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The Federal Government has insisted that no federal university is allowed to charge tuition fees in the country. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr David Adejo said this at a public hearing by the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on student loans in Abuja on Tuesday. Adejo said that the recent increase in charges by federal universities in ...

  The Federal Government has admonished the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi from inciting people to violence over the outcome of the Presidential elections. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the admonition in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organisations. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ...

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today accused the Federal Government of encouraging attacks against journalists and media organizations by its failure to take measures to protect journalists and punish perpetrators of such attacks whom it noted are frequently security agents or other government officials. Observing that at least seven media professionals and a media organization had fallen victim to various forms ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Anambra State House of Assembly on Tuesday approved Governor Willie Obiano’s request to access federal government’s loan facility to the 36 states of the federation, following a letter the governor wrote to the legislature seeking their consent and approval. Speaker of the state assembly Rt. Hon. Uche Victor Okafor who read the letter during plenary, put ...

The Federal Government has rejected the report of the Doris Okuwobi panel of inquiry set up to investigate the attack on unarmed EndSARS protesters at Lekki toll gate on October 20, 2020. Last year, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, set up a Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters, to investigate alleged massacre ...

The Federal Government, through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has approved N292.66 billion for disbursement to some public universities, polytechnics and colleges of education (CoEs) across the country. TETFund Executive Secretary Prof. Suleiman Bogoro said the intervention, which has Federal Government’s approval, would be spread to higher institutions in each of the six geo-political zones in the country. At ...

…says proposed media Bills draconian Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has said that the media industry is not a political opponent or enemy of the Federal Government, saying many of the political elite’s attacks on the media are habitually not envisioned to win an argument on the values, journalistic or legal; but designed to bully media organizations. Reacting to what ...

In spite of the overwhelming outcry against the plan to retrace and recover grazing routes across the country, the Federal Government is not showing signs of relenting. Saturday PUNCH findings revealed that stock routes, popularly called grazing routes, are currently being retraced and recovered by the Federal Government for herders to graze their cattle. The Federal Government said this was meant ...

The Federal Government is currently meeting with the Joint Action Committee comprising the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions. The PUNCH gathered that the meeting is holding at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Abuja. Among those present in the meeting are the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris ...

The Presidency on Tuesday waded into the controversy generated by the directive of the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, asking herdsmen to leave the state government forest reserves. Apart from ejecting the herdsmen, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu also banned under-aged grazing, night grazing, movement of cattle within the cities and highways. He also gave the herdsmen seven days ultimatum to comply ...