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The Kaduna State University, KASU, has denied the widespread reports of increasing its tuition fees. Reports had it that KASU increased tuition fees from N26,000 to N150,000 for students in the Faculty of Arts, Management and Social Sciences. It was also reported that the institution increased tuition fees in the Faculty of Medicine to N300,000 as against N24,000 while non-indigenes will pay N500,000 Reacting, KASU Public Relations Officer, Adamu Nuhu Bargo, described the report as false. Bargo...

Participants at the workshop In the world over, media plays a critical role in sustenance of democracy. However, hundreds of journalists have been killed, harassed or threatened while performing their duty as watchdog of the society. A free, uncensored and unhindered press or media is essential in any society to ensure that the people’s right to information is not tampered with, but politicians and government officials often abuse blasphemy and defamation laws to gag the media. According to a...

Views: Visits 21 One of the events that shaped 2020 in the solid mineral sector is the renewed call for the amendment of the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act 2007, the Petroleum Act and related laws guiding natural resources management. This is as stakeholders alleged double standard by the federal government.    The demand for resource control was rife, as individuals and interest groups in the Niger Delta wanted an arrangement where the oil-producing states in the region would be a...

This is as stakeholders alleged double standard by the federal government.    The demand for resource control was rife, as individuals and interest groups in the Niger Delta wanted an arrangement where the oil-producing states in the region would be allowed to exploit their resources and pay taxes to the central government.    They claimed such an arrangement was most equitable, as the Federal Government seems to have given tacit approval to some states in the north to manage their mineral ...

Views: Visits 39 Scores of Nigerian journalists gathered this week in Abuja to discuss the state of press freedom in the country and the ethical codes of conduct that guide their practice at a three-day training event organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Foundation. The training, facilitated by leading media, academic, legal and civil society professionals, saw intensive discussion around laws hindering press freedom; the use of defamation as a tool of suppressing press free...