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The Federal Government has approved an increase of N5bn as take-off grant for the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta, from N2bn earlier announced. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, made this disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Usani said the presidential approval for the N5bn budget allocation was based on the recommendation of a committee in the Ministry of Education tasked with the activation of the university. The Minister disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari had also approved an immediate release of N1bn to the university to support essential infrastructure works and staff recruitment. He said the N1bn that would be released is separate from the N5bn allocated in the 2018 budget submitted to the National Assembly. He added that the Maritime University authorities had commenced the process of recruiting staff with advert placements published in the dailies , blogs and other online outlets. The minister said that under the new visi...

(NAN)- I n a bid to check drug abuse on campus, the University of Lagos has provided a drug test kit in its medical centre to examine students suspected to be on hard drugs. The institution said no less than 100 illicit drug users were caught within a year of commencement of the tests. Outgoing Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Rahaman Bello, confirmed this at a forum with   News Agency of Nigeria  in Lagos. Bello said the initiative was necessary because drug abuse was on the increase, generally, in the nation’s tertiary institutions. “Drug abuse is a major problem for every institution, particularly those in the cities. We have gone ahead in the University of Lagos to address it. “With the test kit, anyone who is suspected, his/her urine or blood — depending on what we want to do — is collected for test. “The thing about drug is that when you take it, it will be in your blood for a long time, so you cannot say, ‘I did not use it’ once the test kit detects it....