JAMB Results Now Valid For Three Years – Senate

JAMB Results Now Valid For Three Years – Senate

By Unknown   21:00   No comments:

The Nigerian Senate today passed the amendment to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s Act into law.

In the amendment, the the Senate strengthened the Board to allow the results of students in the annual examination be valid for more than one year.

The law now extends the validity of the result of the board’s examination from one year to three years.

According to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFund, Senator Jibrin Barau the amendments will further strengthen the Admissions Board in its responsibilities.

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License Illegal Refineries - Rep Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma Tells FG

License Illegal Refineries - Rep Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma Tells FG

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A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma, has said that instead of destroying illegal refineries in the Niger Delta, the Federal Government should license and regulate them.

He told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday that the government should leverage on the skills of operators of the refineries to develop small outlets for refining crude oil for domestic use.

Agbonayinma, who represents Egor/Ikpoba-Okha Constituency of EdoState, said his advice became necessary because the persons given licences to build refineries by previous administrations had failed to do so.

He said the number of illegal refineries being destroyed and the rate at which they resurfaced had shown that the operators had some engineering skills that government should harness.

He said, “The activities of illegal refinery operators should be regulated,licences should be issued to them and crude oil allocated to them based on their capacities.

“In the civilised countries, what to do is to bring all those youths and look for a way to harness their brains rather than destroy the refineries.

“They are doing what government cannot do by consistently refining crude oil into petroleum products; they deserve to be assembled and encouraged to do it better, under regulations.”

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Aisha Buhari's Controversal Interview With BBC Hausa (Full Text)

Aisha Buhari's Controversal Interview With BBC Hausa (Full Text)

By Unknown   18:28   No comments:

This is the full text from the interview of First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari, by BBC Hausa Service:

BBC Hausa: It has been One and a half years since President Muhammadu Buhari came into power, a lot of people are expressing their unhappiness over the way few acquaintance of the President have hijacked power while neglecting people that work for his success. Like we have promised, here is how the interview with Aisha Buhari and Naziru Maka’ilu from Abuja goes.

BBC Hausa: People have goodwill towards President Muhammadu Buhari, especially looking at the things he did before, but since coming into power things have not been working the way they should, what do you thing is the cause?

Aisha Buhari: I am not a government official, but in my opinion as a woman, a mother, what I think is it is well known that the first 4 years are not going to be easy. Firstly, it was people that brought the government into power. More than half of those people are not appointed into the government. Some people that are not politicians, not professionals were brought into the government. They don’t even know what we said we want and what we don’t during the campaign. They even come out and say to people we are not politicians, but they are occupying the offices meant for politicians. Some have parted with their wives, some lost their children lost, some women too have parted with their husbands because of politics, a lot happened during the time. The way things are going I too I am not happy. We are just starting, we have not finished. Some people that worked for the government have been appointed. But those heading government agencies you can find one fighting his state governor, they contested together during election one in APC while in PDP.


BBC Hausa: Who are those doing these kinds of things?

Aisha Buhari: Everybody knows them. Those people should know that people voted singly. Even Buhari too had one vote. Nobody voted 5 times. 15.429 Million People. That one that people are thinking too, he had only some 2 or 3 people. I am pleading to them to have the people at heart and embrace everybody so that we can all move together. Not even now in 2016 or 17, lot of people are creating divisions within the APC, which is our source of concern. They think they have worked for the government while those appointed some of them had no voter’s card. What I fear is uprising of 15.4 million people.

BBC Hausa: Is the President aware some people are subverting his government?

Aisha Buhari: Whether he knows or he do not, those that voted for him knows.

BBC Hausa: But you are the most closest to him, did you tell him?

Aisha Buhari: There is nothing I can tell him, he is seeing things himself. Out of the people he has appointed, take 50, 45 of them I don’t know them. Perhaps he doesn’t know them too. I have been living with him for 27 years.

BBC Hausa: Do you think there are some people that are dictating to the President things to do, not him?

Aisha Buhari: That is what I am saying, those that know they don’t have voters card, they should give chance to those that have, they are the ones that struggled and knows what we want to do. Some of them if you go to a meeting with them they will tell you, we are not politicians, if somebody is wise, they will not accept to take any political office. They didn’t even work for it. Even if you are asked to, you should say it is not my profession. Those places not headed by politicians will cause people discontent.

