The National Examinations Council (NECO), has postponed the 2019 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) into Federal Government Colleges, also know as unity schools, to April 27, 2019. A statement issued yesterday by its Head, Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez ...
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JAMB introduces biometrics for candidates as UTME begins nationwide
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has introduced Biometric Verification Machine (BVM) for its candidates, as this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) commenced yesterday. This, the board said, was in a bid to check various forms of examination ...
Read More »Again, hope dims for passage of 2019 budget by National Assembly
The Senate yesterday failed to get any report on the 2019 budget from its Appropriation Committee upon the expiration of deadline to that effect yesterday. Consequently, Senate failed to resolve issues on the budget document during plenary before adjourning session ...
Read More »Lawmakers confirm appointment of NBS Board members, ambassadorial nominees
Senate confirmed President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees for appointment as Board members of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The President had in November 2018 sent six nominees as board members of NBS to the Senate. The confirmation followed the adoption ...
Read More »Senate urges FG to facilitate Leah Sharibu’s release
Senate yesterday charged the Federal Government to urgently facilitate the release of Leah Sharibu, a female student of Science Secondary School, Dapchi in Yobe State still in Boko Haram’s captivity. A splinter group of Boko Haram terrorists had on February ...
Read More »Borno governor Shettima meets with service chiefs over insecurity, relocation of residents
Similarly, Governor Kashim Shettima and some members of the National Assembly from Borno State on Wednesday met separately with service chiefs over insecurity and relocation of residents from three communities to the Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri. ...
Read More »Buhari orders clampdown on armed bandits, kidnappers, others
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday gave a marching order to security operatives to deal ruthlessly with bandits terrorising Zamfara State and its environs. He equally sanctioned same measure for kidnappers and others engaged in acts compromising security nationwide. The president gave ...
Read More »Buhari orders clampdown on armed bandits, kidnappers, others
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday gave a marching order to security operatives to deal ruthlessly with bandits terrorising Zamfara State and its environs. He equally sanctioned same measure for kidnappers and others engaged in acts compromising security nationwide. The president gave ...
Read More »PDP, Timi Frank allege plot to incriminate former Vice President
National Working Committee (NWC) of the main opposition party and former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, have alleged plots to set up the ex-vice president. In a statement by its national publicity ...
Read More »FG cautions Atiku against overheating polity, instigating political crisis
The Federal Government has issued a stern warning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the February 23, 2019 presidential polls, Atiku Abubakar, to “henceforth, stop overheating the polity and quit trying to instigate a political crisis in Nigeria ...
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