The Bill for the Establishment of Federal Biomedical University, Oju, Benue State has successfully passed its second reading. Sponsored by Rt. Hon. David A. Ogewu, this bill aims to address Nigeria's biomedical sector deficiencies by establishing a specialized university in Oju LGA, Benue State.
The bill's unanimous adoption is a significant step forward, and it has now been referred to the House Committee on University Education for further review. Rt. Hon. Ogewu also addressed the press, highlighting the proposed university's relevance and unique features.
This development comes amidst other educational bills being passed, such as the bill to rename Benue University of Agriculture, Science, and Technology, Ihugh, which also passed its second reading.
Why not! It can be established even inside the sambisa forest, it is up to the government to do the needful by ensuring there's adequate security and good roads for the institution to function well
A 17-year-old girl from a refugee camp in Daadab has been brutally murdered and her body set on fire after refusing to be married off to a 55-year-old man.
The teenager was killed after refusing to submit to the demands of the 55-year-old man. She had been forcefully married off in an arranged marriage and was taken from her home in Daagale refugee camp.
When she arrived at the home of her husband-to-be, she was terrified. Her defiance resulted in beatings, and she eventually succumbed after enduring 27 days of abuse.
In her final moments before her death, she sent a chilling audio recording narrating how the 55-year-old man had been assaulting her since she started living with him.
On Saturday, March 22, 2025, she made a distress call to her mother, fearing for her life after enduring continuous torture since moving in with the man.
The next call her family received was from a relative informing them of her death. According to her mother, she received the call at around 2:00 a.m. informing her that her daughter had been tortured, placed on a mattress, and set on fire.
This incident has ignited outrage across social media platforms, with many Kenyans calling for justice.
realoscar84: Why taken such institute to remote area like oju? Don't get me wrong, I don't have any issue with ngede people of oju and obi but the neglect that area has suffered from Benue state is legendary. The two road that lead from Otukpo and makurdi axis to that area can be regarded as the worst in this country. I went there to do business 2 times, I ended suffering huge loss because of the terrible state of the road.
yeah the roads are bad, but I think Otukpo-Obi road is under construction now
The bill seeking the establishment of Federal Institute of Science Technology and Innovation, Obusa, in Oju LGA of Benue State, being sponsored by the senator representing Benue South Senatorial District and Senate Minority Leader, Comrade Abba Patrick Moro PhD passed First Reading on the floor of the senate on Wednesday.
The Institute, when established shall, among other things; 1. Serve as a centre of excellence for science, technology and innovation; 2. Provide courses of instruction and training in science, technology, engineering, innovation and artificial intelligence; 3. Train students in applied sciences, engineering, AI driven technology and entrepreneurship; 4. Establish AI innovation hubs and laboratories for national development and industrial growth.
Emmanuel Eche'Ofun John , Media Adviser to the Senate Minority Leader 26/03/2025
dominique: Greenland is content with being a colony of Denmark, a sane peaceful nation. They don't want to be under the administration of this violent, chaotic administration who will exploit them to their none marrows. They don't want to be a part of US, their parent country Denmark doesn't want to release the country but this deranged Trump is so power drunk that he believes someone elses' country is his birthright. Where's Elon Musk's bratty son to tell him to shut his mouth when you need him?
Usha Vance sure has a lot of Gray hair for a 38-year-old
My siblings and I decided to jokingly take a DNA test on ourselves to see if we are our father’s children
This didn’t come as a serious topic, we just decided to do it.
We are four in number, two men and two ladies. I’m the oldest (31 years old) and the youngest of us is 23 years old.
Our father turned exactly 60 February this year and our mom is 57 years old. We didn’t take the DNA test because we suspected anything, we were just doing it for fun. Unfortunately, the results that came showed that apart from our last born (the girl that’s 23), none of us belongs to our father. We did the test again in another facility and had the same result.
This isn’t the time to break our father’s heart and destroy our family so we decided to keep the results to ourselves and pretend we all are our father’s.
But we confronted our mother and she said we shouldn’t tell our father. She also said the man who’s our father is dead, he was the man she was seeing before meeting our father. She cried and begged us not to tell our dad anything.
We don’t want to hurt our dad, so we’ve kept this from him but it breaks our hearts, especially mine to see that, that man went through thick and thin to get us to where we are today. I saw him struggle so much when I was growing up. I keep wondering why my mom would do such a thing to him cuz he’s a good man
Though we are keeping this from him, I’ve just been thinking so much. I don’t know what to do. He loves us. He gave up his life and joy for us. I’ve just been crying on his behalf, and I don’t know but I just suddenly hate our mother!