BBC Hausa: One would wonder to hear you say some people have hijacked the government without him knowing, but who do you think are those people?

Aisha Buhari: I don’t know them, I don’t know them. I don’t know them

BBC Hausa: But some people are calling names, saying 2 or 3 are the ones, do you that as well?

Aisha Buhari: Yes I agree. Because of those appointed apart from Fashola, Ameachi and some others, not much, I don’t know them, most of us too don’t know them, and he too does not know them

BBC Hausa: One would wonder that Buhari is not the one charge knowing him as a person who had leadership experiences, people would not believe

Aisha Buhari: Yes it is surprising; nobody thought it is going to be like this. But now that it is so…sometimes when one is doing something wrong without him knowing, but when people talk to them, they should listen. Because in the future, whether he is going to contest or not, it is that same people that would vote for APC. We hope those people don’t come back, and everybody don’t hope so too

BBC Hausa: You said “Whether he is going to contest in the future or not”, has he disclose it to you whether he is standing or not?

Aisha Buhari: He didn’t tell me, but I have made up my mind

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Boko Haram Reportedly Release 21 Chibok Girls To FG

Boko Haram Reportedly Release 21 Chibok Girls To FG

By Unknown   13:58   No comments:

Degraded Boko Haram group, According to Dailypost has reportedly released about twenty-one of the abducted Chibok school girls to the Nigerian Government.

Recall that the Islamic sect had in 2014 abducted over 200 girls from their dormitory in government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State.

According to SaharaReporters, the girls were picked up by military helicopter from Banki area of the state where the terrorist group dropped them off earlier today.

Calls put across to the Army Spokesman, Sani Usman went unanswered. However, response to a text message forwarded to him is still being awaited as at the time this report was filed

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FG Demands Immediate Release Of Detained Nigerian Students In Turkey

FG Demands Immediate Release Of Detained Nigerian Students In Turkey

By Unknown   13:45   No comments:

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday said it was determined to ensure cases of Nigerian students experiencing different forms of maltreatment in Turkey and elsewhere are urgently addressed.

The Ministry’s Spokesperson, Mr Clement Aduku, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja.

Aduku was reacting to a report that the Federal Government had not taken appropriate actions to protect the welfare of Nigerian students in Turkey caught up in its post-coup situation.

He said that contrary to the report, the leadership of the Ministry had taken series of proactive steps to adequately address the situation.

“The Ministry wishes to assure Nigerians that its leadership has ensured that adequate steps were taken here in Nigeria and in Turkey to uphold the well being of Nigerian students in Turkey.

“The Ambassador of Turkey in Nigeria was summoned to the Ministry on three separate occasions during which the request for the closure of Turkish Schools was flatly rejected.

“The Ministry also rejected the option of returning students to Nigeria to obtain fresh Visas to enable them continue in the schools to which they have been transferred,” he said.

According to him, the Federal Government, in addition to that, demanded immediate release of detained Nigerian students in Turkey.

He stated that this position was strongly conveyed by the Charge d’Affaires of Nigeria in Ankara to the competent Turkish authorities, who had been working diligently to this end as well.

“At this point virtually all the students have been released with the demand for fresh Visas dropped as to allow the students continue with their studies unhindered,” he said.

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Patience Jonathan Will Never Go Scot Free – EFCC

Patience Jonathan Will Never Go Scot Free – EFCC

By Unknown   13:40   No comments:

A group, the Human Rights Defenders and Advocacy Centre, HRDAC, has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to change its name and slogan from ‘Nobody is above the law’, since its could not probe and prosecute Patience Jonathan the wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

This came as the EFCC said that ‘Patience Jonathan will never go scot-free if she is found wanting or any other person no matter how highly placed he or she is.’

EFCC boss Magu and Patience Jonathan The group in a statement, on Wednesday, title, ‘Demand for arrest, prosecution of Patience Jonathan, probe of APC campaign fund and no more sacred cow in the anti-corruption crusade’ signed by Queen Ameh, and Innocent Agbo during a protest at the EFCC office in Ikoyi, Lagos said the EFCC was selective in its anti-graft war, as its also questioned why Patience Jonathan was still walking freely in spite of the evidence the EFCC said its has against her.

