Reps Akpanke offers 16-year-old with highest JAMB score scholarship

The Member Representing Obanliku/Obudu/Bekwerra Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Peter Akpanke, has awarded a scholarship to Stephen Apebende, the 16-year-old boy who achieved an impressive score of 356 in the 2024 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the highest from Cross River State. Akpanke, who expressed pride in Stephen’s achievement, said he…

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FG to remove subsidy on poverty, exporting jobs

By leveraging on Nigeria’s natural gas resources, the Federal Government has said it will stop subsidising poverty, importing unemployment and exporting jobs Michael Oluwagbemi, Programme Director of the Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), disclosed this on Friday during a stakeholders’ engagement meeting on the Presidential Initiative on CNG held in Port Harcourt, Rivers…

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Women Affairs Minister files suit preventing Niger Assembly Speaker from overseeing marriage of 100 orphaned girls

The Minister of Women Affairs, Barrister (Mrs) Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has formally reached out to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and filed a request for a legal order to prevent Speaker Abdulmalik Sarkindaji of the Niger State Assembly from overseeing the marriage of 100 orphaned girls. The speaker has revealed his intention to provide marriage…

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