*BVP MEDIA STATION NEWS HEADLINES* Good Morning to our Cherished Readers. Monday 13 May 2019 **NIGERIA* NSITF crisis: Labour promises bitter fight with Minister. No going back on new Kano Emirates – Ganduje. I will retire from Senate in 2023, says Ekweremadu. EFCC speaks on ‘Saraki’s’ marked Lagos property – EFCC. Troops eliminate scores of terrorists in Borno. CBN debunks report of missing N500 billion. Buhari‘s inauguration still holds May 29, not June 12 —Presidency. Justice Bulkachuwa not indicted by DSS – Official. JAMB should probe UTME results now. I’m leaving Senate to become peace ambassador —David Mark. Arewa youths back El-Rufai on godfatherism comment. ‘Okorocha will be remembered in Imo for free education’. Don’t take our peace for granted, Tompolo’s kinsmen warns Chevron. Fat pensions, cars-for-life: SERAP urges Ganduje to reject Kano Assembly bill. Navy detaining 10 more Nigerians without trial, Falana writes AGF. Police arrest three cultists with fe...
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Liberia President Declares Free Tuition In All Public Universities President George Manneh Weah on Thursday declared that all undergraduates public entering universities across the country will enjoy free tuition. “Today, I’m excited to announce that I have declared the University of Liberia and all other Public Universities in Liberia tuition free for all undergraduates,” Weah wrote on Facebook without giving any further details. Reports indicate that he made the declaration before students of the University of Liberia at the Capitol Hill campus located in the capital Liberia. The announcement was met with loud cheers and applause. An undergraduate is a university student who has not yet received a degree. The west African country currently has four public universities. Aside the main University of Liberia, UL, the Booker Washington Institute, Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law and the William V.S. Tubman University, complete the list. Students had recently protested again...
EFCC Goes After Bukola Saraki, Seize His Ikoyi Houses, Mark Others In Lagos. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized some houses belonging to Senate President Bukola Saraki, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. The houses, which are located at 15a, 15b and 17 MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, are said to belong to Saraki. However, the EFCC was said to be unsure of which of the properties that actually belong to the Senate President and decided to place inscriptions and stickers on all of them. While 15a and 15b were declared by Saraki in his asset declaration form, it is believed that some other houses on the street were bought by the Senate President from the Presidential Implementation Committee for the Sales of Government Property through shell companies. His relative, who did not want to be named, told Punch correspondent that the houses were seized on Friday. He said, “The EFCC had been making inquiries into the finances and assets of Saraki for quite some time. They came t...
*BVP MEDIA STATION NEWS HEADLINES* Good Morning to our Cherished Readers. Sunday 12 May 2019 **NIGERIA* New Emirs appointed before court order, says Ganduje. Bulkachuwa: Leave Buhari out of your smear campaign, Presidency tells PDP. Nearly 900 children recruited for anti-Boko Haram military efforts in Nigeria released. Nsitf: Nlc’s siege on Ngige’s residence barbaric, lawless – Group. Leave us out of political maneuvers, DSS speaks on indicting Justice Bulkachuwa. We arrested @nairamarley, @Zlatan_Ibile for fraud, money laundering – @officialEFCC. AEDC, 3 MAP vendors begin 900,000 meter sales in Abuja, other states. Amaechi issues order to Nigerian Railway Corporation. Prices of foodstuff, tomato, fruits soar. Lawmakers resort to lamentation over insecurity. Osun governorship verdict, triumph for democracy — Assembly. Sickle Cell Foundation lauds Multichoice in fight against disorder. UNDP trains 200 youths in vocational skills. Igbo stakeholders meet in USA after 2019...
2019 UTME RESULT: Ekele Franklin From Imo State Beats All Comers, Can’t Gain Admission May 11, 2019 OJUASHA Ekele Franklin, a 15-year-old boy, has emerged the overall best candidate for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted between April 11 and 15. Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), disclosed this at a news conference while announcing the release of the 2019 UTME results on Saturday. Having chosen the University of Lagos (UNILAG) as his first choice, the Imo state candidate had a cumulative score of 347. However, there are speculations that Franklin may not be admitted on account of his age. Franklin was closely followed by Emmanuel Chidiebube, a 16-year-old boy from Abia state, who had a cumulative score of 346, while Isaac Olamide, 17, from Osun state, came third, having scored 345. According to Oloyede, 57, 579 candidates scored between 250 and 299 while a total of 2,906 scored over 300. He furth...
Kano Emirate: Moghalu reveals why Ganduje “bastardized” Emir Sanusi’s throne The presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 election, Kingsley Moghalu, has claimed that Kano state Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, bastardised the throne of Muhammadu Sanusi, Emir of Kano, for political reasons. Moghalu stated this while speaking at the Sikiru Kayode Adetona third annual professorial chair lecture, held on Friday at Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. According to him, traditional rulers ought to be selected by the citizens and not the governors. “We have seen something happened recently in Kano state, that is the emir of Kano’s throne has been balkanised and bastardised. We know why; it is to quash an independent voice, so this raises the question of the roles of traditional rulers. “The government should no longer appoint traditional rulers. Let the traditional rulers be selected by their community and recognised by the government. “In a restructured Nigeria, with a n...
15years old emerges overall best in UTME 2019. A 15years old boy, Ekene Franklin from Abia state might not be admitted into his choice university after scoring 347 to emerge overall best in UTME 2019 as released by JAMB. Followed closely by 16years old boy, Igban Emmanuel Chidiebube from Imo state who scored 346, both had applied to study in the prestigious University of Lagos. Oluwo Isaac Olamilekan aged 17 from Osun state was also acknowledged by the board as the third best in UTME 2019 after he scored 345.