Month: March 2024

How craze for popularity drives risky pranks among desperate content creators

Extreme stunts, pranks, and skits by content creators are exposing citizens to potential health hazards, injuries and deaths, writes VICTOR AYENI In January, a Nigerian skit maker, who was simply identified as Churchill, embarked on filming a stunt as part of a video content for his fans. The Nasarawa State University student, however, wound up slamming […]

We Are Preparing To Announce New Minimum Wage – FG

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, made this known in Abuja on Thursday while flagging off a new presidential initiative for women’s empowerment. Akume, who represented President Tinubu at the event, said things would begin to change as more Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses make their way to the country. […]

Japa: Don’t waste your parents money – PCN tells students seeking admission abroad

The Registrar, Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, PCN, Pharmacist Ibrahim Babasheu has urged Nigerian students willing to go study abroad to seek advise from the body before embarking on wasteful sojourn. He disclosed that the body has record of foreign institutions with its accreditation to train Pharmacist, calling for proper orientation before accepting admission from schools […]

FG begins construction of 700 km Lagos-Calabar Coastal road

The Federal Government has announced the commencement of construction work on the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, spanning 9 States with two spurs leading to the Northern States. Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, announced this during the official handover of the first phase of the project, made up of 47.47 kilometers dual carriageway, to Hitech […]

How free tuition, meals boost enrollment in Lagos school

The quest to provide tuition-free education with two meals per day for indigent Makoko children by young January Wheduto, may be truncated over lack of space caused by the surge in enrolment of pupils in the school. Recall that about two years ago, Vanguard Learning did a report on 23-year-old Wheduto, who alongside his dedicated team, […]

Minimum wage: NLC, TUC split, want different pay in zones

LAGOS — Organised Labour was divided, yesterday, over what the new minimum wage should be. The lack of unanimity was evident at public hearings organised by the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage, TCNMW, across four of the six geo-political zones of the country. In the South-West, while leaders of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, proposed N794,000, […]

Group decries rise in sexual abuse of male child

Stakeholders in the prevention of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence have raised the alarm over an increase in the reporting of sexual abuse against male children in the country. The group also called for meticulous action in tackling what they described as a growing trend before it turned into a monster. The call was made at […]

Cyber workers turning to crime, warns study

Disgruntled cybersecurity workers, including code developers and AI experts, are offering their services on the dark web for extra cash. On top of that, other professions whose work may have been jeopardized by machine learning are also hiring themselves out to criminals. What’s more, if the problem is not addressed by better salaries and working […]

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