PAAU Secures Full Accreditation for 27 Programmes, Records Major Academic Breakthrough

PAAU Secures Full Accreditation for 27 Programmes, Records Major Academic Breakthrough

By Zainab Uzomah|Abuja Prince Abubakar Audu University (PAAU), Anyigba, has been granted Full Accreditation for 27 programmes by the National Universities Commission (NUC), comprising five postgraduate and 22 undergraduate courses. In a statement released to the press by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mrs Uredo Omale, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Salisu Ogbo Usman, said the accredited programmes span Agriculture, Arts and Humanities, Computing, Law, Management Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and […]

April 22, 2026 13

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NDLEA secures 974 convictions in three months, 11 kingpins jailed for 254 years

By Zainab Uzomah|Abuja The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has secured the conviction of 974 drug offenders nationwide in the first quarter of 2026, including 11 major traffickers sentenced to a combined 254 years in prison. According to a statement released to the press by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the convictions were recorded between January and March as part of intensified efforts to arrest, […]

April 17, 2026 15

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Nigerian Refugees Return Home After 11 Years as Operation Hadin Kai Secures Cross-Border Repatriation

By Zainab Uzomah Hundreds of Nigerian refugees who spent more than a decade in exile in Cameroon have finally returned home, following a coordinated cross-border operation led by troops of Operation Hadin Kai in Borno State. The returnees, displaced for over 11 years by insurgency, were escorted safely on 27 January from the Kirawa crossing into Pulka, Gwoza Local Government Area, under heavy security provided by Sector 1 troops, the […]

January 30, 2026 32

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FG Secures $747 Million Loan for Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway

Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway The Federal Government has secured a $747 million loan facility to fund Phase 1, Section 1 of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project, in what is being described as a milestone for infrastructure financing in Nigeria. The Ministry of Finance announced on Tuesday that the facility was arranged by Deutsche Bank, covering the stretch of the highway from Victoria Island to Eleko Village in Lagos State. The project […]

July 10, 2025 19

BUSINESS

Dangote refinery secures licence to refine 300,000bpd crude

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has said his refinery has secured a licence to refine more than 300,000 barrels of Nigerian crude per day and will begin to process gasoline soon. “We don’t want to start our refinery with foreign goods, we want to start with the Nigerian crude,” Dangote said in an interview in Riyadh on the sidelines of the Saudi-Nigeria business roundtable, according to Bloomberg. “We’re more than […]

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