JAMB RESULT OUT

It was noted that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Friday released the results of last Saturday’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME).

ANOTHER WAR IN LAGOS BETWEEN POLICE AND SOLDIERS

it  was so pandemonium at Obanikoro, Lagos Mainland, yesterday as soldiers clashed with policemen attached to the Lagos State Transport Management Agency (LASTMA).

PDP RIGGED GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION IN ABIA STATE

Although the governorship elections have come and gone and winners emerged from different directions, party members have continued to live with the memories of what transpired. Two chieftains of All Nigerian Peoples Party(ANPP) in the Abia State, Elder Kasidy Agbai and the party governorship candidate during the polls, Chief Anagha Ndukwo Anagha poured out their hearts during an interview.

CORP MEMBERS KIDNAPPED

IN FCT (ABUJA) The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, after a meeting, weekend, refused to pay ransom for the release of five corps members kidnapped in Rivers State.

OIL WORKERS HIJACKED

IN Eket - AKWE IBOM,  Irate youths from Afriyo, Eket, in Akwa Ibom State, yesterday, hijacked a 32-seater coaster bus conveying oil workers to the Uquo Marginal Oil Fields operated by Frontier Oil Ltd.
The youths waylaid the bus and forcefully hijacked it and drove it to the palace of the Village Head, where the oil workers were later released unharmed.

GADHAFI HAS 90 DAYS TO STEP DOWN

THE United Nations resolution justifies the targeting of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a senior NATO military official with operational knowledge of the Libya mission.

US TROOPS TO STAY AWAY IRAQ SAID

THE Iraq government will ask the United State government  to keep its troops in the country beyond the 2011 withdrawal deadline set by US President Barack Obama, Leon Panetta, the White House's pick to lead the Pentagon, said.

KEROSENE SCARCITY HAS ENDED

THE efforts to ensure that scarcity of kerosene becomes a thing of the past, the NNPC said it is releasing 3,000 metric tonnes of kerosene into the market.

CABINET IN EBONYI FEARS MASSES

IN EBONYI State, the Peoples   Democratic Party (PDP) State since the dawn of civil rule in 1999 with emergence of the first executive Governor, Dr. Sam Egwu, who was succeeded by Chief Martin Elechi, another PDP governor in 2007.

KEROSENE CRISIS ENDS ON TUESDAY

WE hope that the accelerated end to the artificially-induced scarcity and hike in the price of kerosene appeared on the horizon, on Tuesday, as the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and members of the Major Oil marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) pledged to bring the situation to an end within the next 10 days.

GADHAFI VOWED TO STAY BOMB OR NO BOMB

IN Libya, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi vowed Tuesday that "we will not surrender," even as NATO air-strikes bombarded his compound in Tripoli.

EX - SPEAKER FACES 16 CHARGE OF FRAUD BY EFCC

THE count charge Dimeji Bankole of fraud and other corrupt practices, this charge has been filed against the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

BLAST AT MAIDUGURI 16 DEAD

Three blast hit Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Tuesday and gunfire rang out after suspected members of an Islamist sect attacked police stations, a Reuters witness said.

N10 BILLION STOLEN

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may not give up on its bid to interrogate the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, over his role in the N10 billion loan scam.

FORMER GOVERNOR OF ENUGU STATE GRANT BAIL BY HIGH COURT

Former governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani who was last week arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on allegations of corruption was yesterday granted an unconditional bail by an Enugu High Court.

ANOTHER BOMB IN BAUCHI

Just 48 hours after the bomb blasts that took place at the 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi, killing 13 and injuring 40 others, gunmen have hurled another bomb at a police station in Bulkachuwa town of Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State, killing a police corporal.

JAMB EXAMINATION DATE - UTME 2011

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced Saturday, June 18, 2011 as the new date for the conduct of the 2011 UTME.

HOW MANY WAS KILLED IN POST ELECTION VIOLENCE

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, said on Thursday that 520 persons were killed in the post-election violence in Kaduna and Niger states.