February 2020

Nigeria Reduces Visa Application Fee For US Citizens

February 7, 2020 8:53 am

The Federal Government of Nigeria has slashed visa application charges for citizens of the United States from $180 to $160.

NAN reports that this was contained in a memo marked NIS/HQ/CGI/806/7 and addressed to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The old amount comprised $160 as visa fee and $20 as “processing and expedient fees.”

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Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, said the reduction followed a review of the visa reciprocity fee slammed on Nigeria last August.

The decision is one of the four taken against Africa’s

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IPPIS

IPPIS : We’ll Stop Work If FG Stops Our Salary

February 7, 2020 8:52 am

National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Biodun Ogunyemi, has said the union would stop work should the Federal Government halt the payment of salaries of  members over issues pertaining to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

Ogunyemi stated this in Nsukka, yesterday, at a press briefing after addressing ASUU members at the  University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).

He said he was in UNN to brief, interact and share ideas with members on  recent developments in the union waring that public universities would lose their autonomy if they were enrolled in IPPIS.

“ASUU will continue to say …

ECOWAS

S’Leone Dragged To ECOWAS Court Over Missing Ebola Funds

February 7, 2020 8:49 am

The Sierra Leonian government has been dragged before the ECOWAS Community Court in Abuja over allegation it mismanaged millions of United States Dollars donated to fight the deadly Ebola virus, which killed about 4,000 people the country.

The plaintiffs, a non-governmental organisation – Centre for Accountability and the Rule of Law, and two nurses affected by the virus while giving treatment to affected people, Hawa Jalloh and Fatamata Sesay, had claimed that after Ebola arrived in Sierra Leone in 2014, the government mismanaged and lost millions of US dollars of financial resources earmarked specifically for combating the disease.

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NECO

52% Fail English, Mathematics As NECO Releases Results

February 7, 2020 8:48 am

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released its November/December Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) with 33,576 candidates, representing 48.68 per cent, scoring credits in both English and Mathematics for 2019, while 52 per cent failed the two subjects.

NECO’s Acting Registrar, Mr. Abubakar Mohammed Gana, made this known in a statement released yesterday.

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According to the acting registrar, 70,140 candidates registered for the examination.

He further stated that 50,057 candidates, representing 72.57 per cent of the total, got five credits and above irrespective of English and Mathematics in NECO.

Gana, in the …

Windows 7

Nigerian Govt Warns Citizens On Use Of MS Windows 7

February 7, 2020 8:45 am

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has advised users of Microsoft Windows 7 to take steps to protect their data.

This was contained in a statement of Friday by Mukhtar Sadiq, his Technical Assistant.

It said with the official End of Support (EoS) of the Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System (OS) which came into effect on 14th January 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide technical support and security or software updates for the platform.

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“Systems running on Windows 7 OS will continue to work, however, they will be progressively more

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House Of Reps Takes Action Against Trump After Acquittal

February 7, 2020 8:44 am

The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution seeking to end America’s support for the Saudi-United Arab Emirate war in Yemen.

This was passed by 241-177 vote at the House and will now go to the Senate where lawmakers of both the Democratic and Republican will decide its final fate.

This is the first major action against President Donald Trump’s administration by the House after the Senate acquit him on the impeachment trial on Wednesday.

A similar bill that was passed in December 2019 by the Senate died when Congress adjourned for the year.

Democratic lawmaker, Jim McGovern, while

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DSS Invites Na’abba After Blasting Buhari Over Insecurity

DSS Speaks On Terrorists Movement In Abuja, Other States

February 7, 2020 8:43 am

The Department of State Services (DSS) on Friday debunked reports of movement of terrorists into the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other states in Nigeria.

DSS also said the claim that luxury buses of three major transport companies were hijacked on the Lokoja-Okene road was an ethnic agenda.

The Police had earlier dismissed circulating information that GUO, Ezenwata and Young Shall Grow vehicles were hijacked by bandits.

The spokesman, Peter Afunanya, in a statement said the alert on Boko Haram movement was fake and has been in circulation since 2013 “when it was first created by mischief makers whose handiwork

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NEMA

NEMA Receives 161 Nigerians From Libya

February 7, 2020 6:00 am

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received another batch of 161 stranded Nigerians from Mtiga in Libya.

The acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, NEMA, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, received the returnees on Thursday night in Lagos.

Farinloye said that the Nigerians arrived the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, late on Thursday night.

According to him, the returnees were brought via Al Buraq Air Boeing 737 aircraft with flight number UZ 189 and registration number 5A-DMG.

He said that the Nigerians were brought by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and European Union on the platform of

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Senate Raises The Alarm As Strange Epidemic Kills 15

February 7, 2020 5:59 am

The Senate Thursday raised the alarm over the likely outbreak of a “strange epidemic” in Oye-Obi Local Government Area of Benue State.

Consequently, the upper chamber, urged the Federal Ministry of Health to urgently mobilise focal persons to the area to investigate and ascertain the nature of the disease which has allegedly claimed 15 lives.

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The Senate also called on the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to promptly put up surveillance to contain the disease, see to the treatment of victims and protect others from being infected. The resolutions of …

Dangote Refinery, Others Threaten Existing Plants – OPEC

OPEC Committee Recommends Fresh 600,000bpd Oil Output Cut

February 7, 2020 5:58 am

With crude oil prices shedding over $11 per barrel this year to $55, thus alarming the producers, a panel set up by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies have recommended a provisional cut of 600,000 barrels per day in oil supply to the international market, in response to the Coronavirus outbreak, which has reduced the demand.

Reuters reported that Thursday’s recommendation of the technical panel of the cartel and its allies, better known as OPEC+, to stabilise the oil market, will however await Russia’s final approval.

The Joint Technical Committee (JTC) is not a decision-making body …

First Bank

First Bank To Partner Osun In Mining

February 7, 2020 5:57 am

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of First Bank Nigeria Plc, Mr. Adesola Kazeem Adeduntan, has pledged that the bank will support and partner Osun State in mining in order to create more employment opportunities and to help diversify the economy of the State.

Adeduntan made this known at a meeting between the First Bank of Nigeria team and the Governor of Osun State, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola, at the Governor’s Office in Osogbo yesterday. He expressed the bank’s gratitude to the governor and the state for the conducive business environment the bank has enjoyed over the years.

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Lassa Fever Now In 27 States, Says Osagie Ehanire

February 7, 2020 5:56 am

Minister for Health Dr. Osagie Ehanire, Thursday said the federal government has guaranteed the provision of the Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) to operate 24 hours full service.

The minister stated this yesterday in Abuja when he declared open a two-day meeting with commissioners for health from the 36 states of the federation organised by the Health Department of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).

He also stated that progress is being achieved in the production of vaccines for Lassa fever, explaining that the epidemic is now in 27 states.

It was gathered that the objective of the meeting was to …

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