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JAMB busts a syndicate specialised in breaking into intranet site and altering profiles just as Board stopped use of email for UTME and DE.

By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA OVER N10 million meant to be paid to ad-hoc staff of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, as allowance has been hijacked into the accounts of over a dozen fraudsters who gained entry into the internet site of the board. To this end, the board has said the mobile phone would henceforth be the only major requirement for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, and Direct Entry, DE registration processes. Registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, wh...

Views: Visits 27 Fifty one years after the end of the Biafra-Nigeria war, the Igbo nation is being forced to return to the trenches. Igbo people are not warlike, culturally or otherwise. If they were, there would have been empires in the history of the East. Apart from the great ancient Bini Empire, the people of the South East and South-South are historically and culturally republican, not imperialistic. They are peace-loving. War is not a central part of their cosmology, ordinarily. ...

Outgoing Commander, 32 Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army (covering Ekiti and Ondo states), Brig. Gen. RT Usaha (left); Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi and the incoming Commander, Brig. Gen. Yakubu Yahaya, during a visit to Fayemi in Ado-Ekiti…yesterday.  br • Taraba records N6.5b lowest internal revenue • We must take capital importation back to $24b, says Fayemi Lagos State recorded over N398.7 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) on investment inflows from 2019 to 2020, ma...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 5:37 am THE Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has set aside N1bn in its 2021 budget as consultancy fees to be paid to experts that would supervise its roads and bridge projects. The ministry also proposed to spend N1bn this year to provide road signage and other road furniture on federal highways across the country. Apart from these, the ministry set aside N15m for the development of highways design software while N250m was voted for the Recovery of Right...

[FILES] Buhari. Photo: TWITTER/NIGERIAGOVGovernors elected under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have warned that if the alarming drift of Nigeria under the watch of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government continues, the country could become a failed state. According to a statement issued by Kelvin Ebiri, Special Assistant (Media) to Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, the PDP governors expressed deep concern about the deteriorating relations between various ethnic groups in Nigeria. ...

Views: 125 Dangote Sugar Refinery PLC (DSR) has reacted to what it described as an online publication claiming that the company is engaging in price-fixing and is not honestly engaged in any Backward Integration Programme,as claimed. In a statement on Thursday, Dangote Sugar vehemently refuted the allegations and assertions in their entirety.The statement further said the false allegations are geared at tarnishing the good name and brand of Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc and Dangote Industries Lim...

•Dangote Sugar denies involvement in price fixing James Emejo in Abuja Africa’s richest man and Chairman of Dangote Industries Limited, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and the Chairman of Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, Mr. John Coumantaros, have said the establishment of a new sugar refinery plant in the country by BUA Group posed a threat to the attainment of the National Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) as well as sustainability of Nigeria’s local sugar industry. They argued that the country currently has e...

By Femi Bolaji Wives of governors in the 19 Northern states have pledged their support to the newly commissioned rehabilitation centre for drug addicts in Taraba State to ensure it remains functional. Chairperson of the forum and wife to the governor of Niger State, Dr. Aminat Bello, gave the assurance in Jalingo, the state capital when she led her members to the state for their quarterly meeting. The rehabilitation centre which was facilitated by the First Lady of Taraba State, Anna Ishaku, wa...

Minimum Wage: Organized labour suspends strike in Taraba On By Femi Bolaji The organized labour in Taraba state has suspended the strike action embarked upon from Midnight of March 28, 2021, over delay of the state government to effect payment of the N30,000 new National minimum wage. Addressing a press conference late Thursday night in Jalingo, the state capital, Chairman of the state joint public service negotiation committee, Dame Buhari directed workers to resume work. According to him, �...