Tens of thousands of international students took to the streets across Canada this week in a wave of protests against new immigration policies introduced by the federal government. According to a report by City News Toronto on Monday, the demonstrations, which drew approximately 70,000 students occurred in major provinces including Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia. The protests came in response to a series of immigration reforms that have left many international students fearing deportation. In 2021, Canada abolished the Post-Graduation Work Permit programme, which had previously allowed international students to gain valuable work experience in the country…
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…rejects DIA’s request to detain suspects for 90 days A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the detention of an Assistant Superintendent of Police, A. A Babangida, and 19 others for 30 days for their alleged involvement in banditry, kidnapping and terrorism. Presiding judge, Justice Peter Lifu gave the order while delivering a ruling in an ex-parte application marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1146/2024, brought before the court by the Defence Intelligence Agency. The judge ordered that the police officer be detained along with the other suspects for 30 days to enable DIA operatives to carry out a thorough investigation into…
Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Wednesday, scheduled a follow-up meeting for September 6, 2024. Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this at the end of a meeting with ASUU leadership at the Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja. Following resolutions reached at the union’s national executive council meeting held at the University of Ibadan on August 19, 2024, public university lecturers threatened to go on a nationwide strike over the Federal Government’s failure to honour the 2009 renegotiated agreement. ASUU’s demands include improvement in welfare and university funding and stopping the proliferation of universities nationwide.…
Police in Abuja have arrested a Nigerian Navy personnel, Abdul Rasheed Muhammad, for the murder of Aminu, the son of former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral I. I. Ibrahim (rtd). Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Bennett Igweh, while parading the suspect on Wednesday, said the Naval officer killed Aminu and stole his car two weeks ago. Confirming however that the deceased’s stolen car had been recovered, Igweh, said, “About two weeks ago, Aminu Ibrahim, the son of Vice Admiral I. I. Ibrahim (retd), a former Chief of Naval Staff, was robbed and killed in the Maitama area of…
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday, lambasted the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government for the 18-year age limit on NECO and WAEC exams. Atiku decried the policy, saying it’s absurd and a barrier to scholarships. Federal Government had recently banned individuals below 18 from participating in the NECO and WAEC exams. Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this during his appearance on Channels Television’s ‘ Sunday Politics’ programmme. Mamman explained that the Federal Government had instructed WAEC, responsible for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, and NECO, which…
Popular prophet of the Celestial Church of Christ, Israel Ogundipe, has revealed how a bank offered him N1 billion loan. Ogundipe, who is the founder of Genesis Global Ministry, Lagos, said he was offered the loan to help him expand his ministry to reach more members globally. He revealed this while speaking on a show of popular Nigerian On-Air Personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, also known as Daddy Freeze on Tuesday. He also mentioned that the bank, which he refused to name, showed him details of churches that have collected similar loans. Ogundipe explained that from the list he was shown, some…
The International Criminal Police Organisation has arrested more than 300 people with links to one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networks, Black Axe, and other affiliated groups. In a series of covert missions, tagged, “Operation Jackal III” in 21 countries between April and July 2024, Interpol said the highly-coordinated cybercrime group was responsible for some of the world’s cyber-enabled financial fraud and many other serious crimes, BBC reports Wednesday. While the police labelled the operation as a “major blow” to the Nigerian crime network, it equally warned of its worldwide reach and technological sophistication — making the Black Axe…
The sacking of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria’s (NAHCON) chairman, Mallam Jalal Ahmad Arabi, OON, fwc, has been described as a violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Dr. Mohammed Aliyu Kumo has kicked against the removal of Arabi by the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Arabi was alleged to have misused N90 billion allocated to the commission for the 2024 Hajj operations. According to Dr. Kumo, the appointment of Arabi followed due process because the office is statutory in nature, and his removal must have followed the same pattern to have him properly nailed.…
The current Mpox outbreak in Nigeria has spread to 30 local government areas in 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with 40 confirmed cases so far. A report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) also showed that there are so far a total of 802 suspected cases in 33 states of the Federation. This situation report was released a few days before the United States government donated 10,000 doses of Mpox vaccines to Nigeria. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ACDC) had declared Mpox a Public…
Fresh facts emerged on Tuesday on the actual reasons President Bola Tinubu on Monday, replaced Ahmed Rufai, former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and Yusuf Bichi, Director General of the Department of State Security Service (DSS). The President approved their replacement on Monday, appointing Mohamed Mohammed as the new Director-General of NIA and Adeola Ajayi as DG of DSS. BusinessDay gathered from Villa sources on Tuesday, that Rufai’s and Bichi’s replacements were linked to the embarrassing seizures of Nigeria’s assets by Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited, a Chinese firm. This is just as the DSS DG was also accused of…