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President Bola Tinubu has signed into law the Student Loan Bill in fulfilment of a promise he made during his campaign. Relief may have come the students’ way with the provision of easy access to higher education for interest-free loans from the Nigerian Education Loan Fund. Bawa charges students to shun corrupt practices The student loan bill, sponsored by the Speaker of the 9th House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, passed the third reading at the House two weeks ago. Chronicle NG reports that the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr. David Adejo Andrew, disclosed this to State House correspondents at…

Former Minister of Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, claimed both IBB and Obasanjo were alive to witness Bola Tinubu become President of Nigeria. Keyamo mocked former Nigerian Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB), whom he called an “evil genius” and two-time President Olusegun Obasanjo. The unravelling of El-Rufai and Keyamo by Etim Etim He also described Tinubu as one of the most faithful political “soldiers” of the late MKO Abiola, winner of the annulled 1993 presidential election. Chronicle NG reports that Keyamo stated this via his verified Twitter handle on Monday, June 12, which is celebrated as Democracy…

The mother of four children rescued after 40 days in the Amazon jungle survived the crash for four days. As she lay dying, Magdalena Mucutuy ordered her children to go and seek help. The children’s father, Manuel Ranoque, told reporters that his eldest daughter told him their mother pushed them to “get out” and rescue themselves. On Friday, the siblings, ages 13, nine, five, and one, were rescued and flown out of the bush. They were sent to a military hospital in Bogota, Colombia’s capital. “The one thing [13-year-old Lesly] has cleared up for me is that, in fact, her…

Senator Hadi Sirika, former Minister of Aviation, has accused Hon. Nnolim Nnaji who called the launch of Nigeria Air a fraud of wanting 5% ownership of the National Carrier Air. During a House of Representatives hearing, the Chairman of the House Committee on Aviation, Nnolim Nnaji, labelled Nigeria Air’s debut a fraud. He had pointed out flaws in the project and chastised the federal government for its inadequate management. Nnaji stated that after thorough consideration, his committee was displeased with Sirika’s activities. “We are equally irked by the role played by Ethiopian Airlines in this whole process. It does not…

Philadelphia motorists endured long, frustrating commutes along clogged roadways on Monday morning, a day after a tanker truck fire caused an overpass on a major highway to collapse, forcing the closure of one of the US East Coast’s busiest routes. A section of Interstate 95 was closed in both directions in Philadelphia after a truck carrying petrol caught fire on Sunday for reasons that were not yet clear. No deaths or injuries had been reported by late Sunday. Early on Monday morning, local traffic reporters said bumper-to-bumper traffic was spotted near the collapse and along alternate routes, but it appeared…

A man was charged with reckless driving on Monday after at least ten wedding guests were murdered when the bus they were riding in collided at a roundabout in Australia’s deadliest bus disaster in almost 30 years, according to police. The collision happened at 11:30 p.m. (1330 GMT) on Sunday in Greta, some 180 kilometres (112 miles) northwest of Sydney, according to police. The bus carrying 35 passengers left the road and flipped onto its side at a roundabout after a wedding in the Hunter region, a rural area famous for its vineyards and wedding spots. Police said the driver,…

Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the corpses of 128 Spanish civil war victims from General Francisco Franco’s old mausoleum outside Madrid. The exhumation is the first involving people whose bodies were moved from other parts of Spain after the 1936-1939 war and reburied without their families’ consent in a monument built by Franco in the Valley of Cuelgamuros, formerly known as the Valley of the Fallen. As Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez seeks reelection, it is expected to make Franco’s four-decade tyranny, which still divides Spanish society, a matter of heated debate. Taliban gain control of 85% of Afghanistan as…

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck off Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Sunday, the weather agency said, with no tsunami warning issued. 5.0m earthquake hit South Africa The quake registered a lower 5 on the country’s seismic intensity scale of 7 in Chitose and other parts of the southern coast of the prefecture around 6:55 p.m., the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Sapporo, Hakodate, and some other cities scored 4 on the scale. It occurred at a depth of 140 kilometres in waters off Urakawa, southern Hokkaido, and also shook a wider region in northeastern Japan.…

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook South Africa’s Johannesburg on Sunday morning, the U.S Geological Survey (USGS) said. The USGS said the quake occurred at 0038 GMT at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Some Johannesburg residents reported feeling tremors. “Earth tremor in Johannesburg. Longest and strongest I have felt! Went on for about 30 seconds, it felt like,” one resident wrote on Twitter. Security risk and crisis management consultancy Crisis24 said there were no reports of damage or casualties as a result of the earthquake. Reuters

A US citizen, a musician, and a former soldier was arrested in Russia on Saturday on suspicion of arranging a cocaine trafficking enterprise, according to a Moscow court. “On June 10, 2023, Moscow’s Khamovniki District Court took a measure of restraint against a US citizen,” according to a statement issued by Moscow’s tribunal of general jurisdiction on the Telegram messaging app. 56 suspected internet fraudsters arrested in Port Harcourt – EFCC “The former paratrooper and musician accused of running a drug dealing business involving minors will be detained until August 6, 2023.” The reporters were unable to independently verify the…