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05/08/2025

FG approves the allocation of funds to 15 TETFund beneficiary institutions to support the creation of innovation hubs and entrepreneurship centres

The hubs would provide Core Labs/Workstation to cover Electronic Lab, 3D Printing Lab, Laser Technology Lab, Product Design Lab, Robotics and Coding, Artificial Intelligence, among others.

The 15 institutions benefitting are:

1. Federal University Dutse (N1 billion)
2. University of Uyo (N1 billion)
3. University of Ibadan (N1 billion)
4. Federal Polytechnic Bida (N750 million)
5. Taraba State Polytechnic, Jalingo (N750 million)
6. Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola (N750 million)
7. Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zuru (N750 million)
8. Kano State Polytechnic, Kano (N750 million)
9. Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Uwana (N750 million)
10. Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State (N750 million)
11. Bayelsa State Polytechnic, Aliebiri (N750 million)
12. Federal Polytechnic, Ede (N750 million)
13. Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo (N750 million)
14. College of Education (Technical) Kabba (N750 million)
15. Enugu State College of Education (Technical) (N750 million)

The initiative aims to facilitate and accelerate the uptake of promising research output, providing solution-driven and multidisciplinary hubs tailored towards the needs of beneficiary institutions.

04/08/2025

I'm not surprised.

04/08/2025

Nigeria my country.

BREAKING!!! BBNaija Faces Legal Threat As Lawyer Petitions NBC, Demands Ban Or Regulation Within 30 Days

Activist lawyer Maduabuchi Idam has petitioned the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), calling for an immediate ban or strict regulation of the ongoing Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) reality show. He described the programme as ob+cene, indecent, and prof@ne, and gave the commission 30 days to act or face legal action.

In the petition addressed to NBC’s Director General and titled “Urgent need to ban or regulate the content of the television programme described as ‘Big Brother Naija’ for ob+cene, indecent, and prof@ne content, pursuant to the NBC Act 1999,” Idam accused the show of airing real-time explicit and pornographic content freely on television and social media.

“The show is not only aired on national TV but its profane content is proudly shared on the verified social media handles of the host company, in total disregard for public morality,” he stated.

He questioned why NBC, which had previously banned or sanctioned music videos by Olamide, Phyno, Wizkid, and others for similar reasons, has remained silent about BBNaija’s content.

Although BBNaija is rated 18+, Idam said this rating is insufficient because the show’s content is still easily accessible to underage viewers and the general public, especially via social media.

He argued that the programme contributes nothing of educational, artistic, scientific, or literary value and blamed it for undermining public decency and morality.

Idam urged the NBC to restrict the show to highly regulated channels reserved for adult audiences and to prohibit the distribution of expl+cit clips by the host company online.

He stressed that Nigeria, already struggling with insecurity and other social vices, cannot afford the moral damage caused by such unregulated content.

“The NBC must act now to prevent further erosion of our societal values,” he warned, threatening legal action if no action is taken within 30 days.

04/08/2025

I agree with Reno on this.

You need a credit in English to be accepted into a Nigerian university, yet English is not a native Nigerian language. Is this discrimination against ourselves? All Nigerian languages, except Hausa and Lukumi Yoruba, are dying out. General Buhari was Fulani, yet could not speak Fulfulde.

Yes, English is important as a common language for all Nigerians. However, we can have a policy whereby you need at least a credit in mathematics, English, and at least one native Nigerian language as a prerequisite for gaining admission into any Nigerian university, public or private.

Otherwise, we will wake up one day and every other Nigerian language except Hausa and Lukumi Yoruba will be extinct, as is already happening in South Africa, where four languages are extinct and one is endangered because of the heavy encroachment of the English language.

It is heresy if we don't use our policy to promote our native faculty.

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. . Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

04/08/2025

A Nigerian soldier who is right in the middle of the far North fighting Bandits wrote this poem.👇🏾

MY CHILDREN MUST PLAY FOOTBALL

—A Soldier’s Lament

I joined the military with no illusions of riches.
I joined not for wealth, but for something far more fragile—hope.
Like Christ at Calvary, I chose the cross of service.
A quiet, thankless sacrifice for a country that forgets too quickly.

I serve with honour—yes.
But honour is a poor substitute for a warm bed or a child’s smile.
I have shared my sleep with reptiles in the harsh deserts of the North,
And bathed in the oil-slicked waters of the Delta.
No comfort. No applause. Just duty.

I do not live—I exist.
Each breath is a borrowed moment.
A pawn on a bloodied chessboard, waiting for the hand of death.
No warning. No glory.
Just the soft thud of a bullet, the scream of shrapnel,
A name whispered in silence and forgotten before dawn.

If fate spares me death,
It may grant me a wheelchair.
A shattered spine, a missing limb, an eye lost to a gr***de.
And if I return broken, I return to a family that must now carry me.
My wife, once full of laughter, is now full of worry.
My children are learning the weight of sorrow too soon.

And when I am gone?
What is left of me?
A folded flag. A bugle’s wail. A wife now prey to wolves in human skin.
My comrades offer “help”—but at a cost.
"Madam, let’s meet at Chodak Hotel. We can talk there."

My daughter—freshly out of school—
A job within reach, but at the gate stands my old colleague:
“Tell her to come see me… in private.”
And even if she goes, there are no guarantees.
He may steal her dignity, and still slam the door in her face.

I gave 35 years to my nation.
I retire with “honour” and nothing more.
No house. No land. Just a certificate and a prayer.
I squat in the barracks, waiting for my meagre gratuity.
When it comes, I rent a house and squeeze my children into corners.
Before long, the money dries up like harmattan wells.
The landlord tosses us out,...

04/08/2025

You and your friends should go and apply for any these paramilitary. Registration supposed to close today but it's extended to next week Monday.

Wishing you good luck!

03/08/2025

Thanks For The Rain This Morning.

02/08/2025

Benue IDP Camp records 380 pregnancies and 49 child birth in one month.
👀👀

02/08/2025

They want to use a descendants of Jezebel to bring this star down.

02/08/2025

Russia join China, Iran join with Saudi Arabia, Burkina Faso & Mali, Niger Republic. These coalitions is giving United State and Europe sleepiness night.

01/08/2025

China 🇨🇳 is preparing to invade Taiwan allegedly. Deep down, America was in Taiwan.