Ten Years After Suspension, MBBS Programme Fully Restored at Prince Abubakar Audu University

Ten Years After Suspension, MBBS Programme Fully Restored at Prince Abubakar Audu University

Ten years after its suspension, the National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted full re-accreditation for the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programme at Prince Abubakar Audu University (PAAU), Anyigba—marking a significant milestone in Kogi State’s push to revitalise medical education. The development was confirmed in a statement issued in Lokoja by the Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abdulazeez Adams, who described the approval as “a landmark achievement […]

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Saudi Arabia’s ‘Sleeping Prince’ Dies After 20 Years in Coma

Saudi Arabia’s ‘Sleeping Prince’ Dies After 20 Years in Coma Prince Al-Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal Al Saud, popularly known as Saudi Arabia’s “Sleeping Prince,” has died at the age of 36, two decades after he fell into a coma following a car accident in London. According to TheSunUK, the royal, who suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2005 while studying at a military college in the UK, passed away on […]

July 19, 2025 18

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Nigerian Navy Celebrates Two Years of Vice Admiral Ogalla’s Command

Exactly two years ago today, on June 23, 2023, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla officially took over as Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) of the Nigerian Navy, following his appointment on June 19, 2023, by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR. His tenure has since been marked by a sweeping transformation of the Navy’s operational capabilities, infrastructural development, and strategic relevance both at home and across the African continent. Under […]

June 24, 2025 49

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NAF reactivates aircraft grounded for 23 years, showcases engineering power

The Nigerian Air Force has stated that the country has the competitive and comparative advantage to maintain and restore its fleets to airworthy conditions. In a statement issued by the spokesman, Air Vice Marshal Olusola Akinboyewa, on Wednesday, its engineers and technicians have reactivated a Dornier DO-228 aircraft grounded for 23 years. According to Akinboyewa, the reactivation serves as a morale booster for the NAF engineers and technicians, showcasing their ability […]

January 8, 2025 70

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Four Lagos drug lords jailed 28 years, forfeit VGC houses

Four drug kingpins involved in the historic seizure of 2,139.55 kilograms of cocaine at an Ikorodu residential estate in 2022 have been sentenced by a Federal High Court in Lagos. The convicts —Soji Jubril Oke, 71; Wasiu Akinade, 55; Emmanuel Arinze Chukwu, 67; and Kelvin Christopher Smith, 44, a Jamaican— were arrested by the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency operatives in various locations across Lagos between Sunday night, September 18, […]

December 27, 2024 78

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Canadian lady jailed 11 years for importing 35.20kg cannabis

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a 41-year-old Canadian lady, Adrienne Munju, to 11 years imprisonment for importing 35.20 kilogrammes of Canadian Loud (Cannabis Sativa) into Nigeria. Justice Dehinde Dipeolu who handed down the verdict also gave her an option of N100m fine on the two counts preferred against her by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The judge convicted and sentenced Munju following her […]

October 24, 2024 85

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Concerns rise over teaching as over nine million fail UTME in seven years

The poor performance of students at the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination has raised concerns over system issues like unqualified teachers dotting the educational landscape, ‘LAOLU AFOLABI writes About 9.17 million out of a total of 11.9 million candidates who sat the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board between 2018 and 2024 scored below 200 pass mark. As the average failure rate in the seven years stands at […]

June 11, 2024 30

POLITICS

Nigeria will change after eight years, support Tinubu before we die – Billionaire, Arthur Eze

Billionaire, Arthur Eze, has urged Nigerians to support President Bola Tinubu while praising his inclusive approach to governance. He made the remarks in a video widely shared on social media, which showed him donating N20m to a church. Eze said, “Tinubu has no boundary. If you go to Abuja, you will see Wike, an Igbo man as a minister. Umahi is Igbo man, as minister. No boundaries. All the types […]

May 6, 2024 26

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Coastal highway: What we built in six years was demolished in six hours – Landmark

A part of Landmark Beach on Victoria Island, Lagos on Monday was demolished to give way to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, Nigeria’s biggest public infrastructure project. This is despite the outcry in some sections about the potential jobs and means of livelihood that will be lost. Meanwhile, the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, while defending the demolition noted that the move was necessary considering the landmark centre was located on […]

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