The Medical Director, MD Federal Medical Centre, FMC Azare, Dr Dauda Abubakar Katagum has expressed readiness for the upgrade of the health facility to a Teaching Hospital. Katakum revealed this to newsmen while recounting his achievements within one-year of his stewardship as Medical Director of the premier tertiary health institutionContinue Reading
Following the theme that led the BRICS alliance throughout last year, Russia has said that ditching the US Dollar is 2024’s top priority. Indeed, the country is set to embrace the chairmanship of the group this year. Subsequently, it discussed the current financial reality of the global economic order asContinue Reading
HRH, Alhaji Isiaq Ajibola (Akogun of Ife-Olukotun), former Managing Director of Daily Trust Newspaper, has lost his mother. Aged 110 years, she died in her home town, Ife Olukotun, Yagba East LGA, of Kogi State, after a brief illness. The centenarian was a devoted Muslim who left behind many children,Continue Reading
By Waziri Isa Adam Even at the twilight of his administration, the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Kabiru Bala, will not allow peace to reign in the Premier University, as he is rumoured to be clandestinely working with some of his loyalists within the Muslim Forum ofContinue Reading
On the eve of the 100th day of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations has called the regime’s brutal onslaught on the besieged Palestinian territory a stain for humanity. Philippe Lazzarini, who heads the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), made the remarksContinue Reading
The Special Assistant to Borno State Governor on Media and Strategy, Mallam Isa Gusau, is dead. Sources close to the deceased Media Strategist said he passed on late Thursday evening in London, where he had been undergoing treatment for unknown ailment. Gusau’s career as a media aide begun with hisContinue Reading
The Federal Government has approved a total sum of N643.4 billion naira as the 2024 disbursement for beneficiary tertiary institutions across the country. The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, gave the breakdown of the disbursement at a strategic meeting with heads of beneficiary institutions on FridayContinue Reading
By Toyin Falola The University of Lagos is wise to have selected for its 2024 Convocation Lecture an excellent topic titled “Decolonization of Higher Educational Curriculum: Road for African Institutions.” The choice of this theme is inevitable in a world where continuous research engagements reveal that the highest form ofContinue Reading
The Minister of Interior Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Wednesday passionately pleaded with the 3 promoted ACGs to DCGs to be loyal to the country in the discharge of their responsibilities. He made the pleadings while decorating the tthree officers with new ranks of DCG, he charged them to be loyalContinue Reading