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Nigeria’s Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) credits the Tinubu administration with unprecedented speed in approving its funding, enabling advanced planning for 2026 interventions. While this financial support is acknowledged as critical to preventing institutional collapse, university leaders highlight a pressing need to expand TETFund’s mandate to address severe infrastructural deficits in security, power, and connectivity. The retreat underscores a strategic shift towards ensuring efficient implementation of these funds, recognizing that financial support alone is insufficient without tackling the broaderContinue Reading

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A leading Islamic scholar argues that government-supported Quranic education is a strategic national investment for cultivating morally upright, patriotic citizens who can counteract Nigeria’s pervasive social vices and corruption. The core proposition is that deep religious and moral instruction, as exemplified by graduates who demonstrate exceptional integrity, directly builds the character needed to combat tribalism, terrorism, and criminality. This approach positions ethical formation, not just academic learning, as essential to national security and progress. The call is for policymakers to formally enable such characterContinue Reading

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A critical gap in Nigeria’s national school security strategy is the failure of most state governments to establish local command centers, severely hampering real-time surveillance and coordinated emergency responses to threats. The federal NSSRCC reports that without these decentralized state-level hubs, proactive monitoring and interception of attackers are significantly weakened, despite the center’s own successful thwarting of dozens of past attacks. The solution hinges on states operationalizing these centers to enable seamless integration with national security agencies for immediate intervention. Ultimately, the safetyContinue Reading

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The Aliko Dangote Foundation has launched a landmark N100 billion annual scholarship initiative, projected to invest N1 trillion over a decade to expand educational access across Nigeria. Vice-President Shettima framed this as a critical national imperative, arguing that an uneducated youth population is a demographic threat, while an educated one is a global asset. The initiative serves as a powerful call to action for the private sector, positioning corporate investment in education not as charity but as essential stakeholder responsibility for national survival. ThisContinue Reading

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Share Lagos University Teaching Hospital Staff Demand Immediate Payment of Salaries By Aluta News July 29, 2025 Tensions are running high at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) as staff, particularly Locum and Hospital Interns, are protesting the non-payment of their salaries for several months. The development has sparked outrage,Continue Reading

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ShareBy Mohammed Baba Busu The Nigeria Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the establishment of Abubakar Abdulsalami University of Agriculture and Climate Action, Mokwa, Niger as the 65th state university and 277th in Nigeria. The certificate of recognition was presented to Gov. Umaru Bago by the Pro-Chancellor of Abdulkadir Kure UniversityContinue Reading