TETFUND Discontinues Foreign Scholarship Programme For Lecturers, Gives Reasons

The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has explained why the agency suspended its foreign scholarship programme for lecturers in public tertiary institutions. Echono said the scholarship programme for lecturers was discontinued because it had become financially unsustainable, citing high foreign exchange rates and the growing number of beneficiaries who…

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Insecurity In Nigeria Is An Elite-Created Problem – Governor Mutfwang

Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has described Nigeria’s lingering insecurity as a problem created and sustained by the country’s elite. Speaking at a stakeholder meeting themed ‘Dialogue on Community Policing as a Panacea for Insecurity in Nigeria: The Case of Plateau State’, Mutfwang said the elite have contributed to deepening communal divisions and must…

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55-Year-Old Man Machetes Wife To Death

The Yobe State Police Command has confirmed that a 55-year-old man, Hamidu Ali of Koriyel village, Babangida, Tarmuwa LGA of Yobe State, has allegedly killed his 40-year-old wife. According to the State Police Command, on June 28, 2025, at about 1100hrs, the Tarmuwa Divisional Police Headquarters received a distress call from inhabitants of Koriyel Village,…

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MC Oluomo Promised Us N1.5m Each For Tinubu’s Campaign But Paid Nothing – Actor Lalude

Veteran Nollywood actor, Fatai Adekunle Adetayo, popularly known as Lalude, has accused the president of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), MC Oluomo, of failing to fulfil financial promises made to celebrities who campaigned for President Bola Tinubu and Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, during the 2023 general elections. Speaking during a recent…

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Police Nab Two For Stealing Church Generator Battery

The Nigeria Police Force, Adamawa State Police Command attached to the State Intelligence Department have arrested two suspects for theft. 20-year-old Dad Yusuf, and, 27-year-old Gibson Husseini, both residents of Upper Luggere, Jimeta, Yola North Local Government Area, were arrested for stealing 100Ah Mikano generator battery in the church. In a statement issued on Sunday…

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