By Kingsley Omonobi Chairman of Police Service Commission, PSC, DIG Hashimu Argungu, retd, said yesterday the commission would no longer be a rubber stamp for irregular means of promotion in Nigeria Police Force.He declared that merit, based on passing of prescribed examinations and other basic requirements, would now count for the promotion of officers and […]
Application Deadline: November 29, 2024 at 11:59PM EST Applications are now open for the 2025/2026 US-MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Program. Sponsored by the Department of State’s U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), the Tomorrow’s Leaders Program offers undergraduate and graduate scholarships to exceptional students from socioeconomically underserved backgrounds who represent the cultural and geographic diversity of the Middle […]
Application Deadline: October 3rd, 2024 Applications are now open for the 2024/2025 Women and Clean Energy in West Africa (WOCEWA) Scholarship and Green Jobs Program. The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) has received funding of CAD 1.5 million from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, to implement a project entitled Women and Clean […]
The man who designed Nigerian flag, Taiwo Michael Akinkunmi, will be buried this week in Oyo state, where he lived. This is coming a year after he died, aged 87. The delay was because the Federal Government had promised a state burial for him. However, no plans have ever been made. And as they waited, Akinkunmi’s […]
Omokehinde Olowu, the Public Relations Officer of the NNPP recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has condemned the recent legal suit filed at the Ogun State High Court by a group claiming to represent the party. Oluwu described the plaintiff as an impostor, accusing him of falsely assuming the role of National Secretary […]
Application Deadline: 30 September 2024 Applications are now open for the 2025 CSIR-SASOL Foundation Bursary Programme. The CSIR bursary programme financially supports full-time, unemployed students in obtaining qualifications in areas that are deemed a priority by the CSIR. The bursary is open to academically qualifying young people and aims to attract and increase the participation of women, black […]
By Kingsley Omonobi & Musa Ubandawaki The Federal Government yesterday through the Minister of Defence, Dr. Bello Matawalle, vowed to flush out bandits and other criminal gangs terrorizing northwest in compliance with the President Bola Tinubu’s directives to troops of Joint operation Hadarin Daji.This came as the Minister of Defence, the Chief of Defence Staff, […]
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has said President Bola Tinubu’s government did not lie about fuel subsidy. According to him, subsidy provisions had disappeared from Nigeria’s budget and were not included in the supplementary budget of 2023. Onanuga who said this in a statement on his official X page, […]
…Price rises by 460 per cent in 15 months **Timeline of fuel price hikes, changes in Nigeria WITH the latest hike in fuel price to N897 per litre, the cost of fuel has risen by 460 per cent in 15 months since President Bola Tinubu assumed office in May 29, 2023. The latest hike is […]
No fewer than 3,590 inmates across the custodial centres in Nigeria are on death row, the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has revealed. NCoS Public Relations Officer, Assistant Controller of Corrections (ACC), Abubakar Umar, made this known while speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. Umar said that the total number […]
