Monday, 30-11-2017  12:08 am Maina: EFCC finds £6m pension cash in UK bank     12:07 am OGFZA orders 10-year audit of Intels for ‘unlawful operations’     12:06 am IMF: banks must recapitalise     12:05 am AVM Martins, driver die as SUV plunges into lagoon     12:04 am Police to quiz Omisore over 2014 assault on Adeleke     12:03 am Security breach: NCC summons telecom chief executives to Abuja     12:02 am Adams installation as Aare Ona Kakanfo on January 13     12:00 am Court orders Saraki, Dogara to account for N500b ‘running cost’     12:00 am Danbatta delivers varsity lecture     12:00 am Nigeria earns N261.9b from Agric exports in second quarter     12:00 am Herdsmen to Ortom: you can’t chase us out of Benue     12:00 am Landmark University now ACCA accredited     12:00 am Abiola airport in Osun ge...

FRIDAY, 27-10-2017 5:22 am Ogun homeowner charter: 38,000 applicants seek assessment 5:19 am ALGON, 16 foreign investors to assist farmers with 43,590 equipment 4:46 am Nigeria accounts for 20% of Africa’s births – UNICEF 4:42 am ICJ: Nigeria pledges commitment, accepts rulings 4:08 am Abia generates N1.4bn from Made-in-Nigeria products 4:02 am Lawmakers declare Enugu Airport unsafe 3:57 am Nigeria saves N216bn from rice importation – BOA 3:02 am Photo News: Buhari hosts leadership of NASS to dinner 2:55 am Cancelled Dinner: Buhari apologises to lawmakers 1:23 am Anti-corruption: Buhari ‘ll not disappoint, Magu assures 1:21 am Sexagenarian pleads guilty to raping daughter, friend 1:00 am Okagbare to be inducted into University of Texas Hall Of Fame today 12:30 am $2.1b arms deals: Ministers, perm secs, others indicted 12:29 am Budget ready for National Assembly 12:28 am Metuh: my request to summon Jonathan not to humiliate him

  October 26, 2017. Facebook Twitter Google Pinterest LinkedIn What OWING to limited spaces in the universities, only 30 per cent out of the 1.7 million candidates who wrote the unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) will be admitted this year, National Universities Commission (NUC) Executive Secretary Prof. Abubakar Rasheed has said. Prof. Rasheed spoke at a one-day public hearing on the regulatory conflict between JAMB and universities in offering admission in Nigeria. The hearing was organised by Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund on Tuesday. The NUC boss said the limited spaces in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions have made admission crisis inevitable. According to Rasheed, the only way to avert admission crisis is to either expand access or create more universities to accommodate students. “The crisis of admission in this country is inevitable. Unless we expand spaces, we shall continue to have admission crisis in this ...

Thursday, 26-10-2017 NEWS UPDATE 2:22 am Leicester City name Puel as manager 1:00 am Presidency: Jonathan govt officials, Maina shared loot 12:59 am Metuh’s trial: Court orders Jonathan to appear on Monday 12:58 am Salami rejects appointment to monitor graft cases 12:57 am IGP Idris manipulated his retirement age, says Misau 12:56 am Buhari signs Northeast Development Commission Bill 12:55 am Only 30 per cent UTME candidates ‘ll be admitted this year, says NUC 12:54 am How Badeh’s wife, two sons escaped to U.S., says witness 12:05 am Police arraign man for raping his 16-year-old daughter 12:03 am Driver absconds with N25M goods, truck 12:02 am Good at law, gifted as cook 12:02 am WAEC, others battle hydra-headed exam malpractice 12:01 am Taxation, then and now  12:01 am 22 contestants appeal Lagos council polls results 12:00 am KPMG says economy attractive to foreign investors

news update wednesday, 25 october, 2017. 12:48 am 2017 Volleyball Nations Cup: Nigeria lost to Morocco in opener 12:40 am Kurfi, Babangida chart way forward for Polo 12:24 am Nasarawa Utd: Why we retained Dogo 12:10 am Maina probe widens as EFCC seals more houses 12:09 am Maina: Senate seeks sack of Malami, Danbazau, others 12:08 am States won’t borrow to bridge funding gap 12:07 am Metuh: Court summons Jonathan, Dasuki 12:06 am PDP chairman poll consensus bid fails 12:05 am Mum sells daughter for N280,000 to pay debt 12:04 am Ambode, Udom, Obaseki, Dickson, Fayose, Osinbajo’s wife hail women’s contributions 12:04 am Enemies of quest for openness, governance reforms 12:03 am Takeaways from Buhari’s engagement in Turkey 12:02 am Two policemen killed as expatriate is kidnapped 12:02 am Osun inaugurates another high school edifice at Ilesa 12:02 am Maina’s recall an embarrassment, says APC 12:02 am ‘Make good impact in your communities...

WhatsAp President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after participating in the 4th meeting of the Presidential Task Force on the ECOWAS Common Currency Programme, in Niamey, Republic of Niger. The President’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Bashir Ahmed, confirmed this development on his twitter handle on Tuesday in Abuja. Member-countries of the ECOWAS Task Force on Common Currency are ‎Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Niger. In his speech at the meeting, President Buhari had urged the ECOWAS member countries to tread carefully in pushing for a single currency in the sub-region by 2020. The President drew attention of ECOWAS member countries to the challenges faced by the European Union in realising the same goal.  According to him, the necessary economic fundamentals among countries continue to differ over the years, making it more difficult to pull through with the project by 2020. “Nigeria advises that we proceed cautiously with the inte...

White House interprets First Amendment for reporters October , 2017 The A-list actors who could star in the movie adaptation of “Killers of the Flower Moon’  the meaning of the First Amendment Thursday, in defense of President Trump’s  recent tweets  suggesting that the Senate Intelligence Committee investigate national news outlets.       White House press secretary Sarah Sanders lectured reporters on the meaning of the First Amendment Thursday, in defense of President Trump’s  recent tweets  suggesting that the Senate Intelligence Committee investigate national news outlets.      Asked whether Trump values the First Amendment, Sanders said replied, “Absolutely, the president is an incredible advocate of the First Amendment.” However, she continued, “With those freedoms also come responsibilities. You have a responsibility to tell the truth, to be a...