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Foremost African financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, is set to hold the maiden edition of the GTCrea8 Convention for Undergraduates, on Wednesday, March 8, 2018 at the University of Lagos, Akoka. The one day convention, which is free to attend, will bring together undergraduates from universities across Nigeria who are passionate about technology, digital…

The Nigerian Airforce has given updates on Batch B 2017/2018 training of successful candidates. The force in a statement on its verified Twitter page said the training exercise will commence on 15th march, 2018. The statement reads, ”This is to notify the general public that the successful candidates of 2017 Batch B NAF Recruitment Exercise…

The Nigerian Navy wishes to inform candidates who participated in the 2017 Nigerian Navy Recruitment Interview held in Lagos from 25th August to 28th September 2017 that the list successful candidates has been released online. Successful candidates are to report for training in 2 different batches at the Nigerian Navy Basic Training School Onne, Rivers…

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday granted four applications by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, regarding properties purchased by Drexel Tech Nigeria Limited with proceeds of the ill-fated recruitment exercise into the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, which claimed the lives of over 20 applicants in…

National Youth Service Corps, NYSC – This is to inform all prospective corps members, i.e. Nigerians who have graduated from Universities and Mono/Polytechnics both at home and abroad that the NYSC Online registration portal will be opened from Monday, 26th March – Sunday, 8th April, 2018 to enable them register for the 2018 Batch ‘A’…

JAMB has now extended the closing date for purchase of forms, and registration for the 2018 UTME and Direct Entry, till Sunday 11th February, by 12 midnight. This decision was announced by the JAMB Head of Information, after a meeting on Tuesday in Abuja. The Board however warned that there will be no further extension,…

Plateau State Government, Thursday, announced the sack of 747 primary school teachers over basic qualifications. This was just as it also reinstated 141 teachers earlier disengaged from service by the immediate past administration. Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Matthew Sule, who made the revelations during a refresher course for officials in…

Total E&P Nigeria Limited – It has come to our attention that a message purporting to be soliciting applications for employment opportunities in Total E & P Nigeria Limited (“TOTAL”) is being circulated widely on social media.Total E&P Nigeria Limited wishes to advise the general public in unconditional terms that TOTAL and its affiliates do…

The federal government said on Monday that it would today inaugurate what it termed Joint Working Group for the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) Focus Labs in the State House, Abuja to boost economic growth. A statement by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande, said the establishment of the Focus Labs was…

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Nasarawa state Governor, Tanko Al-Makura has disclosed that over 80% of teachers in the state are unqualified for the profession. He said this at the opening ceremony of two days curriculum review for Colleges of Education, at the College of Education, Akwanga in Akwanga local government where he was represented by the state commissioner for…

The NYSC Management wishes to inform prospective Corps members and other stakeholders that the 2017 Batch ‘B’ (Stream II) Orientation course will commence on Tuesday, 16th January, 2018 in only fifteen (15) NYSC Orientation Camps namely; Abia, Bauchi, Benue, Delta, Enugu, Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina, Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto and the FCT.2017 Batch ‘B’…

The Federal Government said on Tuesday that egg production, processing and marketing could create no fewer than one million jobs through its National Egg Production (NEGPRO) Scheme. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, made this known in Abuja at a meeting with the Technical Committee on National Egg Production. Ogbeh expressed…

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has revealed that the Federal Government targets to generate at least 7,500 jobs through the Voluntary Asset Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS). Adeosun stated this in a report on the activities of the ministry in the last two years. According to her, job creation remains one of the spin-offs…

The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman has commenced secret recruitment into the agency, contrary to the Federal Government’s directive that all Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) should halt fresh recruitment till further notice. President Muhammadu Buhari during his presentation of the 2018 Budget to the National Assembly had placed embargo on…

The Nigerian navy has announced the date set for its recruitment test to usher in the many new members into its fold. The Nigerian Navy says the aptitude test for the Direct Short Service Course 25 Enlistment Exercise is scheduled to hold in eight centres across the nation on Dec. 2, Premium Times reports. The…

Aero contractors – Managing Director of Aero contractors, Capt. Ado Sanusi, has pleaded with workers of the airline recently declared redundant, saying the airline will start paying them once the airline returns to normal operations. About half of the 1,300 members of the workforce were affected in the redundancy declaration while they are yet to…

The NYSC Management wishes to inform prospective Corps members and other stakeholders that the 2017 Batch ‘B’ (Stream I) Orientation course will commence on Tuesday, 21st November, 2017.2017 Batch ‘B’ (Steam I) Orientation Course A.) The NYSC Batch ‘B’ Stream I Orientation Course is scheduled to commence in all NYSC Orientation Camps nationwide as follows:Commencement…

Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) – There was mild drama in Kano, yesterday, as some young men, under the aegis of Young Pharmacists Group, stormed Tahir Guest Palace where alleged secret interview for job placement was being conducted by Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, by Human Resource Manager, Bukar Yahaya, for selected applicants. The group, led by…

National Youth Service Corps, NYSC – This is to inform all prospective corps members, i.e. Nigerians who have graduated from Universities and Mono/Polytechnics both at home and abroad that the NYSC Online registration portal will be opened from Tuesday, 24th October- Sunday, 12th November, 2017 to enable them register for the 2017 Batch ‘B’ Mobilisation.The…

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmud Yakub, told the Senate Committee on INEC on Wednesday that the commission would recruit about one million ad hoc members of staff for the conduct of the 2019 general elections.According to him, the ad hoc workers to be deployed for the polls, which will begin…

Members of the House of Representatives warned on Thursday that a nationwide strike by workers over low wages could force the country’s economy back into recession.They urged the Federal Government to consider an increase in wage to N30,000 as the new National Minimum Wage to avert an industrial action by workers. However, seven years after,…

The Kaduna State Government is making good its promise to drop about 22,000 primary school teachers in the state and has begun the process of recruiting 25,000 fresh number of primary school teachers.A notice to that effect has been issued by the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).The notice signed by the executive chairman…

YouWiN! List of Successful Applicants of First Stage of the YouWiN! Connect 2017. YouWiN! Connect is a multimedia based relaunch of the YouWiN! programme of the Federal Ministry of Finance. It aims to support young entrepreneurs as they PLAN, START and GROW their businesses, by providing Enterprise Education as well as access to technical and…

JAMB – At least 23 Nigerian universities have adopted the 120 cut-off mark recently introduced by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) The universities, mostly private, are among the 168 universities in Nigeria whose cut-off marks were released in a document PREMIUM TIMES obtained from JAMB on Friday. The universities that adopted the 120…

The Joint Admissions & Matriculation Board has announced the cut-off marks for Nigeria’s admission processes for the 2017/2018 session, with the general public insisting that it is a step backwards rather than progressive to reduce the cut off mark for admissions into our tertiary institutions: 120 for universities, 100 for polytechnics and monotechnics, and a…

The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, said on Friday in Kano that his office had forwarded a proposal to the Presidency for the recruitment of 155,000 policemen of different cadres into the force within the next five years. Speaking with journalists after paying a condolence visit to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, over the death…