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The Managing Director/Chief Executive of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Madu Hamman, has urged Nigerians to take advantage of the bank’s affordable loan offers on the 1,250 Housing-Unit FMBN Mega City in Abuja to own a home. Hamman, said this when he led a team of FMBN Management staff on an inspection visit to the 140-hectare FMBN Mega City project site located behind Mopol Barracks, Deidei, off Kubwa Expressway, Abuja on Tuesday, 16 August 2022. The project comprises of 650 3-bedroom units and 600 units of 2-bedroom bungalows and the project is said to be at a 90 percent completion level. “The work done on the project is satisfactory, and the infrastructure development is ongoing: road network, water reticulation, drainages, the access road to the project site. We’ve already started onboarding off-takers who will eventually get mortgage loans to own these homes.” Madu Hamman, FMBN MD/CE The MD stated that interested subscribers could use the FMBN National Housing Fund (...

Teenage girl injected her boyfriend's HIV-positive blood into her body to prove her love for him The family of a teenage girl, who injected her boyfriend's HIV-positive blood into her body to prove her love for him, has sued their daughter's boyfriend. Last week, a 15-year-old girl from Assam in northeast India made news headlines because of the rash decision. The pair met through Facebook and had been together for around three and a half years prior to the injection, Kalinga TV reports. They had tried to run away together on multiple occasions in the past but the girl's parents had tracked them down to bring their daughter home each time. The boyfriend has now been detained by police while the girl is understood to be under the watch of doctors. The girl is said to have known the risk she was taking when she used the syringe to inject herself, although there is no information yet on whether or not the male was aware of what her intentions were. The girl’s family memb...

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), is on strike due to an agreement reached with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government in 2009. The Minister who stated this while speaking to journalists, said Nigerians should not blame the current APC-led government for the ongoing strike by ASUU. The All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council spokesperson accused the PDP government of being irresponsible over its inability to fulfil the agreement signed with ASUU in 2009. He claimed that between 1999 and 2015 when the PDP handed over to the ruling APC, ASUU 

F ormer Military Chiefs, Buratai, Abubakar To Appear Before International Criminal Court Over Alleged Human Rights Abuses, Extra-Judicial Killings Compiled In 500-page Document According to a civic group, the Africa Centre for Human Rights, an extensive investigation has been carried out on the two former military chiefs and the centre has gathered sufficient evidence in a 500-page document to indict the former service chiefs at the ICC in The Hague, Netherlands. A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai (retd) and his Nigerian Air Force counterpart, Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar (retd) will soon face criminal charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged human rights abuses and extra-judicial killings during their time as security chiefs. According to a civic group, the Africa Centre for Human Rights, an extensive investigation has been carried out on the two former military chiefs and the centre has gathered sufficient evidence in a 500-page document t...

       LAUTECH calls off strike, resumes academic session The management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), LAUT ECH calls off strike, resumes academic session The management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, has called off its unions’ six months old strike. The institution also announced the date for the commencement of academic activities for the 2021/2022 academic session which will be on Thursday, August 18, 2022. This was contained in a circular titled: “Release to Staff and Students: Continuation of the First Semester of the 2021/2022 Academic Session”, and signed by the Registrar of the University, Dr. Kayode Ogunleye. The statement reads partly, “Upon the directive of the Visitor to the university, the management, hereby, informs all staff and students that the university will continue its academic activities for the first semester of the 2021/2022 academic session on Thursday, August 18, 2022”. While urging...