The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) said on Monday in Abuja that Nigerians living along the coastal areas of the country would experience more rains before the year runs out. Dr Anthony Anuforom, NIMET’s Director-General, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said that the agency could not predict if [...]
EXCEPT the Federal Government honours the agreement it signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), another strike is imminent in the nation’s ivory tower. ASUU is accusing the governments of ‘foot-gagging’ on the implementation of 2009 agreement and exhausting the union’s patience. It urged Nigerians not to hold it responsible in the event [...]
High state protocol as well as guest-visitor etiquette took the backseat yesterday as Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola traded words with Vice President Mohamed Namadi Sambo, who was paying a visit to the state capital, Osogbo. The bone of contention was the arrest by the police of some members of the Action Congress of Nigeria [...]
Protesting students of the Lagos State University (LASU) on Thursday vandalised some properties in the Lagos State House of Assembly while their leaders and other stakeholders were meeting at the complex. Reports say two security doors, the barrier to the back gate of the assembly complex, windscreens of two cars and flowers were among the [...]
Chevron Nigeria Limited, in collaboration with its Joint Venture partner, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), is offering a number of University Scholarship Awards to suitably qualified Nigerian students. E-applications are invited from full-time SECOND YEAR (200 LEVEL) degree students of the under-listed courses, in Nigerian Universities: 1. Accountancy 2. Agricultural Engineering/Agricultural Science 3. Architecture [...]
Provisional admission has been offered to the underlisted candidates who took part in the Post UTME held on Wednesday 14th of September, 2011 into Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH), Okitipupa on a full time basis for the 2011/2012 Academic Session. This admission could be withdrawn anytime it is discovered that a candidate [...]
In our bid to bring you the latest Scholarship Opportunities for Nigerian Students here is the information on PTDF Overseas Scholarship Scheme for Masters and Ph.D students in Nigeria. How to Apply It is vital that you read and understand all of the information for your chosen course of study before you apply. When you [...]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has recovered 200 houses in the United Arab Emirates, United States and South Africa belonging to the chief executive officers of the failed commercial banks in Nigeria. Making the disclosure Wednesday at an interactive session with members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, CBN [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN has won by landslide the Chairmanship and Councillorship elections held in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria at the weekend. In the results announced officially by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC this evening, the ACN won all the Chairmanship seats in the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council [...]
A Nigerian Islamist sect said it killed a state television cameraman because it had evidence that he was an informant for the security services, and the group warned it would kill anyone else who “steps on our toes”. Alhaji Zakariya Isa, a journalist working for the government-owned Nigerian Television Authority, was killed on Saturday by [...]
Killed Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s eldest and favourite son, Saif al-Islam, has been captured close to Tripoli after suffering critical injuries in a bombing raid, officials have claimed. According to the rebels, Gaddafi’s once heir-apparent son fled Sirte, where his father and brother Mutassim was killed yesterday, and was captured in Zlitan, 99 miles [...]
Moammar Gadhafi’s blood-streaked body was stashed in a commercial freezer at a shopping center Friday as Libyans tried to keep it away from angry crowds as they figure out where to bury the longtime dictator. The makeshift provisions for the corpse reflected the disorganization and confusion that has surrounded Gadhafi’s death. Accounts of how he [...]
Ahead of tomorrow’s local government polls in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, at least 31,000 policemen, civil defence and other para-military officers have been drafted to provide security during the election. Leading political parties will field candidates for the chairmanship and councillorship positions in the 20 local governments and the 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs in [...]
Chevron Nigeria Limited, in collaboration with its Joint Venture partner, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), is offering a number of University Scholarship Awards to suitably qualified Nigerian students. E-applications are invited from full-time SECOND YEAR (200 LEVEL) degree students of the under-listed courses, in Nigerian Universities: 1. Accountancy 2. Agricultural Engineering/Agricultural Science 3. Architecture [...]
More than N200 million worth of sub-standard tyres were seized yesterday by the Standard Organisation of Nigeria(SON) at the Odua market in the matori , Mushin, Lagos. The seizure, which caught the dealers unaware led to the arrest of the leaders of the market and its closure. Speaking to newsmen during the raiding, the Director-General, [...]
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried according to Muslim rites within 24 hours, a Libyan transitional government force commander said on Friday, and witnesses said the body bore a visible bullet hole in the head. “He will get his right like any Muslim, his body will be washed and treated with dignity. I [...]
The Association of Vice-chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVNU) has written to the Senate on the legality of the post-Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examinations. The chairman of the association and Vice-chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Ishaq Olanrewaju Oloyede disclosed this yesterday while addressing newsmen on the 27th convocation ceremony of the university. According to him, [...]
The former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel who is facing a 16 count charge of stealing and diversion of public funds preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in an Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta was yesterday admitted to bail. Ruling on the bail application, Justice Olanrenwaju Mabekoje said there [...]
Amid global mourning for the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, California Governor Jerry Brown has declared today as ” Steve Jobs Day” in the southern US state. “In his life and work, Steve Jobs embodied the California dream,” Brown said in a statement. “To call him influential would be an understatement… His innovations transformed [...]
Nigeria’s upper legislature has described as “illegal” the post University Matriculation Examination conducted by Universities nationwide. At the plenary session on Thursday, a motion by Senator Heineken Lokpobiri prompted the Senate to commission its Committee on Education to undertake a comprehensive investigation into the activities of those universities who indulge in such illegality. Lokpobiri said [...]