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The Registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Professor Segun Ajiboye on Wednesday says the council is not backing down on the December 31, 2019 deadline to flush out unqualified teachers from Nigerian classrooms. Ajiboye who disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Ibadan stated that the National Council of Education has set the deadline for all teachers in Nigerian classrooms to get registered, qualified and licensed by the TRCN. The Federal Ministry of Education had on June 7, 2019 sent a Circular to all Principals on the December 31, deadline for unqualified teachers to leave Nigerians classrooms. According to Ajiboye, Nigeria needs quality teachers to deliver quality education and not those he called ‘cheaters’. The TRCN boss hinted that the ultimate goal is to remove quackery from the teaching profession in order to ensure that only those with required competencies give Nigerian children quality education. He urged those yet to be r

The office of the Accountant General of the Federation has reacted to what its described as a 'misrepresentation of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi 11 at the 3rd National Treasury Workshop in Kano. In a press statement made available to journalists, Henshaw Ogubike, Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation said the report being circulated on some media platforms, where Emir Sanusi was quoted to have said that, Nigeria is on the verge bankruptcy doesn't represent what the highly respected Northern monarch meant. The Nation and other Newspapers online reports on Tuesday, 25th June 2019, published this story on their online media, claiming that the Emir declared that Nigeria is on the threshold of bankruptcy, following unfavorable economic policies, such as subsidizing Petroleum products and Electricity tar riffs. "The attention of the office of the Accountant General of the Federation has been drawn to a statement c

The 1994 set of the Ibadan Boys’ High School Old Boys Association has fixed 28 th  and 29 th  June for its 25 th  anniversary reunion. As part of the activities lined up for the event, the National President of Ibadan Boys High School Old Boys Association, Chief Bode Amoo will be honoured with an award of excellence in recognition of his immense contributions to the development of the school. In a chat with  The Anchor Online,  the set’s interim President, Taofik Olatunji disclosed that the plan to hold a reunion was hatched by the set’s executive committee with support from members scattered across the different continents of the world. “We feel after 25 years of passing out from the school, we should at least be able to give something back to the school that helped shape our lives in one way or the other”, he said. Olatunji also pointed out that “some of us are coming together for the first time since we left the school, so it provides ample opportunity for us to interact an

Senator Godswill Akpabio Tuesday lamented the monumental manipulations that characterised the Akwa Ibom North West senatorial district election in the February 23 presidential and National Assembly Election, saying the election that produced Chris Ekpenyong of the People's Democratic Party as the winer of the election was highly skewed against him by the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Akpabio made the allegation when speaking as evidence in chief in a petition he filed at the National Assembly Election Petitions sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, challenging the declaration of Ekpenyong as winner of the election. Akpabio said he contested against the PDP and INEC. Led in evidence by his counsel, Sunday Ameh, Akpabio said: "If  this is (election) how INEC is going to conduct election in Nigeria, it is a pity." He said in his testimony that INEC showed a great deal of bias against him by mutilating result fro

-By Rotimi Durojaye 1. The above story by Premium Times, an online News portal, represented everything but the true and factual accounts regarding a routine exercise that took place at the Ogun State Governors Office, Abeokuta in the morning of Tuesday, 28 May, 2019 as part of Handing Over processes and formalities from the then out-going to the in-coming Administration. It is rather interesting and ironic that a  routine, bona fide and patriotic disposition of the Senator Ibikunle Amosun, CON, FCA has been so savagely twisted in a premeditated effort by Premium Times and its sponsors to stand logic on its head. It is important to clarify that NOT A SINGLE AK 47 RIFLE was handed  over at the event.   2. Senator Ibikunle Amosun would have loved to ignore this report for the simple reason that it is a matter for the remit of the Police and Security agencies. But, that course of action will appear disrespectful to well-meaning Stakeholders and inquirers on the matter. Secondl