A middle-aged man has been electrocuted while trying to vandalise a Jos Electricity Distribution Company, JED, electricity transformer and cables installed near Queens Hotel, Ankpa Ward in Makurdi.It was gathered that the young man whose lifeless body was found between the upriser polls mounted by the transformer was killed while trying to vandalise the installation. […]
Application Deadline: 13 October 2024 Applications are now open for the 2025 Australia Awards Fellowships. Australia Awards Fellowships aim to build networks of influence and leadership by strengthening partnerships between Australian organisations and partner organisations in the region. Fellowships target senior and mid-career officials and professionals who are in a position to advance development outcomes in priority […]
By Marie-Therese Nanlong The North Central All Progressives Congress, APC Forum, has berated a group led by the former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, for supporting the embattled National Chairman of the Party, Abdullahi Ganduje, ahead of the Party’s National Executive Council, NEC.Ebute’s group, under the auspice of the North Central APC Elders Forum, had on […]
Application Deadline: 15th of September 2024. Applications are now open for the 2024/2025 UNHCR Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative (DAFI) UNHCR’s Scholarship Programme. UNHCR’s Tertiary Refugee Scholarship Programme (DAFI) offers qualified refugee and returnee (in selected countries*) students the possibility to earn an undergraduate degree in their country of asylum or home country. The scholarship package varies from […]
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 […]
