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Fifteen years after some faith-based schools were returned to their original owners in the South-East, their fortunes have remained unchanged. This is confirmed by the derelict infrastructure, and funding gaps, among other teething issues, which they still reel under, LAWRENCE NJOKU reports. In April this year, a lawmaker representing Igboeze South in the Enugu State…
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The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and Vice-Chancellor of Lead City University, Ibadan, Prof. Kabiru Adeyemo, have urged the Federal Government to encourage multi-stakeholder approach to finding solutions to challenges facing Nigeria’s energy sector. They made the call during the seventh Ifedayo Akintunde yearly lecture in Ibadan in collaboration with the university, which had the…
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Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have called on researchers and governments to strengthen and accelerate global research to prepare for the next pandemic. The global health bodies made the call in a statement on its website after a Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They…
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•‘Why we shunned protest in Cross River’ Despite President Bola Tinubu’s appeal for an immediate suspension of the nationwide protest, residents of Rivers State took to the streets yesterday, in continuation of the hunger protest. The protesters gathered at the Federal Government Secretariat, blocking sections of the road from Hotel Presidential Junction, making bonfires with…
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•We will support Dangote refinery, others, says NNPCL boss The Federal Government has assured investors in the Nigerian oil and gas sector of robust enabling policies that would unlock potential in the sector.It also assured of the optimisation and utilisation of domestic gas for economic prosperity, promising to increase domestic refining and support for local…
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