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EFCC begins probe of ₦8.7 billion fraud in JAMB

April 20, 2019 9:38 pm

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched into a probe of the cash inflow and outflow of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) between 2010 and 2016.

The anti-graft agency wants to get to the root of an alleged N8.7billion fraud in the board.

Fifteen suspects have already been shortlisted for trial.

Among them are some zonal heads and state coordinators. One of the suspects facing trial is a female accountant, Philomena Chise, whose sensational claim that  a snake swallowed N36million raked in from the sales of e-facility cards rocked the nation.

Chise later told EFCC operatives …

Aisha Buhari to establish a university named after husband

April 20, 2019 9:21 pm

Mrs Aisha Buhari, wife of the President, yesterday announced her plan to establish a private university to be known as  Muhammadu Buhari University.

Mrs. Buhari, speaking at a town hall meeting in Yola organized by her in collaboration with some natives of Adamawa State said the planned institution would be established in collaboration with partners from Sudan and Qatar.

But she did not reveal when or where it would be sited.

Aisha who lamented the challenges facing education and various sectors in the state, called for active support of the state indigenes in complementing government efforts.

She called for the
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The two untouchable rogues in Nigeria

April 20, 2019 1:37 pm

By MarkAnthony Nze

 

These two men here, Jubril Al-Sudani from Sudan, Late President Muhammadu Buhari’s impostor and Yemi Osinbajo, a so-called pastor, whose stock-in-trade has become telling lies with every fibre of his soul, and one wonders if he still remembers humanity as an ordained minister of the gospel, are the two most corrupt persons in Nigeria presently yet they have the temerity to be talking about their ‘integrity’ to their gullible and daft followers.

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Why Biafra fell – Prof. Uzodinma Nwala

April 20, 2019 1:24 pm

“We thought that the defeat of Biafra was God telling us no, you don’t need Biafra; you need Nigeria. But that was a wrong meaning to what happened. We lost the war, not because God wanted us to go back to Nigeria.

We lost the war for obvious reasons, which I found when I went to New York in 1973 for my post-graduate work. I spent days and time at the United Nations and I was searching for an answer to the question, why Biafra fell. At the end of those days of working in the United Nations and other …

NAFDAC raises alarm over prevalence of drug addicts

April 20, 2019 12:02 pm
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder due to what it described as the high rate and prevalence of drug addicts across the country.The agency said it was shocking that Nigeria was leading even beyond the international coverage of drug abuse globally.The Director, Public Affairs, NAFDAC, Dr Abubakar Jimoh, said this on Saturday while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin.

Jimoh said the agency has an average conservative estimate of about 15 million people who are on drugs and 3 million of them could be conveniently called

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Woman delivered of five babies

April 19, 2019 9:32 pm

A 42-year-old woman has given birth to five babies (quintuplets) at Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja, Kogi, after 18 years of barrenness.

Mrs Uchenna Okeigbo and her kids are in good condition, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Okeigbo, a native of Olokoro Amangbo Community, Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State , gave birth to three boys and two girls on Wednesday, April 17 through Caesarean Section.

She was full of praises to God  for the rare gift of five babies at a go after waiting for 18 years.

”It is not easy to have five
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How reckless driver caused Ibadan tanker fire

April 19, 2019 8:40 pm

Details emerged yesterday about  how a reckless car driver triggered the fire incident  that claimed the lives of  three people, three cars and more than 10 motorcycles in Ibadan during the week.

Also destroyed in  the fire incident were kiosks belonging to a motorcycle seller and a lottery operator.  The havoc wreaked by the incident according to eyewitnesses  would have been worse but for the quick removal of vehicles in a  nearby car wash. The  operator was said to have quickly driven the vehicles to safety when the fuel started  spilling from the tanker.

The 33,000litres fuel laden tanker going …

Nigeria under siege, needs prayers – PDP Chairman laments

April 19, 2019 8:25 pm

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, on Friday urged Nigerians to use this period of Easter to intensify their prayers for Nigeria because the country was under siege.

Secondus, in his Easter message to Nigerians, said only prayers can save Nigeria from the current siege.

In a statement signed and forwarded to DAILY POST by his Media Aide, Ike Abonyi, Prince Secondus also urged Nigerians not to allow the prevailing hardship in the country and the unjust outcome of 2019 election affect their spirit of love, brotherliness and peaceful co-existence.

The National Chairman said
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Onnoghen refuses CCT conviction, heads to Court of Appeal

April 19, 2019 11:22 am

The former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, came out smoking yesterday after the Code of Conduct Tribunal convicted him for false assets declaration.

The tribunal came down heavily on the embattled judicial chief. It relieved him of his top judicial position, barred him from holding public office for 10 years and stripped him of all the funds in the five accounts he was found to have concealed.

“We shall avail ourselves of all the processes and the hierarchy of the judiciary,” Onnoghen’s lead counsel, Mr. Okon Efut SAN, said angrily in reaction to the judgment of the tribunal …

60 million Nigerians can’t read and write – FG

April 18, 2019 8:10 pm

Sonny Echono, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, says nearly 60 million Nigerians are illiterates.

Echono made this known on Thursday at the Federal Government College Otobi, during the inauguration of a pilot Literacy Centre for the North Central Geo-Political Zone.

The permanent secretary expressed regret that the illiteracy rate among the youths and adults was high.
According to him, Literacy Centres to be established in 104 Federal Government Colleges (FGCs) are aimed at reducing the high rate of illiteracy at the low cadre staff of the institutions, stressing that the Federal Government designed the literacy programme to cater for …

Jubril, Buhari’s impostor signs ₦30,000 Minimum Wage Bill

April 18, 2019 7:47 pm

Jubril Al-Sudani, being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria by the All Progressives Congress party, has signed the long awaited National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Bill into Law.

The Nation reports and calls him President Muhammadu Buhari

All workers, excluding those on the payroll of organisations with less than 25 workers, are to benefit from the new minimum wage regime, which took immediate effect.

The bill, which approved N30, 000 as the monthly wage for the least paid worker, was passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on March 19, immediately after the National Assembly resumed from recess. …

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