Management of Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, has distanced itself from the fraudulent advertisements for the sale of fake FUTO Post-UTME screening forms on the internet and elsewhere. Registrar, Mr. Charles Omeire, said in a statement in Owerri, ”FUTO will soon publish guidelines for the screening for the 2011 Post-UTME and direct entry candidates [...]
Several people were wounded in a bomb blast in Maiduguri on Saturday, a city in remote northeastern Nigeria which has been plagued by almost daily attacks from a radical Islamist sect. “Three soldiers have been injured in the Saturday evening bomb blast that occurred close to the Palace of the Shehu of Borno,” Hassan Mohammed, [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan, in company of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Tuesday, inspected shipwrecks at the Lekki Beach in Eti Osa Local Government Area and their impact on coastal erosion. Jonathan, who alighted from a Nigerian Air Force Chopper with registration number NAF 541 on the beach accompanied by Fashola and the Lagos State [...]
Dr. Maryam Ali, wife of the former National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party has again made an open show of her hot temper. This time, the Director of the FCT Department of Control was the one at the receiving end of Mrs. Ali’s burning rage. The Director, Yahaya Yusuf found himself within the range [...]
The National Identity Management Commission has discovered that 4,000 out of the 10,300 staff on its payroll are ghost workers. The discovery was made after the commission’s recently concluded biometric data capture exercise. The Director-General, NIMC, Mr. Chris Onyemenam expressed surprise that 4,000 out of the 10,300 employees of the commission were actually ghost workers. [...]
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KLEUR Charity Fashion Show 2011 Date: Sunday 24th July 2011 Venue: Ladi Kwali Centre, Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Abuja Ticket Prices: Regular – N3,000 | VIP – N5,000 | Tables – N20,000 After Party: Rozzay Lounge, 44 Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja For ticket enquiries or further information about the show, contact MGF members: Aisha H. [...]
90 Minutes Speaker Series Date: Saturday 23rd July,2011 Time: 12.30pm Venue: The Life House, 33 Sinari Daranijo Street, Off Younis Bashorun Street, Off Ajose Adeogun, Victoria Island (Younis Bashorun Street is the next right after Zenith Heights ) Contact: Call Gbolahan Fagbure 08033153429 | gfagbure@gmail.com To post your events send in above format to paul@infomister.com. [...]
GUNS boomed again in Maiduguri last night. The exchange of gunfire between the military Joint Task Force (JTF) and Boko Haram (Western education is evil) members in Gwanje One in the beleaguered Borno State capital, followed an explosion around 9.am at London Chiki ward. JTF spokesman Lt.-Col. Hassan Mohammed said the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) [...]
THE Nigerian Under-20 men’s national team, the Flying Eagles, fell 2-0 to their Portuguese counterparts in continuation of the Copa de la Republica in Panama City on Wednesday. This was the third game in succession that the Nigerians have failed to score and coach John Obuh admitted that it was becoming a cause for serious [...]
The Nigeria Football Federation has dispatched to world football-governing body Fifa, a list of 30 players as Nigeria’s provisional list for the Fifa Under-20 World Cup taking place in Colombia from 29th July – 20th August, 2011. The list includes 17 of the 19 who were part of the triumph at the African Youth Championship [...]
The University of Ilorin invites Candidates who have applied for admission into the Undergraduate degree programmes of the University for the 2011/2012 academic session to upload the required information for the Screening Exercise between Monday 18th July, 2011 and Saturday, 6th August 2011. Any awaiting results must be uploaded on or before Monday 15th August, [...]
A security detail attached to Governor Theodore Orji’s convoy, Corporal Umoru Mohammed, yesterday killed his colleague, Corporal Clement Amachi at Government House in Umuahia. Mohammed was alleged to have shot his colleague in the head. Musa allegedly told his friend: “You people think that I am a foolish man, one day I will tell you [...]
Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia on Tuesday made public his team list for the national team’s August 9 friendly match against Ghana’s Black Stars. The game which comes up at London’s Vicarage Road, home ground of English Championship outfit Watford, will serve as a preparatory game for the Super Eagles ahead of September’s 2012 Africa [...]
The nationwide strike scheduled to begin in Nigeria on Wednesday has been suspended after an agreement was reached by representatives of the Federal Government and those of the labour unions. Owei Lakemfa, the Acting Secretary General of the Nigerian Labour Congress made this known. According to him, “we have suspended the strike scheduled for Wednesday. [...]
British Prime Minister, David Cameron was in Nigeria on Tuesday as part of his working visit to Africa. He had earlier gone to South Africa where he held talks with President Jacob Zuma. The British Prime Minister flew in to Lagos at the head of a business delegation to call on Africans to use trade, [...]
As the crisis in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, continues unabated, two states in the South West, Lagos and Ondo, yesterday commenced the evacuation of thier indigines from the state. While Lagos evacuated over 200 residents who are students of the University of Maiduguri, Ondo evacuated 55 people comprising 50 students and five corps members. [...]
TWO thousand workers employed by the immediate past administration in Ogun State were sacked, on Wednesday, by the administration of Senator Ibikunle Amosun. But, the government, in a reaction by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Taiwo Adeoluwa, denied the sack, saying that the workers were directed to re-apply before they could be absorbed [...]
Authorities say three people have died in a van blast in Nigeria’s restive northeast. Maj. Gen. Jack Nwachukwu Nwaogbo told The Associated Press on Tuesday that an explosive went off under the van Monday evening as its driver slowed down at a military checkpoint in the city of Maiduguri. He said the three victims had [...]
Authorities say 17 people died during a military and police operation against radical sect members in the country’s restive northeast. told journalists in the city of Maiduguri Sunday that six people and 11 suspected members of a Muslim sect locally known as Boko Haram were killed during an operation on Saturday evening. He declined to [...]
Below is a list of cut off marks for some Nigerian universities. This list would let you know if you would be eligible to write the post UTME exams of your selected school. This list is tentative, pending the official release of the post UTME details of the various schools. – Federal University of Technology [...]
South Sudan’s Salva Kiir was sworn in as president of the world’s newest nation on Saturday during a ceremony formally declaring independence from Sudan in the north. “I … do hereby swear by Almighty God that as the president of the Republic of South Sudan I shall be faithful and bear true allegiance to the [...]
The current disagreement between workers and the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress over the yet-to-be-resolved minimum wage has led to the suspension of the leaders by their followers. The alleged suspension followed the failure of the leaders to appear at the union secretariat at Agodi Gate to explain the latest [...]
A statement from the official Chelsea website read thus: Chelsea Football club is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Emenalo as the club’s new technical director. While supporting the work of the first team manager, Michael will lead the club’s international and domestic scouting network, and will assist in driving the technical programmes of [...]
Authorities in Maiduguri city have banned motorbikes in a bid to curb almost daily attacks by gunmen from an Islamist sect, leaving streets deserted on Friday as markets shut and workers stayed at home. Radical sect Boko Haram, which says it wants a wider application of sharia Islamic law across Africa’s most populous nation, has [...]
