Location : Abuja, NIGERIA Application Deadline : 02-Jan-12 Type of Contract : FTA International Post Level : P-3 Languages Required : English Starting Date (date when the selected candidate is expected to start): 13-Feb-2012 Duration of Initial Contract : 1 year, with possibility of extension Background The duties and responsibilities of the Field Security Specialist [...]
Cement Company of Northern Nigeria Plc (CCNN) is a public quoted company engaged in the manufacture and sale of Portland Cement. It factory is located at Kalambaina on the outskirts of Sokoto town. We are looking for experienced and fresh qualified candidates to fill-in the following positions: ELECTRICAL ENGINEER (1Position) QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE A good [...]
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) helps its partners in the United Nations System meet the world’s needs for building peace, recovering from disaster, and creating sustainable development. UNOPS is known for its ability to implement complex projects in all types of environments around the globe. In Nigeria, UNOPS is implementing The Niger Delta [...]
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) helps its partners in the United Nations System meet the world’s needs for building peace, recovering from disaster, and creating sustainable development. UNOPS is known for its ability to implement complex projects in all types of environments around the globe. In Nigeria, UNOPS is implementing The Niger Delta [...]
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) helps its partners in the United Nations System meet the world’s needs for building peace, recovering from disaster, and creating sustainable development. UNOPS is known for its ability to implement complex projects in all types of environments around the globe. In Nigeria, UNOPS is implementing The Niger Delta [...]
Reddington Hospital seeks to add experienced and professional acclaimed individuals to their team. Qualified applicants are hereby invited for the following vacant positions Job Title: Wellness and Fitness Coordinator (Ref. 011) Location: Lagos Responsibilities Directing the daily operations of the fitness department, administering personal training, athletic training, group fitness, and other health, wellness, and fitness [...]
At least 61 people have been killed during several days of fighting in northeast Nigeria between security forces and a radical Muslim sect responsible for a series of increasingly bloody attacks in Africa’s most populous nation, authorities said Saturday. The fighting between suspected members of the sect known as Boko Haram and a joint task [...]
The Court of Appeal in Enugu yesterday nullified the election of Senator Andy Uba representing Anambra South Senatorial Zone. However, contrary to the prayers sought by Hon Chuma Nzeribe of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) that who insituted the case that he be declared winner of the said election, and ordered fresh election to [...]
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has warned the country’s players against wearing ear-rings as he moved to impose a new and purposeful identity on the team. “If we were Indians, I would understand, because it’s part of their culture but wearing ear rings by men is totally alien to Nigerian culture and no player is permitted [...]
The National working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA ) on Thursday in Abuja announced a 14-man committee for the burial of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegu-Ojukwu. A statement, signed by Chief Ifeanacho Oguejofor, the party’s National Director of Publicity, stated that the committee would liaise with the family and the national burial committee [...]
Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has presented a budget estimate of over N98 billion to the Ekiti State House of Assembly for the 2012 fiscal year. Tagged “Budget of Delivery”, it proposed over N53 billion for capital projects while over N45 billion is earmarked for recurrent expenditure. The infrastructure takes the lion’s share of over [...]
Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has slammed a N2bn libel suit against Media Techniques Limited, publishers of City People magazine over a scandalous story it published last October alleging that the younger sister of his (Governor’s) wife had delivered a baby for him. The Governor in suit No E/418/2011 filed by his lawyers at [...]
The West African Examination Council has withheld the results of 39, 066 of the 404,863 candidates that sat for the Nov/Dec. 2011 West African School Certificate Examination (WASC). Dr Iyi Uwadiae, the Head of National Office of the Council, disclosed this at a news conference in Lagos on Wednesday. Uwadiae attributed the development to the [...]
Special squad to combat Boko Haram – The Nigerian Army has established a special squad to combat the Islamic sect Boko Haram, which is behind the spate of bombings that have left hundreds dead, mostly in northern Nigeria, in recent times. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, announced the establishment of the special [...]
Two Dutch TV hosts cooked and ate each other’s flesh, sampling fried buttock and fried belly, and pushing the boundaries of bad taste on Wednesday night in a program aired by Dutch broadcaster BNN. A butcher advised presenters Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno on which were the best cuts of human flesh, and a surgeon [...]
Royal Dutch Shell said on Thursday that its giant 200,000 barrel per day (bpd) deepwater Bonga facility is now shut, with no planned restart date, after an oil leak occurred on Tuesday while a tanker was being loaded. The field pumps around 10 percent of crude oil from Africa’s top exporter. “It’s too early to [...]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it has recruited 11,000 ad hoc staff to conduct the Adamawa governorship election slated for Jan.14, 2012. The State Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, Malam Kassim Gaidam, disclosed this in Yola on Thursday. According to him, non-sensitive election materials were already in place. “Ahead of the Jan.14, 2012 [...]
Executive Secretary of Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Alhaji Adamu Ismaila, was yesterday arrested over alleged failure of the authority to remit tax said to be in excess of N28 billion from 2006 to 2011. Alhaji Ismaila assumed office three weeks ago, meaning the bulk of the non-remittance was done by his predecessors. The secretary, [...]
ORGANISED labour rose from their meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Abuja, affirming readiness to ground the nation’s economic activities with an indefinite strike if the Federal Government goes ahead to remove the controversial fuel subsidy planned for next year. Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, who spoke to The Moment on [...]
Eagles remained rooted on the 43rd position in the year ending of the FIFA world rankings. Cote’d Ivoire unmoved from its previous 16 position remained the top team in Africa, with Ghana, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria and Senegal making the top five in the continent. Nigeria and Egypt are the out of the 2012 Nations Cup. [...]
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan yesterday dismissed the appeal case filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against the victory of the governor, Ibikunle Amosun of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the April 2011 governorship election in Ogun State. In a a statement signed by the governor’s media aide,Funmi Wakama and [...]
More than 40 per cent of the 404,863 candidates who wrote the 2011 November/December West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), scored credit passes in five subjects, including English and mathematics. Head of the Nigerian National Office, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, who announced the results yesterday at the WAEC Headquarters in Yaba, Lagos, said 176,848 candidates, [...]
A Nigerian air hostess with Arik Air, Chinwendu Uwakaonyenma Ogbonnaya, has been arrested for attempting to smuggle four kilogram of cocaine into Britain, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) said on Monday. The 30 year-old hostess, who arrived at the Heathrow Terminal 4 on an Arik Air flight from Lagos, was arrested on Sunday following the [...]
THE Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Mr. Ikechukwu Nwankwo, representing Ebonyi North West constituency in the state was, Wednesday, impeached over alleged fraudulent activities, incompetence and gross abuse of office. This came as result of the series of petitions and complaints that had emanated from the House and some relevant stakeholders in the [...]
SUSPECTED armed robbers, on Tuesday, stormed three banks in Okene, Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State, and carted away millions of naira, leaving over 10 people dead. The banks were UBA, Intercontinetal Bank and GTB. Sources disclosed to the Nigerian Tribune that 10 people were killed at different areas during the robbery, which left [...]
