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International Debate: Anambra team wins 2023 international debate championship in Malaysia

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Pupils of the Anambra State Debate Team have won the 2023 international debate championship held in Malaysia.

The team, which represented Team Nigeria at the championship, defeated Team Malaysia 1, represented by Pin Hwa High School 3-0 by unanimous decision at the semi-finals before reaching the final.

The team thereafter defeated their counterparts from the Hin Hua High School Debate team in the finals, beating them 2-1 to emerge overall winners of the competition, which ended early on Thursday.

The Anambra State debate team which represented Team Nigeria at the competition, comprised of pupils who were drawn from various secondary schools across Anambra.

A pupil of St. Michael’s Model Comprehensive Secondary School, Nimo in Njikoka LGA, Promise Mbachu, emerged as the Best Speaker of the Debate Round.

The state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, described the feat as a “thing of great joy, great happiness and a sense of wholesome achievements”.

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Chuma-Udeh said, “Coming home with the trophy has brought a lot of smiles to our faces. It is also a demonstration of how the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo,  who sponsored the trip is passionate about education in Anambra State.

“The governor has brought total reconstruction in every facet of education in the state. Today, we are bringing back this trophy, it is a mark of his achievement and glory.

“Team Anambra became Team Nigeria and as they became Team Nigeria, they went to the championship and became Team World. It is to the glory of God that for days, the children battled their counterparts from one country to another and winning with huge margin both in presentation and logic.

“They excelled until the last moment when they took on their hosts, Malaysia, on their own soil and they triumphed. They took the world by storm and now they are bringing the trophy to Anambra and to Nigeria.”

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FG approves establishment of Bola Tinubu polytechnic

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The Nigerian Government has approved the establishment of Bola Ahmed Tinubu Federal Polytechnic in Gwarinpa, Abuja.

This move is part of a national effort to ensure that every state in Nigeria has at least one federal polytechnic.

The decision, made public in a letter dated January 9, 2025, was addressed to Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, by Education Minister Dr. Tunji Alausa.

The letter, which was received by Wike’s office on January 16, 2025, urged the FCT Minister to propose possible locations for both the temporary and permanent sites of the polytechnic in Gwarinpa.

A team from the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Board for Technical Education will assess the suggested locations before final approval.

The new institution aims to foster training in technology, vocational skills, and entrepreneurship.

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ASUU kicks against Senate attempt to dismantle the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) through the proposed tax reform bill.

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned the National Assembly and the National Economic Council against any attempt to dismantle the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) through the proposed tax reform bill.
In a press conference at Bayero University, Kano, on Wednesday, ASUU Zonal Coordinator for Kano Zone, Professor Abdulkadir Muhammad, stressed that the union would not stand by while its key initiative is dismantled.

Titled Nigeria Tax Bill 2024 and Its Consequences on TETFund: Killing the Brainchild of ASUU, Professor Muhammad argued that Nigerian universities could face imminent collapse if the bill currently before the assembly is passed

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Ibadan stampede: Court grants Principal, Hamzat, Silekunola bail

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An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, the state capital, has granted bail to the principal of Islamic High School, Bashorun, Ibadan, Mr. Abdullahi Fasasi; the proprietor of Agidigbo FM, Alhaji Oriyomi Hamzat; and Olori Naomi Silekunola, an estranged wife of the Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi.

The bail was granted by Justice K.B. Olawoyin on Monday.

Our correspondent reports that the trio were granted bail after the judge listened to the arguments of their counsels.

DAILY POST reports that the three were being prosecuted over a stampede that occurred at the school.

No fewer than thirty-five children died during the incident, which happened on Wednesday, December 18, 2024.

An Oyo State Magistrate Court in Iyaganku had earlier ordered that the trio be remanded at the Agodi Correctional Facility.

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