Category: News

  • ASUU Strike Update: ASUU To Hold Another Meeting with FG 7th Jan.

    The Academic Staff Union of Universoties ASUU has hinted that it will continue talks with the Feeral Govcernment Next week Monday (January 7th, 2019) over the lingering strike embarked upon by the Lecturers. This was discloised by the National President of the Union Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi yesterday. He, however, said that the union has not…

  • WAEC Extends 2019 GCE Registration to January 13th, 2019 -First Series

    This is to inform intending candidates for the 2019 First series of the PRIVATE WASSCE (WAEC GCE) that the deadline for registration has been extended. The earlier deadline which was December 28th 2018 has been shifted to January 13th, 2019. The registration fee remains Thirteen Thousand, Nine Hundred and Fifty Naira (N13,950) only. Those who…

  • ASUU Strike Update:NANS Begins Mobilization For Mass Protest, 3rd Jan.

    ASUU Strike Update: NANS Begins Mobilization For Mass Action Against FG, ASUU and ASUP The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has issued a notice to all its structures and organs to commence mobilisation for mass protest against the Federal Government, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics on Monday…

  • ASUU Strike Update: FG Releases N15.89 Billion To ASUU, 2nd Jan.

    There are strong indications that the Acadrmic Staff Union Univesities (ASUU) may call off the ongoing strike action soon following the release of N15.89billion to universities on New Year’s Eve (Monday) for the payment of shortfall in salaries of universities. According to the anonymous source that disclosed this information, the cash is expected to hit…

  • List of Approved JAMB CBT Centres for 2019 UTME Registration

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) list of approved and accredited JAMB CBT Centres for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration has been released. Candidates are to note that the accredited CBT centres are the only approved centres for the 2019 UTME/DE registration. S/N TOWN CENTRE NAME 1 ABA Golden Foundations Int’l…

  • INEC May Not Use Student Due To Asuu Strike – 2019 Election

    INEC May Reconsider Using Ex Corpers, Npower Volunteers and others Due To Assu Strike – 2019 Election According to the News report by Daily Trust, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may not use students as ad hoc staff if the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) continues. The Head of…

  • ASUU Strike Update: NANS Issues 2 Weeks Ultimatum To FG and ASUU

    ASUU Strike Update: NANS Issues 2 Weeks Ultimatum To FG and ASUU, 30th December, 2018 The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has issued a two weeks ultimatum to the federal government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end the ongoing strike action or face the full wrath of Nigerian students. This was…

  • Chris Ngige: President Buhari Second Term Will End Unemployment

    Awka THE Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has expressed optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari’s second tenure would end youth unemployment in the country, explaining that the federal government has put in place a programme that would achieve the objective. Speaking at Ojoto in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State during…

  • IGP Approves Recruitment of another 10,000 Police Officers, Dec., 2018

    The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris has approved the conduct of another recruitment of 10,000 policemen into the force in Nigeria. Disclosing this on Saturday in Calabar, Cross River State capital at the passing out parade ceremony of 276 police recruits, the IGP said that in meeting the United Nation recommendation of one…

  • Npower Stipends December 2018 Payment Update

    Disregard any information that 2016 Npower Batch are not going to be Paid their December stipends. It was stated cleared in one of Mr Afolabi post update few weeks ago that 2016 Npower beneficiaries will continue to earn their monthly stipends while they work before the enhancement details made public. Nevertheless, December Payment will commence…

  • ASUP Strike Update: ASUP To Meet With FG January 10th, 2019

    The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has revealed that the negotiation between the union and the Federal Government towards resolving the ongoing nationwide strike will resume on January 10th, 2018. This was disclosed by the National President of ASUP, Mr. Usman Dutse, while speaking to news men in Lagos According to Dutse, the meeting became…

  • Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Promote 4660 Personnel

    Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC PROMOTES 4,660 PERSONNEL, UNDERSCORES HARD WORK AND IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY Sequel to the approval by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha and in line with the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) Board approval on the recently conducted promotion exercise, the result of the 2017 promotion exercise…

  • Ecobank Nigeria Rewards Excellence; Promotes Staff, December, 2018

    The Management of Ecobank Nigeria Limited has announced the promotion of about 1,000 top performing staff. This latest promotion exercise is in line with its commitment to recognize and reward excellent performance amongst its staff. The promoted staff cut across all cadres of the workforce. The Managing Director of Ecobank Nigeria, Patrick Akinwuntan who announced…

  • Official JAMB Registration Date For 2019 UTME, January 10th, 2019

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially announced that the sales of JAMB registration form for 2019 UTME will commence on January 10th, 2019. The announcement was made by JAMB’s Registrar Professor Oloyede during a meeting with owners of JAMB Computer Based Test Centres at the University of Lagos. According to professor Oloyede, the sales of form…

  • Unemployed Nigerians Increased from 17.6 Million to 20.9 Million – NBS

    A whopping 20.9 million Nigerians are currently unemployed, up from the figure of 17.6 million obtainable in the last quarter of 2017. According to data released on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the spike in unemployment between the last quarter of 2017 and the third quarter of 2018 is 3.3 million. The…

  • ASUU Strike Update: We Are Determined To Reach Agreement, 19th Dec.