”You have found evidence incriminating Patience Jonathan but we are surprised that Patience Jonathan is still allowed to be walking freely, and even had the audacity to take the EFCC to court to demand the release of her money to her.”

The group also said the EFCC should change its slogan from ‘Nobody is above the law’, since it had found it difficult not to only go after Patience, but the likes of ex-Presidents, including Ibrahim Babangida, Abdusalam Abubakar, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan.

Agbo during the protest lamented that “I have been to this same EFCC to bail several people over the issue of N500,000 passing through their accounts innocently. They were invited, they came voluntarily and you people held them.

But we have somebody with our money, $15m which is N6bn, walking freely. On Ibrahim Babangida, Abdusalam Abubakar, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan.

Agbo said ‘we have the issue of Badamasi Babangida; it is open knowledge that N12bn gulf money was missing under his regime, nothing is done; we are aware of Obasanjo and the $16bn power funds, you people are not investigating it; we are aware of the petition against Amaechi to the EFCC; we are aware that the APC did not get the funds for its election campaign from only Buhari’s account.

We are aware that you are probing the Peoples Democratic Party, why are you not probing the APC?” he questioned The EFCC Deputy Director of Operations, Mr. Iliyasu Kwarbai, speaking with the protesters vowed that if its investigation uncovers evidence of corruption against the wife of former president Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, she would not be left off the hook and that ‘Nobody is above the law’, “Let me tell you, there is no sacred cow; anybody who is found wanting, who involves himself or herself in corrupt practices will not be spared.

I have received your petition, it is here and what do we do? We go into investigation immediately.

Now we have seen the name of Patience Jonathan; it is here. If she is found wanting, she will never go scot-free.

So also any other person no matter how highly placed he is. “We must sanitise our country and provide a very good environment that people can come and invest in; an economy that is devoid of any economic and financial crime.

So, we are happy to see you here; we have received it and we are going to go into action. I am going to inform my chairman that you were here and that we’ll commence investigation immediately.”

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Student Commits Suicide In Kwara Over Poor Academic Performance

Student Commits Suicide In Kwara Over Poor Academic Performance

By Unknown   13:36   No comments:

A 20-year-old senior secondary school student, Moji Agboola, died on Wednesday in Omu-Aran, Kwara, after taking poison.

The deceased, an SS1 student died at Adeyemo Hospital in the town due to complications in her body system as a result of the poison.

The girl was rushed to the hospital by her mother, Abigel, about three weeks ago.

The deceased was said to have taken poisonous substance after she failed her promotion examination.

“It was the deceased’s sister who first gave us the clue to her sickness before she later confessed to the act at the hospital,” Abigel told NAN at her residence on Thursday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the deceased was initially taken to Christ Apostolic Church, Ori-Oke Irapada, along Omu-Aran-Ilofa Road for prayers and deliverance.

The prophet in-charge of the church, Christopher Owolabi, said a prayer team was quickly organised for the deceased, before she was taken to the private hospital for treatment.

It was at the hospital that she was confirmed dead.

Meanwhile, a middle-age trader, simply identified as Iya Ayo, was also rushed to Omu-Aran General Hospital on Wednesday evening, for taking substance believed to be poison.

The mother of two, who lived around Orolodo area of the town, was said to have complained severally over her husband’s inability to offset their rent arrears.

A doctor at the hospital, who preferred anonymity, told NAN at the hospital on Thursday that the woman was responding to treatment.

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Bride Allow Guests Fondle Her Breast On Wedding Day To Raise Money For Honey Moon (SEE PICS)

Bride Allow Guests Fondle Her Breast On Wedding Day To Raise Money For Honey Moon (SEE PICS)

By Unknown   07:05   4 comments:

Wonders shall never cease to end,A Chinese newlywed allegedly permitted male guests at her wedding ceremony to manhandle her in other to raise money for her honeymoon. In a bizarre footage, which was reportedly captured in northern China, several men could be seen paying to fondle the bride with their hands placed on her boobs, while others were also seen pulling down her wedding dress. See more photos after the cut..

