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Professor Ngomo Horace Manga, Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea.

A total of 160 students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure will be awarded First Class degrees during the institution’s 32nd convocation

One hundred and sixty students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) graduate with First Class.

Application Deadline: July 16, 2021. The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)was established in 1988 as a public not-for-profit organization devoted to the advancement of economic policy research and training in Africa. The Consortium’s mandate and strategic intent is built on the basis that sustained development in subSaharan Africa requires well-trained, locally based professional economists. AERC agitates the provision of capacity building in economic policy in Francophone and Anglo...

  Pressure is mounting on the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Birim North District Assembly in the Eastern Region, Mr Remond Damptey as some youth in the area call his academic qualification into question. According to the youth, the DCE who is also seeking a reappointment had included in his academic qualifications, a certificate purported to have been awarded him by the University of Cape Coast. Documents made available to the Ghanaian Times in Accra revealed that Mr Damptey, as part ...

OUTSIDE THE BOX BY ALEX OTTI “Now I understand why he called it Microsoft”- An African American Lady Someone told me this interesting story a few years back which I cannot confirm its veracity. It was several decades ago that Bill Gates met this young beautiful African American and immediately fell in love with her. They speak for few moments and Bill invited her to a date. The young woman was excited to meet Bill and was particularly enamored by his intelligence. She would want the date to...

BRIEFING NOTES One of the most dominant topics in the country today is the issue of adherence to the rule of law or lack of it in appointments into federal positions. Thus, the nomination of Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa as the Chairman-designate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commision (EFCC) is already generating controversy over whether or not it met the conditions stipulated in the EFCC Act 2004 with regards to the leadership of the commission. While the nominee is eminently qualified to occu...

By Deji Elumoye, Kingsley Nwezeh and Udora Orizu in Abuja There was excitement at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja and other zonal offices nationwide yesterday as President Muhammadu Buhari broke with tradition to pick an operative, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, as the next chairman of the commission. Buhari in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, sought legislative approval for the 40-year-old nominee from Kebbi State. If ...

• Seeking Senate’s confirmation rubbishes FG’s earlier position, lawyers declare Abdulrasheed Bawa will become first substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) without police training if his appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari is confirmed by the Senate. x It will be in line with one of the recommendations of the Ayo Salami panel, which investigated the commission and Ibrahim Magu last year. Femi Adesina, Buhari�...