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Following alleged lopsidedness in the on-going registration of candidates by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board(JAMB), the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) of the University of Ibadan Chapter, Dr Deji Omole has called on the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede to volitionally pen his resignation letter from office. The academic union also asked the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu to call the registrar to order to lessen the difficulty being experienced by the candidates. According to the ASUU chairman, the board had outlived its usefulness and the best thing is to scrap it and allow universities design their standard examination for their own candidates. Dr Deji noted that the fact that a mock examination was stopped due to logistic reasons underscored the point of alleged incompetence of the Registrar, noting that if candidates could not do mock how sure are they to pass the examination. He said: “Why will anybody make life difficult ...

The ongoing syringe factory in the state is targeted at manufacturing 400 million syringes yearly, The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel , says According to the Governor, ten indigenes of the state , who are graduates of engineering in different fields , had been sent to Vienna for training on how to produce syringe and other hospital consumables . Speaking during the monthly prayer meeting , themed ‘ the path to greatness ’ at the Government House Chapel recently , the governor noted that South Africa has the biggest syringe factory in Africa, with 95 million syringes a year , but that the state government had already ordered eight production lines for its new factory and the equipment were expected to arrive in the state by the second week of May. He lamented that the setback recorded in his industrialisation programme last year was a result of forex crisis , but noted that there would be more employment opportunities for the people of the state before the third quarter o...

The Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commended the efforts of the Ministries of Transport, Power, Works and Housing, Kaduna State government, Julius Berger Plc, others who made possible the official re-opening of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, ahead of the deadline. It will be recalled that the airport was shut down March 8 for six weeks to pave way for rehabilitation of the runway and was billed to be re-opened today, April 19. The President was elated that the authorities met the deadline 24 hours ahead of the official date of reopening. Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. In a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, President Buhari said he “looked forward to such display of inter-agency cooperation and efficiency in the operation of the entire Federal Government machinery.” He also thanked Ethiopian Airlines for cooperating with the government during the period of the closure of Abuja airport, describing it as a good example of intra-A...

The Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commended the efforts of the Ministries of Transport, Power, Works and Housing, Kaduna State government, Julius Berger Plc, others who made possible the official re-opening of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, ahead of the deadline. It will be recalled that the airport was shut down March 8 for six weeks to pave way for rehabilitation of the runway and was billed to be re-opened today, April 19. The President was elated that the authorities met the deadline 24 hours ahead of the official date of reopening. Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. In a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, President Buhari said he “looked forward to such display of inter-agency cooperation and efficiency in the operation of the entire Federal Government machinery.” He also thanked Ethiopian Airlines for cooperating with the government during the period of the closure of Abuja airport, describing it as a good example of intra-A...

"IT may take years to find all the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014" Defence Minister Brig.-Gen. Mansur Ali has said. Boko Haram insurgents invaded the all-girls Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State and forcefully took away 276 pupils. Three years after the abduction, the insurgents are still holding on to 195 of the girls, with the Federal Government expressing readiness to negotiate their freedom. Speaking to VOA’s Hausa Service, monitored in Yola yesterday, Brig.-Gen Ali, said the military was committed to finding the girls and still combing Boko Haram hideouts in the Sambisa Forest. He likened the troops’ inability to find the girls despite retaking most of the territories initially occupied by Boko Haram to the United States (U.S.) efforts to find Osama bin Laden after the invasion of Afghanistan. The minister said: “It took the U.S. up to seven, eight, up to 10 years before they could get to bin Laden. We are continuing ou...

Detectives are to question a former governor and some high-profile owners of apartments in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos where $43.4million was recovered last Wednesday. Besides, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has identified how the controversial apartment 7B, where the $43.4m was kept, was acquired. Also recovered were £27,000 and N23m cash. The EFCC has intensified investigation into the roles played by some apartment owners and tenants on how the cash was brought into the Towers, The Nation has learnt. The anti-graft agency is said to be suspecting that some owners or tenants may have been complicit in the matter. A source said: “The more we investigate this $43.4m haul, the more we get fresh facts. It has become imperative to interact with some owners or tenants of apartments in the Towers. “We have invited a former governor and other high-profile owners and tenants for interaction. It is just to ask a few questions on whether or not they were aware of suc...

 House of Representatives believes that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation did not remit a total of $ 81 . 2 bn crude oil proceeds to the Federation Account in four years . Its ad hoc committee , which is investigating the alleged export of $ 17 bn worth of undeclared crude oil and gas resources , has demanded explanations from the corporation . The investigation covers the year 2011 to 2014 . Our correspondent gathered on Monday that the committee, which is chaired by a member of the All Progressives Congress from Adamawa State , Mr . Abdulrazak Namdas , had analysed documents from various sources, including the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative , Central Bank of Nigeria , Department of Petroleum Resources and the NNPC itself before coming to the conclusion . In its set of questions sent to the NNPC , a copy of which was obtained exclusively in Abuja , the committee noted that the total receipts from crude proceeds for the four years tallied at $...