    The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Tuesday, has disclosed that progress was being recorded in the negotiation with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, adding that the meeting which was held on Monday was not deadlocked and ASUU did not walk put of the meeting as reported by…

  • ASUU Strike Update: Strike Unresolved, 18th December, 2018

    The meeting between Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) last Monday ended in deadlock again. It was gathered that the ASUU delegates stormed out of the meeting. With this development, the ongoing strike may not end any time soon as announced earlier by the Minister of Labour and employment, Dr Chris Ngige.…

  • ASUP Strike Update: ASUP-FG Meeting Inconclusive, Continues 2019

    The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and the Federal Government failed to reach any agreement in the meeting held yesterday between the two parties to find an end to the strike action embarked upon by ASUP last week. At the end, the meeting was adjourned to January, after the Christmas and New Year celebration. The…

  • Police Recruitment: 158,773 Apply for 10,000 Slots in 18 days

    The Police Service Commission (PSC) says it has received 158,773 applications in the ongoing recruitment of 10,000 constables into the Nigeria Police Force. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commission had received 104,289 applications as at December 11, 12 days after the recruitment portal was opened. President Muhammadu Buhari recently approved the…

  • ASUU Strike Update: Strike Will Be Called Off Soon – Federal Government

    ASUU Strike Update: Strike Will Be Called Off Soon – Federal Government, 17th December, 2018 The federal government has stated that going by the discussion and meetings had with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the past few weeks, the ongoing strike action by the union which has paralysed academic activities in the…

  • WAEC GCE 2019 1st Series Exam Timetable – See Exam Timetable

    DATE SUBJECT/PAPER TIME Monday, 21st January, 2019 Civic Education 2 (Essay) Civic Education 1 (Objective) 9.30 am – 11.30 am 11.30 am – 12.30 pm Agricultural Science 3 (Alternative to Practical Work) 3.00 pm – 4.30 pm Tuesday, 22nd January, 2019 Agricultural Science 2 (Essay) Agricultural Science 1 (Objective) 9.30 am – 11.40 am 11.40…

  • GRP JV Trains 275 youths in Modern Farming Techniques

    No fewer than 275 youths from the four states in the Niger Delta region have been trained on modern techniques in agriculture and farming equipment donated to them through its Green River Project Joint Venture (GRP JV). The Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited, Mr Lorenzo Fiorillio, who disclosed this…

  • Hoodlums Disrupt Trader Moni In Ilorin, 7th December, 2018

    Suspected Hoodlums yesterday invaded the Mandate Market in Ilorin, Kwara State, to disrupt the disbursement of money to beneficiaries of the TraderMoni. They scared away petty traders and agents of the scheme. As early as 9am, the suspected hoodlums stormed the Mandate Market, insisting that the TraderMoni scheme cannot be implemented in the market built…

  • Odjegba Divine wins UBA’s 2018 Essay Competition

    Fourteen year old Odjegba Divine Omesiri has emerged winner of the 2018 UBA National Essay Competition, clinching a laptop and an educational grant worth N2 million to study in any African university of her choice. At the grand finale which held recently in Lagos, Divine, a student of the International High School, Delta State, beat…

  • ASUU Strike Update: FG and ASUU To Meet Again on 10th Dec., 2018

    The federal government will again meet with the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) on Monday December 10 by 4pm, over the ongoing nationwide strike. This was disclosed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, in a statement signed by the Director of Press in the Ministry, Samuel Olowookere, in Abuja. The minister…

  • N-Power Monitoring Team Received in Ekiti State on the 6th Dec., 2018

    The monitoring team train is now in Ekiti State, after a mammoth crowd of Npower beneficiaries in Ondo State welcomed the Monitoring team few days ago. According to N-power, the monitoring team went from meeting with N-Power stakeholders to impromptu visit to PPAs, Town-hall meetings with Osun State Beneficiaries and meeting the Executive Governor of…

  • NNPC Speaks On Mass Retrenchment Plans, 6th Dec.

