The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has unveiled New Schemes of Service for all Nigerian Polytechnics, operational from June 7, 2024. Speaking at the presentation of the document on Wednesday at the NBTE headquarters in Kaduna, Idris Bugaje, its Executive Secretary, said the new schemes of service is a unified approach to the recruitment…
By Daniel Dauda in Jos The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCDC), Rev. Yakubu Pam, has described journalists as the “light and salt of the society”. Pam stated this while delivery a sermon on Sunday at the Thanksgiving Service of the Correspondent Chapel, Plateau State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists…
The Plateau State Police Command has disclosed that 96 people were killed while 221 houses were set ablaze during Christmas Eve attacks on communities in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas of the state. The Plateau state police commissioner, Okoro Alawari, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement signed by Alfred Alabo, the command’s…
By Godknows Jonah Sylbriks Nigerians are in search of villains, having unsuccessfully failed to create heroes out of politicians. As the news within and outside Nigeria, about the economy worsen, people need a hate figure, some villain, who can be accused of causing the pains they are facing. For now, the cap aptly fits, former…
Raising from their meeting on Sunday in Abeakuta, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, have recommended special courts to try bandits, kidnappers and carriers of unlawful weapons in Nigeria. According to the Punch newspaper, Obasanjo and Gumi made this known in a jointly signed communique issued after their closed-door meeting at the Obasanjo…
Onuminya Ochowechi in Sokoto The General Officer, Commanding (GOC) 8 Division of the Nigerian Army, Sokoto, Maj. Gen. Godwin Mutkut, has commended personnel who participated in the Division’s 2023 Inter-Brigade Corporal and Below Competition. The competition is part of the Nigerian Army training activities that holds every year in all the army divisions across the…
