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The Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja presented operational licences to four new private polytechnics and 34 Innovation Enterprise Institutions(IEIS) and Vocational Enterprise Institutions (VEIS).   The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the new polytechnics are Nacabs Polytechnic, Akwanga, Nasarawa State; Uyo City Polytechnic, Akwa Ibom State; the Polytechnic Igbo-Owu, Kwara State and Balmor Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State.   Speaking at the licence presentation in Abuja, the Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, said that the move was in tandem with the quest by the Federal Government to build skilled manpower for the country.   He said the polytechnics, the IEIs and the VEIs were expected to focus on applied learning that would be relevant to the development needs of the country.   He added that “the Federal Government, in realisation of the need for appropriate manpower to the developmental needs of the country, opened the way for the priv...

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Four persons have been burnt to death in Okuku Market of Yala LGA, Cross River State after a successful rubbery attack on market woman.  Report says the armed robbers finished operation successfully and were in their hideout when a random house to house search by the youth was initiated and the culprits were figured out and brought to the community head for verification after which they were handed over back to the youth for further actions. It was gathered that the youth took the culprits on a jungle justice as the four robbers were set ablaze before everybody including the parents of the culprits who could not save them from the aggrieved youth.  As at the time of filling this report, the divisional Police officer in charge ‎of the community could not be reached for comments.

The Nigerian government federal secretariat is currently on fire. The complex houses major government offices in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The cause of the fire which started some minutes ago is yet to be ascertained. 

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Footballer Adebayor’s brother, Rotimi Adebayor is presently on his knees begging his brother, Emmanuel Adebayor and other family members to forget the past and let the family unite again. Rotimi who was accused of stealing at a football club his brother had helped him get into told BBC he is on his knees and wants his family to unite again.

Popular actress Mercy Aigbe Gentry who is married to hotelier, Lanre Gentry has denied marrying the hotelier as his second wife. According to her, she met him as a divorcee and there was no woman in his life, when she met him and got married to him. Her husband also took us back on a story where it was alleged that he disgraced her at a public function and even beat her up. According to him, he does not know how to argue with people talk less of beating a woman. I have never beaten my wife before or any woman, he emphasised. Read their full interview by  Punch below… How did you meet your wife? Lanre: I met her through one of my friends eight years ago. When I told her I fancied her, she waved it aside. She also told me she already had a fiancé in Malaysia, whom she loved and did not want to let down. One morning, she called to tell me she was at my office. When I got there, she told me she had agreed to marry me. I asked about her fiancé and she told me she only did a ...