By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has conducted recruitment examination for about 191,000 candidates that applied for jobs in the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). Speaking with newsmen during the exercise on Monday in Abuja, the Secretary...
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The social media, particularly Twitter, has been awashed in the last 24 hours following avideo of the wife of a Channels Television reporter, Ifeanyinwa Angbo, crying to the public for help over alleged repeated assault by her husband, Pius Angbo. In video seen by our Correspondent, the woman narrated how...
The Cross River Fire and Rescue Service on Monday tasked Nigerians on fire safety and prevention as the dry season sets in. Mr Maxwell Odiga, Head, Public Relations Unit of the Service, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said it was important for people to...
Mr Oyekunle Olusegun, the National Coordinator of Organic Farming Food for African, an Abuja-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has canvassed for organic farming to facilitate job creation in the country. He made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Osogbo. NAN gathered...
An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos, on Monday sentenced a 19-year-old cobbler, Umar Mohammed and a 20-year-old driver, Umar Lawal to two years imprisonment for extorting a phone from a man. The Judge, Lawal Suleiman however, gave them an option of fine of N10, 000 or...
Anambra Civil Society Network (ACSONET) and a Coalition of Anambra Youth Leaders (CAYL) have urged people of the state to shun the clamor for #EndSARSRenewedProtests in Anambra. They made the call in two separate statements in Awka following the utterances on the social media inciting the citizens Nigerians to...
Alhaji Kazeem Rabiu, Chairman, Egbe-Idimu Community Development Association (CDA) in Lagos State, said on Monday that Nigerians must get more involved in governance for stronger synergy between the government and the governed. Rabiu, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) noted that “Nigerians are naturally hardworking people...
Mr Charlse Akpuenika, Ebonyi Commissioner for Youth Development and Sports on Monday in Abakaliki advised youths to always shun politicians’ overtures to be used as thugs. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) he said youths should ask politicians looking for thugs to use their children to discharge...
The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested 178 suspects in Kano metropolis for violating the law against street begging from September to November 2020. The Commander-General of the board, Mr Harun Ibn-Sina, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Monday. ”The...
Senator representing Kaduna Central, Uba Sani, has said that posterity would not judge them right if President Buhari ended his tenure without completing the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano road project. Speaking in an interview in a local Hausa radio programme ,the Senator said if the work is not completed during Buhari’s tenure,”...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, said it is ready to partner the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), to provide all public universities with independent power supply. It also disclosed that it is currently working in 27 universities, including Bayero University, Kano and Kwara State University,...
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun-Sen said that he would not propose King Norodom Sihamoni to put the country in the state of emergency although he had already drafted the request. “As the head of the government, I would like to confirm that there will be no request (to His...
The Defence Headquarters says troops of Sector-1 Operation Whirl Stroke on Sunday eliminated three bandits and recovered arms and ammunition in an encounter at Tsehombe-Adaka village in Benue. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Monday, said the troops responded to a distress call...
COVID-19 vaccines from China were in good condition upon arrival in Indonesia and refrigeration vehicles for delivery have been well prepared to keep the vaccines undamaged and safe. Health Minister, Terawan Agus Putranto said on Monday. “The physical checks must be carried out accurately, so that we are sure...
The Defence Headquarters says the Air Component of Operation Thunder Strike, has killed scores of bandits in air strikes on their camp at Kuduru Forest area of Kaduna State on Saturday. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Enenche...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mr Moses Cleopas the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the Dec. 5, Bayelsa Central Senatorial by-election. INEC Returning Officer, Associate Prof. Emmanuel Akpan, of the Federal University Otuoke, (FUO) announced that Cleopas polled 110,019 votes to defeat his closest...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mr Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of Dec. 5, Bayelsa West senatorial by-election.INEC Returning Officer Prof. Okechukwu Okeke, of the Federal University Otuoke, (FUO) said that Dickson polled 115,257 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mr...