The National Examinations Council (NECO) has unveiled the timetable and guidelines for the conduct of its 2020 examinations for Senior Secondary 3 students. NECO Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, Professor Godswill Obioma disclosed this on Tuesday during a press conference at the Council’s Headquarters in Minna, the Niger State capital. His briefing is tagged, “Making the Conduct Of Public Examinations Work in the COVID-19 Era.” The NECO chief noted that the body has rolled out guidelines to enable schools prepare for conduct of the exams. The guidelines include preparing examination centres and schools in compliance with COVID-19 protocols; decontamination of examination centres…
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The trial of the former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke has been stalled. Mr. Adoke’s trial was stalled due to the failure of the prosecutor to serve the defendants with the proof of evidence and statement of the witness. The former AGF was arraigned today alongside Aliyu Abubakar who is an Abuja based businessman, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court. Adoke Pleads Not Guilty During the last sitting, the defendants pleaded not guilty to a 14-count charge filed against them bordering on money laundering. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had in June filed…
The Federal Government has warned Nigerians to remain vigilant as the nation intensifies the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Addressing reporters on Monday in Abuja at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, the PTF Chairman, Boss Mustapha, warned that the country has yet to win the war against COVID-19. According to him, it is important that the daily low test and case confirmation numbers should not be misinterpreted to mean that Nigeria has overcome. Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), said the government has over time ramped up testing…
The trial of the former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke has resumed in Abuja. The former AGF will be arraigned today alongside Aliyu Abubakar who is an Abuja based businessman, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court. During the last sitting, the defendants pleaded not guilty to a 14-count charge filed against them bordering on money laundering. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had in June filed an additional seven charges against the former AGF over money laundering allegations involving about N400 million. Mr Adoke’s trial was expected to begin last week but it was…
Secret Service guards shot a person, who was apparently armed, outside the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump said just after being briefly evacuated in the middle of a press conference. The president was abruptly ushered out of the press event and black-clad secret service agents with automatic rifles rushed across the lawn north of the White House. Minutes later, Trump reappeared at the press conference, where journalists had been locked in, and announced that someone had been shot outside the White House grounds. Trump said he knew nothing about the identity or motives of the person shot,…
Several Nigerians have reacted to the judgment of an Upper Sharia Court in Kano which on Monday sentenced a musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, to death by hanging for blasphemy. Sharif-Aminu,22, was found guilty of blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad in a song he circulated via Whatsapp in March this year. He has 30 days to appeal the judgment. In the aftermath of the court’s decision, thousands of Nigerians trooped to social media to express their opinions on the judgment. A Twitter user @FakhuusHashim said nothing should warrant the killing of any Nigerian for what they have said. “Nothing, and I mean nothing should…
The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has sacked the Commissioner for Works, Infrastructure, and Transport, Professor Raphael Afonja. In a letter dated August 10, 2020, and signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mrs. Olubamiwo Adeosun, the termination of Afonja’s appointment takes immediate effect. “I wish to convey the approval of His Excellency, Governor Seyi Makinde, on the termination of your appointment as Honourable Commissioner, with immediate effect,” the SSG’s letter was quoted in a statement issued by Governor Makinde’s media aide, Mr. Taiwo Adisa. “Consequent upon the above development, you are hereby directed to hand over all…
Following the recent attack on the convoy of Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, six governors of the northeast states and heads of security agencies have met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja, with the state chief executives disclosing that insurgents are able to recruit more followers because of lack of access to farmlands. They said the people need their farmlands and want to be resettled to go back to their normal lives. They have therefore called on the President to address these causes of insurgency in the area. The governors who were at the meeting also…
Primate Ndukuba has called on the government to invest in the security of her citizenries, especially those living in rural communities in the Northern part of Nigeria This comes over the killings going on in Southern part of the Kaduna State, which is widely believed to be genocide against the Christian Faithful. Archbishop Ndukuba believes that securing the lives of Nigeria should be paramount to the government thereby suggesting fencing of the Nigerian borders He said “There are Christian family communities that are being displaced, the pictures that are coming to us are not good, we are speaking but it…
The archbishop of Lokoja province Anglican Communion and Bishop of Minna diocese have charged Christians that one of the responsibilities they have as Christians is to make disciples and not just make converts. He made this known while delivering his charge to the 3rd session of the 10th synod of the diocese of Minna held at the church of Epiphany, Suleja Niger state with the theme, Christian conversion and discipleship imperative to church growth. watch here on youtube: https://youtu.be/s5F3vryTIJo