Following the announcement of the cut-off mark for 2017 admission by JAMB, the deadline for the completion of the 2017/2018 academic session admission was also announced.
Tuesday 22 August 2017
JAMB Issues Deadline for 2017/18 Admission
Following the announcement of the cut-off mark for 2017 admission by JAMB, the deadline for the completion of the 2017/2018 academic session admission was also announced.
SEE: JAMB to Use New Method for 2017/18 Admission Process
The Registrar of JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede, at the 2017 Combined Policy Meetings on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria, said a Central Admission Processing System, CAPS, will be used to streamline admission processes among institutions, as it addresses challenges associated with the former approach.
JAMB Drops New Cut-Off Marks For Universities,Polytechnics and Colleges of education
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board on Tuesday said 569,395 of the 1.7 million candidates that wrote this year’s UTME scored over 200 marks.
The Registrar, JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this at the policy meeting of the stakeholders of Tertiary Institutions in Abuja.
Napoli, Sevilla, Celtic into Champions League Group Stage.
A Jose Callejon goal helped Napoli ease into the Champions League group stage on Tuesday, while Sevilla also went through and Celtic suffered a scare in Kazakhstan before winning their play-off tie.
Third in Serie A last season, Napoli were too strong for Nice, winning 2-0 in France with Callejon and Lorenzo Insigne both scoring as they progressed 4-0 on aggregate.
READ: Court Orders Forfeiture of 56 Houses linked to Diezani Madueke
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the temporary forfeiture of 56 houses linked to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.
The houses, located in Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt, were said to have been acquired by the ex-minister between 2011 and 2013 using front companies.
Treat Nnamdi Kanu with utmost care, Fani-Kayode warns Buhari
former aviation minister and ardent critic of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, Femi Fani-Kayode, has warned the President to treat IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, with utmost care because he is the reincarnated copy of the trio of Chief Odimegwu Ojukwu, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu and Chief Nnamdi Azikwe rolled into one.
Monday 21 August 2017
NEWS: BBC Pidgin takes to the Airwaves in Nigeria
Imagine a language without an alphabet, held together without grammar or spelling, which changes every day but is nonetheless spoken and understood by more than 75 million Nigerians.
So how would a global mega-broadcaster like the BBC go about reaching this vast, young and un-tapped audience?
NEWS:APC says no zoning of Anambra Governorship ticket.
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said that it has not zoned the Anambra Governorship ticket to any part of the state as being speculated.
Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, APC National Publicity Secretary, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
READ: Hackers hit Malaysian Sites over Indonesia flag gaffe.
Indonesian hackers Monday claimed responsibility for attacking more than 30 Malaysian websites following a gaffe that saw Indonesia’s flag printed upside-down in a Southeast Asian Games commemorative magazine.
Malaysia’s SEA Games organisers sparked outrage in Indonesia when news of the misprint came to light at Saturday’s opening ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.
NEWS: Buhari Shocks The Nation
Nigerians who had probably waited to hear a bombshell from President Muhammadu Buhari as he addressed the nation this morning must have been shocked.
This was the observation of journalism teacher, Dr. Mao Austin, in an analysis monitored on Radio Nigeria.
NEWS: Total to Buy Maersk Oil for $7.45 billion
French oil giant Total said Monday that it would buy Maersk Oil, a unit of the Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, for $7.45 billion.
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READ: Arrest Nnamdi Kanu, flush out cabals immediately - Arewa youths beg Buhari
Arewa Youth Forum, AYF, an umbrella organization of all youths in the north has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his return back to the country after 104 days in London. The youths while welcoming the president called on him to arrest Nnmadi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra over his divisive and negative utterances about the country. Similarly, the youths also urged President Buhari to flush out the alleged cabals in his cabinet because they have been impeding the progress of the country, Daily Post reports.
The youths made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Kaduna state by its national president, Alhaji Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu.
Thursday 17 August 2017
READ: 4-year-old Girl Sacrificed To idol in Lagos Shrine.
The lifeless body of a four-year-old child has been discovered close to a shrine in Iwaya area of Lagos state.The child that was found Farida Ayomide Suleiman was declared missing on Tuesday. She was last seen on Tuesday with her siblings on their way to the mosque. It was gathered that the deceased toddler and her siblings had left the mosque to go to a family friend’s house.
ASUU STRIKE : Lecturers, Students to return to Classes in 1 Week - MINISTER
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, on Thursday August 17 said the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities may be called off within one week.
He said that the ministry and other major stakeholders were already holding meetings with the union to resolve some of the issues that led to the strike. He assured that with the level of progress made in the negotiation, there was hope that students and lecturers would return to classes within one week. “The issue of renegotiation is already going on. I have already written a letter formalising the meeting I had with the union because I went alone to face them and I wrote a letter which I gave them yesterday.
Wednesday 16 August 2017
READ: Kwara Assembly Bans Strip Clubs in Hotels
Kwara House of Assembly on Wednesday announced the prohibition of strip clubs or nude parties in all government and privately-owned hotels operating in the state.
