Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has delisted 76 Computer-Based Test Centres for various infractions during the recently concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, raising fears that results from those centres may be cancelled. JAMB announced the delisting just as it appointed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria to prosecute about 100 persons allegedly involved in various malpractices […]
The Vice-Chancellor, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Prof. Suleiman Bala-Mohammed, says the management will not spare any lecturer who demands sex for marks from students. Bala-Mohammrd gave the advised in Keffi on Friday during the 17th matriculation ceremony of 6000 students for the 2018/2019 session of the institution. According to him, the institution is totally against […]
A total of 540 persons died, while 3, 383 others were injured in 950 road traffic crashes across the country in January, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has reported. A total of 7, 827 persons were involved in those accidents. The agency in its monthly Road Traffic Crash (RTC) Report signed by the Corps Marshal, […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service has disclosed plans to team up with the Nigeria Police Force, Military defense and other agencies in the Nigeria force to end fake recruiters in Nigeria. This was made known by General Muhammad Babandede who is the Comptroller-General of the service, while speaking with correspondents in Abuja on Thursday 2nd May […]
Nigerian energy group Aiteo has reopened the oil-exporting Nembe Creek Trunk Line, the company said in a statement, after closing it on April 21 due to a fire. The pipeline is one of two that exports Bonny Light crude oil. Royal Dutch Shell, which operates the export terminal, declared force majeure last week on the […]
The federal government has raised the alarm that the country’s unemployment rate would reach 33.5 per cent by 2020. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, said this Thursday in Abuja while declaring open a two-day workshop on “Breaking the Resilience of High Unemployment Rate in the Country.” He said that the increase in […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), South-east Zonal Office, on Wednesday, arrested 37 suspected internet fraudsters in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The zonal head, Usman Imam, said the arrest followed a raid on some targeted residences in Okwu Urata, Aladinma and Egbu areas. He said the commission acted on intelligence report, “which pointed […]
The Senate has approved the report of its Committee on Culture and Tourism on the sale of the National Theatre and the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos. The approval followed the presentation of the report by Senator Fatimat Raji-Rasaki during plenary on Thursday at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. Senator Gilbert […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board may cancel as much as half of the results of its 2019 university admissions exams in some states of the federation, a senior official have told PREMIUM TIMES.The official, who requested anonymity to be able to discuss JAMB’s delay in releasing results, expressed disgust at the massive malpractice recorded […]
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC said that 132 companies had bid for the right to swap the nation’s crude oil for fuels as a tender for the deals closed on Thursday. The tender for the one-year contracts, dubbed direct sale, direct-purchase (DSDP), was issued in March. NNPC extended the 2018 contracts through June of this […]