Voice of change

  An anti-graft group, the Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC), has challenged Vice Chancellors (VCs) of Nigerian universities to expose National Assembly members who demanded bribes from them before passing their 2025 budgetary proposals. The call from SHAC followed allegations that the lawmakers demanded N50 million from universities to approve their budget proposals. SHAC’s coordinator,…

The Cross River State Government has formalised an agreement with Arise IPP, a United Arab Emirates-based company, granting the firm an 80% stake in the Bakassi Deep Seaport project, a key infrastructure initiative aimed at boosting trade in West Africa. The agreement, endorsed by the State Executive Council, also includes a restructuring of Bakassi Deep…

The Small-Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON) has expressed concerns over the 36 percent drop in the proposed 2025 agriculture budget despite the 40 percent food inflation rate. The organisation noted that despite an overall increase in the national budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion, the allocation for the Federal Ministry of Agriculture…

Some commercial drivers plying the Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia-Makurdi Highway have called on the relevant authorities to allow cash payments at the Garaku Toll Plaza, rather than the electronic mode being adopted. The commercial drivers made their feelings known in separate interviews with newsmen in Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Friday. The News Agency of…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Sylvester Onoja, has warned the federal government against scrapping the 6-3-3-4 system of education in Nigeria. Onoja SAN, a Fellow of the National Teachers Institute, said the proposed scrapping of the 6-3-3-4 education system in favour of a 12-year basic education model could create more problems than it…