Author: Esther Aye

The currency rate for goods clearance has been periodically adjusted by the CBN to reflect what is available in the official window. Days have passed since the rate increased to N1515/$ and then decreased to N1,472.Thus far in January, there have been two increases in the rate. The currency rate was also modified on February 2 to N1, 356.883/$, hiked to N1, 413.62/$ on February 3 and changed again to N1, 417.635/$ on Saturday, February 10, and N1,444.56/$ on Monday, February 11. On Wednesday, February 14, the CBN altered the exchange rate to N1481.482/$1.The most recent increase, however, was on…

The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) leadership has demanded that Professor Tahir Mamman, the Minister of Education, act quickly to include their members in the Federal Government’s proposal to reimburse withheld salaries to a single union based at a university. The union had claimed that the federal government was deducting more than five months’ worth of its members’ pay. NAAT stated the announcement of the proposal to pay only one university-based union is contradictory to the information the Minister of Education presented to all the unions in the sector at the high-level stakeholders meeting held recently at the National…

Jacob Sonibare, a chemical engineering professor at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State, has bemoaned the paucity of information regarding Nigeria’s air quality situation. He stated that the country was in danger as a result of the development. Sonibare revealed this information during his debut lecture, “Air Pollution Control Lacuna In Nigeria: The Intervention of a Chemical Engineer.” He claimed that it was impossible to make a definitive comment about the state of the nation’s air quality due to the lack of data. “I have no sufficient data to make a pronouncement about the country’s present air quality status.…

One of the agreements reached by organized labor and the federal government to lessen the impact of the elimination of subsidies on Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, was the payment of wage awards to Nigerian workers. But at one point, the government stopped paying the salary award, a decision that stakeholders and activists criticized. The announcement coincided with rumors that the government had reduced the 2023 supplemental budget’s salary award amount by N100 billion.The Trade Union Congress also urged the government to pay civil servants the salary awards or face industrial action, while the Nigeria Labour Congress deemed…

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has issued a warning to Nigerian universities not to collect fees in US dollars. It states that no university functioning in the nation, whether private or public, is permitted to do so. He clarified that certain universities accused of charging fees in dollars were simply charging foreign students because the dollar is the only universally recognized form of payment acceptable to international students.Maiyaki clarified further by saying that any foreign student wishing to study in Nigeria would need to pay their tuition in US dollars. He said, “Nigerian universities are not permitted. It is actually…

Edves, Leading supplier of educational technology solutions, has announced that it will be working with the Ministry of Education of Enugu State to develop an artificial intelligence-powered digital infrastructure for the state’s educational system. The transformative collaboration, according to a statement issued by Edves, was a collection of programs designed to completely overhaul the educational system and guarantee that every student in the state received a high-quality education. The Smart & Green Schools Initiative, the initiative’s flagship project, is a notable example of this cooperative work. Using the PEARL and CASE models, Edves has been instrumental in integrating experiential curricular…

To increase access to hormonal intrauterine devices, a type of reversible contraceptive device, the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has made the decision to support a wider contraceptive approach for family planning. At the close-out and dissemination workshop on the completion of the Catalytic Opportunity Fund HIUD(Hormonal Intrauterine Device) project on Thursday in Abuja, Dr. Stella Nwosu, the director of the ministry’s Family Health Department, said this. Speaking on behalf of the ministry’s Family Planning Unit Head of Logistics and Services, Alex Ugochukwu, claimed that many families had been inspired to adopt the HIUD method of contraception by…

Chris Maiyaki, the interim executive secretary of the commission, made this statement on Thursday while speaking with reporters in Abuja.According to Maiyaki, the National Universities Commission will keep approving new colleges in order to close the nation’s admissions gap.He pointed out that although two million applicants apply to institutions annually, there are only between 500,000 and 700,000 spots available for admission. “You have to see the agony and the frustration on the faces of families who are doing everything in their power to get their kids into college every admissions session,” he remarked. We are forced to continue approving the…

Six medical facilities have been closed by the Oyo State Government on the grounds of quack medicine. The state government said that the affected facilities were sealed because of a number of offenses, including hiring unfit individuals to perform medical services and engaging in unlawful activities. The affected medical facilities are: “New Jobi Memorial Hospital, Omolara Clinic and Maternity Home, Amazing Grace Medical Clinic, Emiloju Clinic and Maternity Center, Safeway Clinic, and Emilagba Clinic and Maternity Center.” As part of the government’s efforts, the team carried out the operation to protect the “health and well-being of residents,” according to Dr.…

The planned college loan plan, according to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, will leave students perpetually in debt. Nigerians ought to be informed that the plan is a ruse to starve public colleges of money and a means of channeling public monies into private universities run by people with political clout and their allies. ASUU released a statement on Thursday following its National Executive Council meeting at Niger Delta University in Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State. The union expressed surprise at the information it had learned about the administration led by Bola Tinubu’s broken promises to address the persistent problems…