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Man Kills Himself Live On Facebook Video Cos Girlfriend Dumped Him (WATCH)

Man Kills Himself Live On Facebook Video Cos Girlfriend Dumped Him (WATCH)

By Unknown   07:02   No comments:

An absolute horrific 40 seconds video was streamed online days ago, October 10 precisely, showing a heartbroken Turkish man shoot himself live on Facebook after getting dumped by girlfriend.

Erdogan Ceren who is only just 22 year old, held a camera alongside a short gun to his chest saying no one believed him, when he said he was going to take his own life, and eventually shot himself.

Before killing himself, Erdogan had initially documented his shattered emotions online, with one of his post on Facebook saying: 'Feeling broken' along with the words, 'Our love saga would be written, ‘Behold, the eyes would not cry, half of you is going to tell you now, my hands do without that side.'
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Unclad Lady Dances And Twerks On Top Police Vehecle (Pics)

Unclad Lady Dances And Twerks On Top Police Vehecle (Pics)

By Unknown   07:12   No comments:

A video of a Kenyan girl shaking her big buttocks which look like implants or rather fake has surfaced online. In the video, the girl is busy shaking it and even goes ahead to expose her whole body. It’s not clear why she recorded herself doing such but it seems she was either on a Skype call or was entertaining someone.

But why? In this time and age do people still do such? Do they even think of the aftermath? Will you be proud when your children find your Unclad photos online? Whatever you choose, do it wisely or else one day in life, you will be left embarrassed. Just remember that the internet never forgets.


The incident attracted many passersby, some of whom cheered the plus-size woman, begging her to “give them more”. She did not hesitate. The woman went ahead to entertain the crowd, making it hard for the police to control her.


At first, many thought she was not in her right senses, but witnesses confirmed she was okay. When the scene began, the woman got on the top of the car with help from her neighbours, and sources indicate she did this because she thought her actions would chase the police officers away from the neighbourhood. Onlookers feasted their eyes on the Unclad woman, as others took photos and videos.

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Ghana To Begin Fuel Exports Into Nigeria

Ghana To Begin Fuel Exports Into Nigeria

By Unknown   07:05   No comments:

Ghana has started exporting fuel and gas oil to the landlocked countries of West Africa.The state-owned Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) Limited, is also supplying petroleum products from the same depot to Benin Republic and Nigeria.Ghana’s Minister of Petroleum, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, who made this known at the meet-the-press series in Accra, said there were plans to extend the exports to Liberia in the coming months.The minister said the vision of the government was to make Ghana the hubfor the distribution of petroleum products in the West African sub-region.The Bolgatanga Petroleum Depot, with acapacity of 46 million litres of refined gasoline and gas oil, was re-inauguratedin August 2015.Buah said Ghana had been ushered into a new gas era that would guarantee its energy security for the next two decades.“Despite the global downturn in the oil industry, we have managed to increase production.Buah said Ghana’s strategic stock was at an all-time high, with about one million metric tonnes of petroleum products IMPORTED from January to June 2016.Ghanna is planing to become the major marketer of refined petroleum product inWest Africa and we here in Nigeria are the giant of Africa with Nothing to show for it.Imagine Ghana achieving this feet with IMPORTED petroleum product and I wonder what is wrong with Nigeria.before you export anything out of a country that means you have enough to give out. We have more than four refineries in Nigeria and we can't even produce enough product for our daily consumption. Today Ghana has started dumping refined product on us and I congratulate them while I am here shaking my head for Nigeria with full annoyancewhat I Dont understand is where did we get it wrong as a country

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soldiers and air force officers storm forest at Benin-Agbor road to rescue kidnapped wife of CBN governor

soldiers and air force officers storm forest at Benin-Agbor road to rescue kidnapped wife of CBN governor

By Unknown   22:54   No comments:

A combined team of soldiers, air force officers and mobile police said to be over 1,000 have stormed the forest at Benin-Agbor road where Margaret Emefiele, the wife of Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele was taken to after she was kidnapped yesterday.

Commissioners of Police of Edo state and Delta state were spotted at Ugoneki police station this evening where they are working with others to find the kidnapped woman.

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