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The Nigerian Government has scrapped the award of HND certificates by Polytechnics. This decision was reached at the Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wednesday where the approval of a comprehensive reform of Nigeria’s tertiary education system was made. The award of HND will be limited to only students currently admitted for the programmes. Programmes which are not technology-based currently being run by polytechnics which are about 70 per cent will be scrapped. Polytechnics will now become campuses of the proximate universities with the Vice Chancellors of those universities appointing provosts for the polytechnics when the new rule is implemented; it is however subject to the ratification of the Universities Councils. The polytechnics will now be limited to the award of the National Diploma (ND) while those desirous of further education will be awarded the Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) by the proximate university. For a start, the nation’s two most prominent polytechn...

The Super Eagles have dropped by a point from 47 to 48 in the latest FIFA ranking for June announced on Thursday 7 th of June. In her pre-World Cup campaign, Nigeria has failed to maintain her spot in May due to losses from friendlies winning only one of their last friendly matches since March and slid down a spot in June. In the rankings, the Eagles have 618 points against the 635 points they had in May rankings and currently sit on the seventh position in Africa. Tunisia, ranked 14 th in May dropped to 21 st with 910 points with Senegal ascending the rank from their May rankings and currently sit as second in Africa. DR Congo (38), who played a 1-1 draw with the Eagles in Port Harcourt in May, are third in Africa after maintaining their place on the rankings. CHAN 2018 hosts and champions Morocco are 41 st in the world and fourth on the continent moving a spot with 686 points. Egypt climbed a spot to 45 th in the world and are now fifth in Africa while Ghana ...

The Director-General of Consumer Protection Council, Mr Babatunde Irukera has frown at the decision of telecom operators to transfer their operating cost to customers saying it is unacceptable. Mr Irukera made this known at the end of the E-payment Providers Association of Nigeria workshop in Lagos on Sunday. He stressed that the 0.005 per cent directive imposed by Central Bank of Nigeria on all electronic transactions is an operation cost for operators and should not be transferred to customers. His words, “At CPC our main focus is the customer; that they are treated with fairness and with transparency. We are unwilling to accept the decision of operators to transfer the cost of business to consumers. What they provide is airtime and broadband and if they decide to make additional things to secure consumers, it cost of business to them.” He further stressed the need to uphold people’s privacy, “All should be put in place to mitigate the risk of fraud but beyond that, the risk...

Mr Lai Mohammed, Nigeria Information and Culture Minister his address in a joint press conference at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja at the 61 st UN Tourism conference said, “Nigeria is safe and secure for its citizens and for foreign tourists and investors.” The event tagged ‘Tourism Statistics: A Catalyst for Development’ was declared open by President Muhammadu Buhari is the 61 st meeting of the United Nations World Tourism Organization Commission (UNWTO) hosting no fewer than 166 foreign delegates, 26 ministers and 322 Nigerian top officials in attendance. The Secretary General of the UNWTO, Mr Zurab Pololikashvili who arrived Nigeria on Sunday was received by Mr Lai and both addressed a joint press conference at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja on the future and scope of global tourism industry. The event according to the Minister was to highlight the improved tourism climate in the country because of the administration’s effort in steming the tide of insecurity also added that ac...