archiveJanuary 9, 2018

...Leaders back restructuring The Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson, has called on all Ijaws to support the ongoing reconciliation efforts to strengthen the two umbrella organizations in the Ijaw ethnic nationality, the Ijaw National Congress and the Ijaw Youth Council. Dickson stressed that both organizations were critical to...

The World Bank has projected that Nigeria economy would grow around 2.5 percent in this fiscal year, saying that the African biggest economy will benefit from improved commodity prices, investment, and trade. The Bank in its January 2018 Global Economic Prospect report launched on Tuesday in Washington DC also predicted...

  The National Common Entrance Examination Board has published the entrance exam cut-off mark of each state of the federation for the 2017/18 session. The cut-off is for entrance into federal government colleges across the country. Below is the NCEE cut-off marks of each state in the federation. Male    Female...

  The Nigerian Equities market which has recorded only one negative NSE ASI close for the year 2018 so far closed Tuesday’s trading session in the green zone again. The bourse surpassed the 40,000 mark since 10th September 2014 with an ASI close of 40,362.97 points today, representing a daily...

The National Examination Council (NECO) on Tuesday made history by releasing the results of the November/December Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) it conducted between November and December 2017 in a record 38 days. In the past, NECO had released the results 80 days after the conduct of the last paper,...

  ….Moves to block revenue leakages by contractors …To undertake compliance spot checks on MDAs The Federal Government has ordered vendors of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to display their Tax Identification Numbers (TINs) on their invoices before payments are effected by the MDAs. The Federal Government’s directive was handed...

  The Presidency has spoken of efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to end incessant killings in Benue and its neighbouring states, denying the president is to blame for the farmer/herders crises that have cost hundreds of lives in the last two years. Buhari has been accused of condoning the killings...

  Nigeria’s foreign reserves hit $40.4 billion as of January 5, an increase of roughly $1 billion from December, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said on Monday. The bank said the rise reflected its “strategy to effectively manage forex demand by various sectors of the economy”, stressing restrictions on...

    BEING THE OPENING REMARKS OF PROF. IS-HAQ OLANREWAJU OLOYEDE, OFR, FNAL REGISTRAR, JOINT ADMISSIONS AND MATRICULATION BOARD (JAMB), AT THE STAKEHOLDERS’ MEETING HELD AT THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE, ABUJA ON TUESDAY, 9 JANUARY, 2018 PROTOCOLS CONSOLIDATING THE GAINS, PUSHING THE FRONTIERS INTRODUCTION I heartily welcome you all to...

  The Bayelsa State Government has described the recent killing in Edegbene community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, as barbaric, lawless and totally condemnable. A statement issued in Yenagoa by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Security Matters, Dr. Boma Spero Jack, described the attack as...