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From tomorrow, email will no longer be required for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME and Direct Entry registration’s processes. Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede, made this known while addressing newsmen in Abuja. Oloyede said email will only be requested at the successful completion of registration by candidates to […]
Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, will commence an indefinite strike over poor funding from midnight. The union blamed the decision on alleged failure of the Federal Government to address the state of polytechnics and monotechnics, and the expiration of an ultimatum issued since March 2020. The action is coming less […]
Results for the 2021- First Series of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for private candidates is out. Head of Nigeria National Office, West African Examinations Council, WAEC, Patrick Areghan, confirmed the development to reporters. Areghan said the examination was designed to help candidates seeking admission to tertiary institutions to reduce the […]
He was abducted last night in front of his house at CROSPIL Estate, Akpabuyo, in the outskirt of Calabar. The abductors reportedly took the victim through the river at the bridgehead at Akimbo. It was the second time Comrade Ukpekpi would be kidnapped in front of his house after the first incident in December 2019. […]
Former Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Oludare Kadiri, has taken the Assembly before a Federal High Court in Abeokuta, seeking quashing of his removal by the Assembly. Kadiri was removed by nineteen lawmakers on March 4 for alleged gross misconduct and about a week later, replaced by Balogun Akeem Agbolade from […]
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is planning to engage the leadership of the National Assembly on division and alteration of electoral constituencies across the country. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, announced this during a consultative meeting with labor unions and professional associations on the proposed expansion of voter access to polling units in Nigeria. Yakubu said […]
This was the position of the President of the Nigeria Labor Congress, Ayuba Wabba, at a meeting of labor leaders with the leadership of the House of Representatives in Abuja Wabba said the workers were asking the country to respect the International Labour Organization convention on minimum wage, to which Nigeria is a signatory. Responding, […]
Aid agency Save the Children says Islamist militants are beheading children as young as eleven in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado. One mother told the agency she had had to watch as her twelve-year-old son was killed in this way close to where she was hiding with her other children. More than two thousand […]
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has insisted that there is no increment in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol this month despite a template released by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency that the new price of petrol has reached two hundred and two naira six kobo per litre. The […]
The federal government and the Republic of Benin have entered an agreement to end the importation of rice across West African countries. This agreement was announced at the end of a meeting between a delegation from Benin, the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria,RIFAN and the chief of staff to the president, Ibrahim Gambari, in Abuja […]