Hours after agreeing to a partial ceasefire with Russia in a phone call with President Trump, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy posts images of fires and damage in the country’s central Kirovohrad region.
“Russia’s attacks on Ukraine, despite its propaganda statements, do not stop,” he writes.
Russia launched almost 200 attack drones, including Iranian-made Shahed drones, Zelenskyy said. Among the 10 people wounded, four were children, he added.
The attacks came hours after Zelenskyy agreed to move forward with the partial ceasefire with Russia that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Tuesday.
The White House also appeared to confirm that Zelenskyy and Trump discussed the prospect of the U.S. taking ownership of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in south Ukraine.
And nigeria is yet to have a female governor, not to talk of president
our women should get involved in politics and leave social media
Modified In November 2006, the then Deputy governor to Peter obi Virginia Etiaba was made the governor in Anambra state for three months when peter obi was impeached, she remains the only female governor in Nigeria
Namibia's new president was sworn in on Friday to lead a country facing high rates of unemployment, inequality and poverty.
And she will be dealing with it with the additional burden of being only Africa's second-ever directly elected female president and Namibia's first female head of state.
"If things go well then it will be seen as a good example," Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told BBC's Africa Daily podcast. "But if anything then happens, like it can happen in any administration under men, there are also those who would rather say: 'Look at women!'"
The 72-year-old won November's election with a 58% share of the vote.
Nandi-Ndaitwah has been a long-term loyalist of the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) – which has been in power since the country gained independence in 1990 after a long struggle against apartheid South Africa.
She joined Swapo, then a liberation movement resisting South Africa's white-minority rule, when she was only 14.
While the party has made changes and improved the lives of the black majority, the legacy of apartheid can still be seen in patterns of wealth and land ownership.
"Truly, land is a serious problem in this country," she told the BBC ahead of the inauguration.
"We still have some white citizens and more particularly the absent land owners who are occupying the land."
She adds that she is committed to the "willing-buyer, willing-seller" principle, which means no-one is forced to sell up.
Namibia is a geographically large country with a small population of three million.
Government statistics show that white farmers own about 70% of the country's farmland. A total of 53,773 Namibians identified as white in the 2023 census, representing 1.8% of the country's population.
Namibia is one of the world's most unequal countries, with a Gini coefficient of 59.1 in 2015, according to the World Bank, which projects poverty is expected to remain high at 17.2% in 2024.
The unemployment rate rose to 36.9% in 2023 from 33.4% in 2018, according to the country's statistics agency.
Nandi-Ndaitwah said the economy, which partly relies on mineral exports, should work more on adding value to what the country extracts from the ground rather than exporting raw materials.
She also wants Namibia to focus more on creative industries and get the education sector to adjust to new economic realities.
Nandi-Ndaitwah is only the second African woman to be directly elected as president, after Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
The continent's only other female president at the moment is Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan, who took up the role after her predecessor died in office in 2021.
Nandi-Ndaitwah wants to be judged on her merits, but she said that it was a "good thing that we as countries are realising that just as men [can do], women can also hold the position of authority".
I hate these so-called godfathers in Nigeria fomenting trouble everywhere, we don't see this nonsense in other countries, Tinubu should have suspended Wike a long time ago but he didn't because of party
Trust me, this will cause lasting enmity between the ijaw and ikwere tribes in Rivers state
If Tinubu wants to be fair, then he should also suspend FCT minister, he's responsible for all the chaos and mayhem in Rivers state with his utterances, he's an anarchist and agent provocateur
I pity the hoi polloi in Rivers state, they will bear the brunt of everything happening
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas (retd) as Administrator for Rivers State, following the suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Mrs. Ngozi Odu, and all elected members of the state’s House of Assembly.
Tinubu made this appointment during a nationwide broadcast on Tuesday amid the political and insecurity crisis in Rivers State.
In his declaration, Tinubu assured that the judicial arm of Rivers State would remain unaffected by the suspension and continue to carry out its constitutional duties, noting that Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas will not make any new laws.
The president stated: “In the meantime, I hereby nominate Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas (Rtd) as Administrator to take charge of the affairs of the state in the interest of the good people of Rivers State. For the avoidance of doubt, this declaration does not affect the judicial arm of Rivers State, which shall continue to function in accordance with their constitutional mandate.
“The Administrator will not make any new laws. He will, however, be free to formulate regulations as may be found necessary to do his job, but such regulations will need to be considered and approved by the Federal Executive Council and promulgated by the President for the state.
