A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, sitting in Zuba, has ordered the final forfeiture of property worth N124.5 million illegally acquired by a Principal Accountant in the Finance and Accounts Department of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Daniel ...
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NECO postpones national common entrance exam to April 27
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 ...
Read More »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 »Federal Government acquires N5.4 billion firefighting equipment
The Federal Government has acquired a state-of the-art aircraft’s firefighting simulator worth N5.4 billion (£11.5 million). The equipment was on Monday inspected and tested by Nigerian officials in London ahead of their shipment to Nigeria. Head of delegation and Minister ...
Read More »Inter-religious group moves against extremism, intolerance, disunity, others
Worried by the constant whipping of the nation’s fault lines of religion and ethnicity by the political class and others for selfish ends, the National Inter-Faith and Religious Organisations for Peace (NIFROP) is beginning an aggressive campaign against what it ...
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