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PROFESOR Florence Obi of the Faculty of Education has become the first ever female vice chancellor of the University of Calabar after she was appointed to the position following the end of the screening of 12 candidates for the job.

FORMER Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) deputy governor Dr Obadiah Mailafia has warned that his life is in danger after he was invited for the third time to visit the offices of the Department of State Services (DSS) over his allegations about terrorism in the country.

HUNDREDS of Nigerian students studying abroad are now facing the prospect of having to terminate their studies after the interim management committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has refused to pay out an additional sum of $3m.

SEVERAL prominent Middle Belt leaders have withdrawn from Nigeria's pan-northern socio-cultural group the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and created the breakaway North Central Peoples Forum (NCPF) to protest the ongoing killings in their region.

JOE Aribo looks set to miss Nigeria's friendlies against Ivory Coast and Tunisia next month after Glasgow Rangers declared that he will be missing in action for between four and six weeks as a result of a nagging ankle injury.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) With oil prices in the doldrums and the Dangote refinery poised to take over as Nigeria’s main source of petrol products, this is the time to cannibalise the NNPC and convert it into an industrial concern

(2) Dangote’s Lekki refinery has effectively made the three dormant NNPC refineries needless. We have to now convert the Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries into manufacturing plants churning out finished goods

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated a national steering committee to oversee the development of the Nigeria Agenda 2050 and Medium-Term National Development Plan to succeed Vision 20:20 and the 2017-2020 Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP).

RECRUITMENT officials in Oyo State have been inundated with applicants as they seek to find staff for the recently-created Amotekun Corps as 47,000 applicants turned up to fill 2,000 positions at the screening exercise in Ibadan.

NIGERIA'S former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has stepped up her campaign to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by pledging that if she gets elected she will ensure that a coronavirus vaccine is made available to all nations.

MARKET retailers who were borrowed money by the federal government under its Trader Moni programme introduced to reduce poverty across Nigeria are finding it hard to repay the loans extended to them in 2019.