Signing Student Loans Act, Tinubu Pledges to Pay Special Attention to Education Stresses no Nigerian student will be denied access to quality education Says education remains only tool to effectively fight poverty
Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, signed the Student
Loans (Access to Higher Education) (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill 2024 into law at a brief ceremony at State House, Abuja,
saying he would give deserving attention to education. The short ceremony held in his office was witnessed by
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio; Deputy Senate President, Senator Jibrin Barau; Chief of Staff to the President, Hon
Femi Gbajabiamila; Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Tanko Sununu; and Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande.
Tunubu said the new law was enacted to ensure that no Nigerian Continued on page 12
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CDS: Military Legally Deployed Its Men to Okuama Community to Effect Arrest Identifies Endurance Amagbein as mastermind of killing of soldiers
Emma Okonji Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, yesterday, said
the military men in Okuama community were legally deployed with a mandate from the Commanderin-chief of Armed Forces, President
Bola Tinubu, to arrest the killers of their colleagues. Musa was reacting to public outcry that the military had invaded
Okuama community in Delta State, and had denied them the right to return home, while in search of the killers of the 17 soldiers brutally
murdered last month during a peace keeping mission. But Musa, who spoke on the Morning Show of ARISE NEWS
Channels, the broadcast arm of THISDAY Newspapers, said, Continued on page 12
Electricity Subsidy: FG Raises Tariffs for Top Priority Customers By 230.8%, N225/kwh Says bands enjoying below 20 hours daily unaffected, only 15% of power consumers impacted NERC vows to enforce sanctions on Discos attempting to cut corners CPPE, Shehu Sani insist 300% tariff increase in one fell swoop unjustifiable Declare policy will hurt households, businesses NUEE tells Tinubu to declare state of emergency in power sector Chuks Okocha, Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja, Dike Onwuamaeze and Ugo Aliogo in Lagos After about two years of tariff freeze in the power sector, the federal
government yesterday increased the rate paid per kilowatt hour (kwh) of electricity from about N68 to N225 for Band 'A' customers, who consistently Continued on page 12
A NEW DAY FOR STUDENTS BEGINS...
L-R: Deputy Senate President, Jubril Barau; Senate President, Godswill Akpabio; President Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Chief of Staff to President, Femi Gbajabiamila; and Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, during the signing of National Students Loan Amendment Bill into law, at the PHOTO: GODWIN OMOIGUI Presidential Villa Abuja..... yesterday