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Posthumous Presidential Clemency and Pardon for Sir Herbert Macaulay, Ogoni Nine  and other convicts  Sir Herbert Macaulay was banned from public office due to the accusation of misappropriation of funds and sentenced in 1913 by the British colonialists. US to raise import tarrif on Beijing  ASUU declares two weeks warning strike  According to the state house press  release, President Tinubu granted clemency and posthumous Pardon to the late nationalist and others as well as many  still serving their jail terms   Many that are still serving their jail term were  given presidential pardon based on the reports that the convicts had shown remorse and good conduct. He forgave some due to old age, the acquisition of new vocational skills, or enrolment in the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). President Tinubu also corrected the historic injustice committed by British colonialists against Sir Herbert Macaulay, one of Nigeria's foremost nat...

#ChinaUS US to impose additional import tariff on China as Beijing plans "countermeasures" Bizzare but real: Dead body kept in deep freezer for two decades  President Tinubu granted clemency and posthumous Pardon to Herbert Macaulay  President Donald Trump proposes Spain eviction from NATO  Trump hinted on seize fire in Gaza According to  a post on social Media, United  State President Donald Trump  gives nod to  possible additional tariff on imports from China from next month with export control on critical software.   Trump hinted this in response to Beijing's move this week to tighten its rules for exports of rare earths,.He accused China of "becoming very hostile" and trying to hold the world "captive". Trump is considering  pulling out of a meeting with China's President Xi Jinping. He later said he had not cancelled it, but that he did not know "that we're going to have it". I'm going to be there regardless," he told r...

President Trump on Gaza cease fire plan At the end of  intense Negotiations for three days in Egypt, US President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have "signed off on the first phase" of the 20-point peace plan .  Trump said "This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace," he posted on social media, without providing further details about what the first phase entails. This came after two years and two days of  the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others taken hostage. This was followed by a massive Israeli military offensive in Gaza, which has killed more than 67,000people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. This  figures are seen as accurate by the UN and other international organisations  Israel's government approved the Gaza ceasefire a...

Check how to register for  Cambridge A Level examinations  Bizzare: Dead body kept in deep freezer for two decades President Tinubu granted clemency and posthumous Pardon to Herbert Macaulay  President Trump plans additional tarrif  on Beijing imports  President Trump hinted on eviction of Spain from NATO #BizzareNews   A 75-year-old woman , Mori allegedly confessed to keeping the body of her daughter in a freezer for two decades. According to Japannews ,a police officer said Investigators on Tuesday found the body of an adult woman in a deep freezer at the home of Keiko Mori in Ibaraki Prefecture. Mori confessed  that the body was of her daughter, Makiko, who was born in 1975 and would have been 49 or 50 years old if alive, the spokesman said. "Decay was advancing," the officer  added, noting that an autopsy would be done  to determine the cause of death. The woman came to police with a  report that she had kept the body in the fre...

 Trump suggests Spain eviction from NATO  Donald Trump has  hinted on  the possibility that Spain could be removed from NATO during his discussion with  Alexander Stubb the Finnish president on Thursday, calling Spain  a chronic under-spender on defense. Maybe you should throw them out of NATO, frankly,” " why are they a laggard?” Trump said as he spoke with Stubb in the Oval Office. "Finland joined in 2023 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.No country has ever left the alliance, Spain earlier decline Trump call at the NATO summit in June to increase defense spending to 5% of each member's gross domestic product. Spain was the only  nation in the alliance that  reject the new goal. At the time, Trump suggested he planned to double tariff rates hitting products from Spain sold into the U.S. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said going by  the new proposal would implies hundreds of millions of euros  cut from  health care and e...

BRITISH PETROLEUM (BP)  PLANS $5b PROJECT IN GULF OF MEXICO  BP is on the plan of a give year project plan  aimed toward  development of an offshore drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico worth $5 billion. Tiber-Guadalupe oil and gas project to come online in 2030 .The floating platform will have the capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of oil per day, en route to BP increasing its US upstream output to more than 1 million barrels of oil  per day. This  is a major  British energy  commitment to the US  to rebuild its oil and gas system and business following a strategic shift in February away from renewables and back to its core oil and gas energy. The oil  fields are estimated to hold recoverable resources of about 350 million barrels of oil equivalent, according to the company. It will help BP cater for  her  production target of 400,000 barrels of oil  per day (boepd) from the Gulf by 2030, compared to 341,000 boepd in 20...

  INEC Chairman: Mahmud Yaqub steps down  The national chairman of Independence National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Mahmud Yaqub has stepped down  from the commission. He was appointed on 2015 by the Late former President Muhammad Buhari and has served two terms  Meanwhile, he handed over to one of the most senior national commissioners Professor ( Mrs )  May Agbamuche-Mbu,  Professor Yakubu announced information on Tuesday, 7 September during the  meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners at the  INEC headquarters in Abuja.

 SSANU and NASU treathen strike  The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) in Nigeria have declared a one-day nationwide protest scheduled for Thursday, October 9, 2025, in response to what they describe as the insensitive of the Government and continued failure to fulfill  agreements.  The unions also issued a two-week strike threat, warning that further delays in addressing their demands could lead to a total closure and shutdown of non-academic activities across public universities in Nigeria. T he unions grievances include the  ✓non-payment of two months’ salaries  ✓failure to release of  the ₦50 billion earned allowances approved for non-academic staff,  ✓delay in renegotiating the 2009 FGN/NASU/SSANU agreement ✓ non-payment of arrears of 25% and 35%  salary increments promised by the Federal Government. ✓ immediate remittance of third-...

Check how to register for  Cambridge IGCSE A level exam 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐒  𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐂𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 IN NIGERIA  The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has made major adjustments to the departmental subject classifications for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)  NEW DEPARTMENTAL CLASSIFICATIONS 1. ART Department  now to be known and called HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT  2. COMMERCIAL Department now  to be known and  called BUSINESS DEPARTMENT  3.SCIENCE Department  Retains its name and still to be known and called SCIENCE DEPARTMENT. SUBJECT SELECTION STRUCTURE Students must now choose subjects under one of the following three programmes: 1 SCIENCES 2.HUMANITIES (formerly Art) 3.BUSINESS (formerly Commercial/Social Science) Each student must select 6 elective subjects and 3 compulsory subjects. AVAILABLE EXAMINATION SUBJECTS ...

The minister of science and Technology, Uche Geoffrey NNaji has been enveloped in  certificate forgery. NNaji dilemma started in 2023 when  he was nominated as a minister by the present President Bola Ahmed Tinubu  The aftermath of the insinuation by the watchdog in the Society lead to the disclaimer by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka ( UNN) . In a letter dated October 2, 2025, and signed by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Simon Ortuanya, UNN disowned the certificate currently being paraded by the minister. “From every available record and information from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, we are unable to confirm that Mr Geoffrey Uchechukwu Nnaji, the current Minister of Science and Technology, graduated from the University of Nigeria in July 1985, as there are no records of his completion of study in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. “Following from above, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka DID NOT and consequently, COULD NOT have issued the purported certificate, or at a...