I have received a large number of complaints from students who were awarded scholarships through the Federal Scholarship Board since 2024 but are yet to receive their scholarship payments.
The volume of complaints has become a serious concern, and I will be engaging the Federal Scholarship Board in the coming days to ascertain the cause of the delay and understand why these scholarship awardees have not been paid.
I urge all affected awardees to remain calm and patient. We will engage the relevant authorities and get to the root of this matter.
The welfare and rights of Nigerian students remain our priority, and we will continue to demand answers and accountability where necessary.
Thank you.
BABTEE
NANS PRESIDENT.
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We captured this beautiful moment of Chimdiebube Onwubiko arriving in Enugu yesterday to a hero's welcome.
He won a gold medal at the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome.
I love seeing education reclaim its rightful place in our society.
This is just the beginning of something great.
Whether you are supporting Tinubu or not, help your neighbor abeg to share positive news to lift families from poverty by saying:
2: Help, help, help, help oooooo
-(a): Just buy your UTME form.
-(b): NO MORE NIGHT VIGIL AGAIN TO PAY SCHOOL FEES. NO DEMON AGAIN for SCHOOL FEES.
-(c): FG not Tinubu has created opportunities to make university education more affordable through initiatives such as the @NELFUND which provides eligible students with access to interest-free student loans.
-(d): Education should never be out of reach for any determined Nigerian.
The wait is over.
We have 2 golds: Chimdiebube Onwubiko and Don Anele Munachimso.
We are the best in the world!
Egejurum Onyedikachi’s name was omitted. He should have a gold.
Don't be mischievous Rinu @SavvyRinu. We Muslims understand the rules of agreements and engagement. You will never find us fighting a purely private Christian school to enforce the hijab.
I went to a heavily churched private school myself. Only God can forgive me for the number of Jumat prayers I missed during that time. Na me go there. Nobody forced my parents to enroll me.
It was not until I became the Headboy, the only Muslim Headboy they had in decades, that I fought for Muslim students to be exempted from participating in church services.
My influence on the management got us that victory, but we were still not allowed to pray. We had to sneak into hidden corners where they would not see us just to pray Zhur. We accepted that reality because it was their private space and their rules.
Let me remind you clearly on what this fight is about. We are fighting for fairness in public institutions. We are talking about government-owned schools built and run with taxpayers money.
In a public school, no Nigerian child should be forced to abandon their religious identity at the school gate just to get an education.
Nobody is dragging private missionary schools with you. When a school takes public funds, it must accommodate the public. Let’s frame this conversation with honesty and stop blurring the lines.
Look at America, Europe and Canada today.
Indians are leading top companies, building global technology, running hospitals, teaching in world-class universities and occupying important positions across the world.
Look at China.
They moved hundreds of millions from poverty to global power by taking education, science, engineering, manufacturing and national planning seriously.
None of this happened by accident.
Nations that invest in human capital eventually export influence.
That is the path we must take.
We are not grooming children just to survive Nigeria.
We are grooming a generation that will compete with the best minds on earth.
Our education must move from survival to global domination.
I believe this question is asked considering the reality that most modern buildings now have the washroom and the toilet in the same space. If that is the case, we need to answer and build an intellectual argument based on the anchors of our scholars.
Firstly, on the permissibility of making wudu there, it’s critical that we start with a foundational Fiqh principle that says:
الأصل في الأشياء الطهارة
"The default ruling for all things is purity."
In the past, places for relieving oneself were open pits of dirt. Today, modern bathrooms are tiled and sanitized. The impurity is strictly confined to the inside of the toilet bowl. Since the water from your sink is pure and the spot you stand on is pure, making wudu there is permissible.
In fact, contemporary scholarship has spoken clearly on this. The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta (Al-Lajnah Ad-Da'imah), along with major scholars such as Shaykh Abdul Aziz bin Baz, were asked this specific question. Their verdict is clear: making wudu in a modern bathroom is entirely permissible.
They anchored their reasoning on the physical reality of the space. The physical impurity (Najasa) in our modern setup is restricted entirely to the inside of the toilet bowl just like I said earlier. Therefore, the wudu is perfectly valid.
