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Fareedah Oyolola, a secondary school student at Greensprings School in Lagos, has been named one of the world’s brightest kids by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. This honor is the consequence of her outstanding achievement in the advanced School and College Ability Test (SCAT), which every student must take in order for the […]
BEYOND the entrepreneurial aspirations of SMEs’ founders and sponsors, the role of development banks in the economy of the countries in which they operate is essential. According to UNCTAD, formal MSMEs account for 40% of GDP in emerging economies. When the informal participants are included, that amount is sure to skyrocket. In Nigeria, for example, […]
The governing All Progressives Congress APC has advised Prof. Attahiru Jega, the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, to stop criticizing her as part of his plans to further his political career. Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary of the APC’s Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC, issued a statement in response […]
The foundation of King David Umahi University of Medical Sciences in Ebonyi State has been approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC). The institution, which is located in Uburu, Ohoazara Local Government Area of the state, raises the total number of universities in the country to 197, according to NUC Executive Secretary Prof Abubakar Rasheed, […]
Gun-wielding criminals raided Uzorbest Super-market Limited, a famous supermarket in Enugu’s Onu Asata Junction, taking away items worth over N1 million. The thieves took 18 bags of 50kg foreign and local rice, 10 bags of 10kg rice, 30 boxes of noodles, and five bags of 20kg semolina, according to the Nigerian News Agency (NAN). Four […]
The PUNCH has learned that Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has begun hosting 16 of his colleagues from Southern Nigeria. The governor came to Alausa, Ikeja, for a discussion on the state of the country. The summit will take place eight weeks after the governors convened on May 11, 2021, in Asaba, Delta State’s capital. […]
Former managing directors of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund have been called by the Senate for suspected missing financial papers at the agency. On Tuesday, the former NSITF executives are scheduled to testify before the Senate Public Accounts Committee. Senator Matthew Urhoghide, the Chairman of SPAC, revealed at the latest meeting of his panel […]
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development Hajiya Sadiya Umar- Farouq said the Federal Government plans to enroll around five million students in the National Home Grown School Feeding Program (NHGSFP) by 2023. Farouq made the revelation during a stakeholder meeting in Zamfara to enumerate beneficiaries and scale up the NHGSFP. Mrs. Halima […]
INTRODUCTION The Igbo are the second largest group of people living in southern Nigeria. They are socially and culturally diverse, consisting of many subgroups. Although they live in scattered groups of villages, they all speak one language. The Igbo have no common traditional story of their origins. Historians have proposed two major theories of Igbo […]
