Day: February 21, 2024

Food scarcity: Customs to distribute seized rice, others

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The Nigeria Customs Service ( (NCS) has announced its intention to distribute seized rice and other food items. It said that the measure was to reduce food security challenges in the country. The spokesman of the organisation,  Abdullahi Maiwada (CSC), in a statement in Abuja, yesterday, said that such food items would be certified fit for consumption before being distributed to the public. The statement read in part, ” In response to the critical challenges of food security and the soaring costs of essential food items in Nigeria, the Comptroller…

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300 level Nursing student commits suicide over school’s failed accreditation

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A 300-level student of a private tertiary institution in Ogun State, Havarde College of Science, Business and Management Studies, simply identified as Ajoke, has reportedly taken her life after the school allegedly failed to meet up with the accreditation requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. It was gathered that the deceased student had on Monday evening, consumed insecticide and slumped on her way to her boyfriend’s house. It was learnt that the institution’s failure to secure accreditation of the NMCN for its nursing courses frustrated the 300-level…

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Igbo won’t join hardship protest – IPOB

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The separatist Indigenous People of Biafra has urged people in the South-East not to join the festering protests by Nigerians against the current economic hardship in the country under the government of President Bola Tinubu. The separatist group warned that such protests must not take place in the southeastern states because Igbo had long lost interest in Nigeria and were only waiting for an opportunity to leave. The group made the claim in a statement on Tuesday by its spokesman, Emma Powerful. Powerful warned that anyone who organised any protest…

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