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Wednesday reiterated that there was no mass retrenchment plans in the establishment. Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, gave the assurance at a programme tagged ‘CS Connect’, organised by the Corporate Services Autonomous Business Units (ABU). In a keynote address at the event, Baru charged…

  • ASUU Strike Update: Get Ready For A Prolonged Strike, 6th Dec.

    The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Biodun Ogunyemi has called on the striking lecturers to prepare for a long strike. This was contained in a Bulletin number 5 sent to all members of the union. According to him, the Government is not ready to resolve any of the demands of ASUU.…

  • ASUP To Begin Nationwide Indefinite Strike December 12th, 2018

    The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has declared that it would begin an indefinite strike from December 12. This implies that the polytechnic lecturers will join their university colleagues who have been on strike for a month now. The National President of ASUP, Usman Dutse, said the federal government had failed to meet the…

  • JAMB Moves Sales of UTME Forms To January 2019

    The sale of Forms for the 2019 UTME, organised by JAMB has been moved to January. Remember the board had earlier announced that the sale of JAMB Forms will begin sometime in December. The new January Sales Date was confirmed by the official twitter handle for JAMB.  

  • ASUU Strike Update: Meeting With FG Ends Unresolved, 5th Dec., 2018

    The meeting held on Tuesday Night between ASUU and FG, to end the on-going strike has ended unresolved. This practically means the ASUU strike will continue until further notice. The President of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, had briefed Journalists after the meeting, that both FG and ASUU had failed to reach any decision to end the…

  • NPF Recruitment: Receives 21, 878 Applications in 5 days

    The Police Service Commission (PSC) said it had received 21,878 applications towards the recruitment of 10,000 Constables into the Nigeria Police Force. A statement by the commission’s Head, Press and Public Relations, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, on Tuesday in Abuja, said the applications came five days after the recruitment portal was opened on Friday. Ani said…

  • FRSC 2018 Recruitment: FRSC Speaks on Invitation Letters to Applicants

    The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, on Monday, distanced itself from supposed invitation letters being forwarded to the email boxes of applicants who applied for its 2018 recruitment exercise. FRSC warned applicants against falling victims to fraudulent persons who are out to defraud them. In a statement signed by its Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem,…

  • ASUU Strike Update: FG Implements “No Work, No Pay”, 2nd Dec., 2018

    The Federal Government has implemented “No work, no Pay” rule against the Academic staff Union of Universities (ASUU) who are currently on strike. The FG sent a memo through the National Universties Commission to all Vice Chancellors of the universities across the country directing them to stop the payment of Lecturers. The memo instructed that any attempt to pay the workers’…

  • ASUU Strike Update: Strike May Last for a Prolong Time, 29th Nov.

    The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that the ongoing strike by its members may last for a prolong time as no concrete resolution has been reached in the negotiation with the Federal Government. The president of the union, Biodun Ogunyemi called on parents and students to show understanding and solidarity with the union as…

  • New Salary Structure for Nigeria Police Force (NPF)

    President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an enhanced salary structure for the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) for effective policing of the country. The approval was announced during an audience in State House, Abuja with members of the Nigeria Police Service Commission (NPC) and the leadership of the Police Force led by the Inspector General of Police,…

  • JAMB Announces Date For 2019 UTME Registration, December, 2018

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that the registration date for the 2019 JAMB UTME will be in December, 2018. The Head of Media of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, announced this while addressing newsmen during the conduct of promotion exercise for the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), at the board’s Computer Based Test (CBT)…

  • N-Power Invites Beneficiaries – Made In Nigeria SMS Conference 30th Nov

    N-Power Is Inviting Beneficiaries To Made In Nigeria SMS Conference & Exhibition Lagos – 30th November 2018 N-Power has announced that they will be at the Made in Nigeria conference Lagos on Friday, November 30th and are inviting beneficiaries to the event. According to N-power be sure to check out the N-Power stand at the…

  • IPDI Alleges Marginalisation in PTI Recruitment 2018

    IJAW Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, yesterday, alleged marginalisation of Ijaw people in the recent junior staff recruitment exercise at the Petroleum Training Institute, PTI, Warri. The rights group in a petition by the National President and Director of Communication, Austin Ozobo and Timi Ogbobiri respectively, addressed to the Principal, PTI, Prof Sunny Iyuke, said: “It…

  • Nigeria’s Unemployment Level is Beyond Crisis Levels

    There has been one single promise that has dominated the election manifestos of Nigeria’s presidential candidates as they seek to lure the support of the country’s voters ahead of polls in February: jobs, jobs and more jobs. This has also been the one issue that has consumed Immaculate Uba, who lost her bank job two…