by some Vice Chancellors to increase tuition fees. Bab...
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the printing of 1 million science textbooks for distribution to all public secondary schools nationwide. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, told journalists that the programme targets areas of deficiencies in critical...
The Rivers State University, Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt, said it is committed to promoting entrepreneurship and inculcating skills in its students and staff to make them self-reliant and more relevant in modern society. The institution said the move is aimed at discouraging the desire for white-co...
Undergraduates from six Nigerian universities, who made it to the final of the Energy Innovation Challenge at the fourth Annual International Week of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, wowed judges, observers and others with the various inventions they came up with to tackle the energy crisis in the count...
