Month: April 2021

  • Imo Governor Reveals People Behind Attacks On Police Headquarters, Custodial Facility

    Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma has made shocking revelation on those behind Monday’s attacks on police headquarters and a custodial center in the state. Uzodimma made the revelation on Wednesday while featuring on Channels Television Politics Today programme. The governor explained that hoodlums were hired from outside Imo, noting that they were only disguising…

  • Body Of Missing 19-year-old Nigerian Students Found In UK Lake

    Body Of Missing 19-year-old Nigerian Students Found In UK Lake

    UK Police have confirmed the body found in a lake in Epping Forest as the 19-year-old missing Nigerian student, Richard Okorogheye. Okorogheye, was a student at Oxford Brookes University, who has sickle cell disease, left his family home in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London on the evening of March 22 and was reported…

  • 2021 UTME Registration: ‘We’ve put everything in place for the exercise “, JAMB Spokesman

    2021 UTME Registration: ‘We’ve put everything in place for the exercise “, JAMB Spokesman

    Barring any last minute change in plans, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will commence the sale of registration form to candidates who want to participate in 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Thursday. The registration exercise, according to JAMB, will run till Saturday May 15, while the UTME examination has been scheduled to…

  • 50 Arms-bearing Herdsmen Arrested In Ekiti, Borno, Others

    50 Arms-bearing Herdsmen Arrested In Ekiti, Borno, Others

    Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have arrested 50 arms-bearing herdsmen. “We arrested 50 illegally armed herdsmen and realised that some of them are into cattle rustling and kidnapping,’’ Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Audi, said on Wednesday in Abuja. He made the declaration while presenting licences to private guard…

  • Lifeless Body Of AAUA Lecturer Found In His Car

    Lifeless Body Of AAUA Lecturer Found In His Car

    A lecturer in the department of Geology, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, AAUA was on Wednesday found dead inside his car. According to a campus source, the lifeless body of the deceased lecturer was discovered inside his car by some passersby. The car, sources said was parked along Permanent site road, Akungba-Akoko in Akoko South…

  • COVID-19 Vaccine: Sex Workers Embark On Strike, Make Demand

    Sex workers in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil have gone on strike for a week, demanding to be included in the group of front-line workers receiving priority coronavirus vaccines. Thousands of sex workers in the city have been forced by pandemic-related closure of hotels, where they rented rooms to sell their services…

  • Kwara Govt Announces Recruitment Into Civil Service (See How To Apply)

    Kwara Govt Announces Recruitment Into Civil Service (See How To Apply)

    Kwara State Government has invited suitable and qualified candidates to fill the limited vacant in some Ministries, Department and Agencies, MDAs, in the Kwara State Civil Service. MALLAM JIYA GOSHI, Permanent SecretaryKwara State Civil Service Commission disclosed this in a release made available to newsmen on Tuesday. Below are the underlisted MDAs where the state…

  • 2023: With Tinubu’s Track Record, He Deserves To Be Elected As President – Fasoranti

    2023: With Tinubu’s Track Record, He Deserves To Be Elected As President – Fasoranti

    Elder statesman, Chief Reuben Fasoranti on Tuesday expressed optimism that the issues of federalism and restructuring of the country would come to reality should the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, become the nation’s president in 2023. Fasoranti stated this while receiving members of the South West Agenda for Asiwaju…

  • NANS Issues 7-day Ultimatum To Management of UI, FUNAAB, LASU Over Suspension, Rustication of 4 Students

    NANS Issues 7-day Ultimatum To Management of UI, FUNAAB, LASU Over Suspension, Rustication of 4 Students

    The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, South West Zone, has given the management of Federal University of Agriculture, University of Ibadan and Lagos State University 7 days ultimatum to reinstate suspended and rusticated students or face the full wrath of Nigerian Students. NANS decried the incessant suspension of students Union activities and their leadership…

  • Strike: Judiciary Workers Shut Down Supreme Court

    Judiciary workers under the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) have commenced an indefinite nationwide strike, thereby shutting down the Supreme Court complex in Abuja, in line with their industrial action. The strike began on Tuesday, based on their demands which include a financial autonomy for the judicial arm of government. The development came as…