As regards the second question on saying Bismillah, I believe this requires deep Fiqhi nuance. There is a well-known Hadith recorded by Abu Dawud where the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
لا وضوء لمن لم يذكر اسم الله عليه
"There is no wudu for one who does not mention the name of Allah upon it."
How then do we balance acting on this Hadith with the Islamic etiquette of not mentioning Allah's name in a toilet?
We have to apply a Fiqh principle called تحقيق المناط (Tahqiq al-Manat), which means verifying the reality of the situation.
We ask: Is a modern bathroom the same as an ancient toilet?
We know that in the time of the Prophet, toilets were open pits called الحشوش (Al-Hushush). However, today, you flush the impurity away instantly.
If we go by this juxtaposition, some contemporary scholars argue that if you flush the toilet and close the lid, the room is no longer a place of Najasa. It becomes a regular washroom.
However, to stay on the safest side of caution, we have to look at the ruling on the Bismillah itself. The majority of scholars view saying it as a Sunnah. The Hanbali school, however, views it as obligatory.
This is where Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen brings the perfect balance in his book Ash-Sharh al-Mumti'. He explains that if the toilet and the washing area are in one undivided room, the ruling of the toilet applies to the entire space. You cannot utter the name of Allah out loud in there.
Even though some scholars further argued that speech requires the tongue, meaning saying it in the heart does not count as a statement. However, Ibn Uthaymeen relied on the principle that says:
المانع الشرعي كالمانع الحسي
A legislative barrier is treated like a physical barrier.
This implies that when an action of the tongue is restricted by a legislative barrier, the action of the heart takes its place.
To fulfill the obligation without compromising respect, he gave us a very practical recommendation. You say Bismillah outside the door before you step in. Or, if you are already inside standing at the sink, you say it in your heart without moving your tongue.
This way, you secure the reward, validate your wudu across all schools of thought, and maintain the high respect the name of Allah deserves.
Allah knows best.
The 3 wise men from the East are set to head to Rome: Chimdiebube Onwubiko, Egejurum Onyedikachi, and Don Anele Munachimso.
Their assignment is simple: bring back the gold.
They will be competing with 154 other countries in Rome, Italy, this week.
Since Nigeria couldn’t qualify for the World Cup, this will be our World Cup.
I just finished co-presenting a paper titled "Tentative Truths: Yorùbá Indigenous Knowledge of Animals in Epistemic Transition," with Dr. Nathaniel Omilani of the Department of Science and Technology Education, University of Ìbàdàn, at the ongoing Lagos Studies Association, 2026.
When we came into office, we made a promise to Nigerians that food security would be a major pillar of our Renewed Hope agenda.
We promised to support our farmers, strengthen local production, reduce dependence on imports, and build an agricultural system strong enough to withstand shocks from beyond our borders.
That promise is being kept.
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There should be a bill to create offices of President, Vice President, Governorship and Deputy Governorship and assemblies to be gender sensitive.
All political parties must ensure that:
1. If a man wins the Presidential ticket, the VP must be given to a woman.
2. Same for Governor and Deputy
3. Senate, at least one woman must be presented.
4. House of Rep and assembly, depending on the number of constituencies in the state, but women must be given consideration
A common misconception in people early in their career is that they think they should be capable of the work before they’ve done it but it is doing the work that creates the individual that is capable of it.
I will not stand before you and declare the work finished, because it is not. The housing deficit this nation carries is counted in the millions, and it will take years of steady labour to close, and I would rather say that to you plainly than flatter you with a lie.
But the difference now is real. For the first time in a generation, the whole housing value-chain is moving together: the land and its title, the building, the materials, the equipment, the finance, and the family at the end of it, and no part waits idle on another.
Housing has moved from a welfare conversation to a national growth strategy. Real estate and construction now sit among Nigeria’s major GDP contributors, proving that every affordable home financed is also a factory order, a labour contract, a mortgage asset, a household balance sheet and a contribution to national output.
That is what I promised for our housing sector, and that is what is now being delivered. Renewed Hope was never charity. It is the right of every Nigerian to a place called home.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
When I placed the Renewed Hope Agenda before Nigerians, I did not speak of housing in vague terms. I gave my word that this administration would work to make decent homes affordable again, and that a hardworking family, after years of paying rent, would finally have a path to a house of its own.
Let me account for that promise plainly, by juxtaposing what we pledged beside what we have actually achieved.
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