Nigerian govt to scrap JSS, SSS separation policy after 20m pupils drop out

Nigerian government will phase out the policy separating Junior Secondary Schools from Senior Secondary Schools after data showed more than 20 million pupils dropped out before reaching the senior secondary level. Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, announced the decision Tuesday in Abuja at the inauguration of the UBEC Ministerial Implementation and Monitoring Committee. Alausa […]

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El-Rufai vs NSA: DSS doesn’t exist in Nigerian law, SSS lacks prosecutorial power ―Nigerian lawyer, Inibehe Effiong

Nigerian lawyer and rights acticist, Inibehe Effiong has stated that, under Nigerian law, there is no officially recognized body called the Department of State Services (DSS). Inibehe made the remark in a Facebook post while reacting to the arraignment of former governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai over the allegedly tapping telephone conversation of National […]

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Why is the SSS afraid of Pat Utomi’s ‘shadow government’?, By Jibrin Ibrahim

Although I have been a student of political science for over fifty years, I still often get surprised by the way in which security agencies take extremist positions in reading political criticisms of the regime in power. When my good friend Pat Utomi announced the decision of the Big Tent opposition group to set up […]

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