The assembly gave the order in its resolution after adopting a motion entitled: “Banning Nude Parties in Hotels in Kwara’’ moved by the House Leader, Hassan Oyeleke (APC, Esa Sawo).
READ: ASUU strike may end in 2 days.- GOVERNMENT
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, yesterday assured Nigerians that the industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may end in two days.
In an exclusive interview with The Guardian yesterday in Abuja, the minister noted that the administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari has a policy of engaging unions, including ASUU.
READ: 6 easons Antonio Conte Should be Scared for his Job
Barely two weeks to the start of the new season, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte came out to say that he had to be careful to avoid a ‘Mourinho season’ in reference to the Portuguese tactician’s dismal third season in his second stint as Chelsea boss. Well, the season kicked off for the champions last Saturday and they started worse than the fabled ‘Mourinho season’ losing 2-3 at home to a Burnley team that only managed a single away win last season, and finished the game with nine men. This start was unprecedented and has already put the proverbial cat among the pigeons at Stamford Bridge.READ: Niger Delta Group asks Yoruba, Northerners to disregard Quit Notice
The Niger Delta People’s Congress (NDPC) has called on Yoruba and northerners to disregard the quit notice by a coalition of agitators and former militants asking them to leave the oil-rich region on or before October 1 this year.
Its convener, Chief Mike Loyibo, in an interview yesterday in Yenagoa, said the threat was not a true representation of the position of elders, leaders and people of the area, adding that the true stakeholders were committed to an indivisible Nigeria where everyone was free to live and do business.
Monday 14 August 2017
ljaw Youths To IPOB, MASSOB: "We Are Not Part Of Biafra"
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Monday, warned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) to stay away from Ijaw territories.
IYC said the pro-Biafra groups should desist from including Ijaw territories in their map of Biafra insisting that the Ijaw ethnic nationality had no time agreed to be part of any Biafra.
The IYC in a statement signed by a spokesman, Daniel Dasimaka, said the Ijaw people had never been part of Biafra.
The Ijaw group explained that the old Eastern region was a political miscalculation that enslaved the Ijaw people.
Besides it said that the old Eastern region was formed by persons, who also designed “this miscarriage of a state called Nigeria”.
It said that the Ijaw was not against genuine aspirations of all peoples and groups including the MASSOB and IPOB, to attain self-determination or secession.
But the group insisted that persons agitating for secession should not drag the Ijaw ethnic nationality into their geographical expressions.
IYC said: “Ijaws are a distinct ethnic nation even before the 1914 amalgamation that has its own dreams, wishes and aspirations that should not be submerged as footnotes in any other peoples’ struggles.
“We Ijaw people are not Biafrans. Therefore, if or when any Ijaw person or group feel a sense of allegiance to Biafra and speak in its favour, let it be known that such statements are the personal opinions of such persons, which do not reflect the thoughts, views and wishes of the entire Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta people”.
4 Arrested In India For Leaking ‘Game of Thrones’ Episode.
Four people have been arrested in India for leaking an episode from HBO’s “Game of Thrones” television series before it was aired in the country, police said Monday.
Already the most pirated show in TV history, the popular fantasy drama — which tells the story of noble families vying for the Iron Throne — has been plagued by leaks in recent weeks following the premiere of the seventh season.
Chinese Businessman Gao Buys Southampton Stake
Southampton have entered into a partnership with Chinese businessman Gao Jisheng, the Premier League club’s owner Katharina Liebherr announced on Monday.
“I am pleased to confirm that talks to bring in a new partner to our club have been concluded,” said Liebherr in an open letter to supporters on the club website.
“Following extensive and fruitful work, we are entering into a partnership with the Gao family and I am excited about what we will achieve together.”
C.Ronaldo Bags 5-match Ban For Pushing Referee
Cristiano Ronaldo was hit with a five-match ban by the Spanish football federation (RFEF) on Monday for pushing the referee after being sent-off in Real Madrid’s 3-1 Spanish Super Cup, first leg win over Barcelona.
The World Player of the Year received an automatic one-match ban for his dismissal on Sunday and an extra four games for his reaction towards referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea.
HURRAY!!: Happy Birthday To The Legendary Jay Jay Okocha
The talented former professional footballer made an unforgettable impression in the hearts of many during the course of his career. He was born on August 14, 1973 and turns 44 today. For all the times he kept us entertained and put smiles on our faces, we say a very happy birthday and many happy returns to him.
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Pakistan marks 70 years of independence with fireworks, air show.
Pakistan Monday celebrated 70 years of independence from British India with fireworks and plans for the country’s largest air display, as the military’s top brass vowed to wipe out terrorists days after a deadly blast.
Celebrations began at the stroke of midnight with fireworks displays in major cities.
NEWS:BREAKING: ASUU begins Nationwide Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has commenced an indefinite nationwide industrial action.
The National President of the union, Dr. Biodun Ogunyemi, announced this on Monday during a meeting of the National Executive Council of ASUU in Abuja.
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