“This declaration has been published in the Federal Gazette, a copy of which has been forwarded to the National Assembly in accordance with the Constitution. It is my fervent hope that this inevitable intervention will help to restore peace and order in Rivers State by awakening all the contenders to the constitutional imperatives binding on all political players in Rivers State in particular and Nigeria as a whole.”
America is on full blown dictatorship and the congress is just sitting there watching, even our late general sani Abacha as brutal and terrible as he was didn't engage in such petty vendetta and reckless behavior
I don't think any president in Nigeria can do such thing now, Nigerians insulted goodluck Jonathan so much when he was president and he never attacked anybody, he lost his re-election and stepped down peacefully, Buhari was also insulted throughout his two terms and nothing happened, Tinubu is being criticized daily and I've not seen him closing any Media house down or calling people names
People hailing this lunatic will never accept 1% of what he's doing from their president in Nigeria, there was indeed a country called America
The Voice of America may not live up to its ambitious name for much longer.
Michael Abramowitz, the director of VOA, said in a Facebook post on Saturday that he was placed on leave, along with “virtually the entire staff” of 1,300. The announcement comes one day after President Trump signed an executive order to gut VOA’s parent agency.
Some of VOA’s local-language radio stations have stopped broadcasting news reports and switched over to music to fill the airtime, according to listeners.
Even top editors at VOA have been ordered to stop working, so employees expect the broadcaster’s worldwide news coverage to grind to a halt, according to half a dozen sources who spoke with CNN on the condition of anonymity.
“The Voice of America has been silenced, at least for now,” a veteran correspondent said.
Voice of America is part of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which also runs networks like Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. Those networks are also on Trump’s chopping block, as networks’ contracts with the operators have been terminated.
While Trump allies argue that the broadcasters are bloated and outdated, advocates say that by dismantling the networks, the United States is ceding the airwaves to China and other world powers, thereby harming American interests abroad.
The United States has been funding international news and current affairs coverage intended for global audiences for decades. Both Republican and Democratic leaders have supported the attempts to promote accurate news — and democratic values — in places that are saturated by foreign propaganda.
The agency’s mission statement, codified in law, is to “inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.”
But the Trump administration has different expectations. An internal memo earlier this month said the mission is to “clearly and effectively present the policies of the Trump Administration around the world.”
Trump appointed conservative media critic Brent Bozell III to run the parent agency and tapped election-denying former TV anchor Kari Lake to run VOA. Bozell’s Senate confirmation hearing is months away, with Lake serving as a “senior adviser.” Lake signed some of the emails announcing Saturday’s cuts.
Lake tweeted that the dismantling was taking effect because “the president has issued an Executive Order titled Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy.”
Trump’s order said affected agencies should stop performing all work that is not statutorily mandated, and do the rest with as few people as possible.
The order was in line with Elon Musk’s declaration in February that government-funded international broadcasters should be shut down altogether.
“Nobody listens to them anymore,” Musk posted on X. “It’s just radical left crazy people talking to themselves while torching $1B/year of US taxpayer money.”
Advocates for the outlets strongly disagree, pointing to the broadcasters as a bulwark for democracy. Those voices include Republican lawmakers.
“Gutting Radio Free Asia and other U.S. Agency for Global Media platforms counters the principles of freedom our nation was founded on and cedes leverage to the Chinese Communist Party, North Korea and other regimes,” Rep. Young Kim, a California Republican who chairs the House Select Committee on East Asia and Pacific, told Politico last week.
It is unclear what will happen next to the USAGM’s various platforms.
In addition to the employees who were put on leave Saturday, some contractors who were working for VOA were told to hand in their badges.
Other staffers went to VOA offices on Saturday to gather their belongings because they feared being locked out altogether, sources said.
But in a recent memo, before Trump signed his order, Lake made it sound like the broadcasters will continue to exist in some fashion going forward.
“It is critical we recognize our agency is funded by hardworking American taxpayers, many of whom are struggling to make ends meet,” Lake wrote earlier this month. “That means we have an added responsibility to restore their trust while working efficiently and honestly to cover this consequential moment in our nation’s history.”
Lake said she would modernize the agency “into something the American people are willing to support.”
Abramowitz said in his Facebook post that “VOA needs thoughtful reform, and we have made progress in that regard,” but sidelining the staff means that VOA won’t be able to carry out its mission.
“That mission is especially critical today,” he wrote, “when America’s adversaries, like Iran, China, and Russia, are sinking billions of dollars into creating false narratives to discredit the United States.”
The American Foreign Service Association released a statement Saturday that it “will mount a vigorous defense of USAGM and the Foreign Service professionals whose expertise is indispensable to its mission.”
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