The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has placed an order for ventilators, environmental disinfectant safety sprayers and vehicle-mounted disinfectant sprayers to sanitise its workers nationwide daily. The equipment are produced by the National Agency for Science Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI). The board said its entire workers at its headquarters and outstations would be sanitised before and […]

Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Ibrahim Shuaibu, has said that there are no plans to mobilise recent graduates in the country for the compulsory scheme due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Shuaibu in an interview with Economic Confidential said only Batch A, Stream 1, who were asked to leave camp due to COVID-19

The federal government has announced the locations of the six newly approved federal colleges of education, one in each of the six geo-political zones of Nigeria. In a statement on Monday, the spokesperson for the Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Gooong, said the six colleges of education will take-off in October. “The attention of the

The Imo Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma, on Saturday announced his administration’s plan to reposition the Imo State University (IMSU) for academic excellence. Uzodinma who made the announcement while receiving a report from the institution’s visitation panel in Owerri said that the state was poised to take the university to a competitive and admirable height. “It

The Nigerian Union of Teachers has said that it wants primary and secondary schools, both private and public, to remain closed as long as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread in the country. The Secretary-General of the union, Dr Mike Ene, said this in an interview with our correspondent on Thursday in Abuja. Ene explained

We collect N1,500 from customers – 13yr old victim Twenty-four girls who were trafficked from Akwa-Ibom State to Lagos, for prostitution, were rescued at Abbatoir, Agege area of the state, by the Police, Thursday. Arrested, were four men suspected to have brought them. The girls whose ages were between 13 and 22 years, lived in

The first black valedictorian of South Broward High School’s graduating class has a record-setting GPA. “As of now, it’s a 5.6045,” said senior Timi Adelakun. “I think by graduation it’ll go a little bit higher, but that’s my number.” The 18-year-old has earned the highest recorded GPA at the Hollywood school. “It’s good, especially the

Ukazi, oha, uziza, iru are common vegetables and spices used in cooking delicious local dishes, but researchers at the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) say they have natural anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-hypertensive properties useful for boosting the immune system. They advised Nigerians to fortify their meals with these herbs and spices to strengthen their

Former Nigeria international Finidi George has been included in LaLiga’s African All-time Eleven list, Completesports.com reports. The Africa LaLiga All-time best list which is a five minutes video of the selected players – past and present – was compiled by SuperSports and published on their verified Twitter handle. Finidi’s inclusion in the list is due