The Edo State Government will on Monday, December 14, 2020 commence recruitment of over 1,400 professionals into the junior, graduate and experienced cadres of the state’s civil service. Edo State Head of Service, Anthony Okungbowa Esq., in a statement, said the recruitment exercise is part of the ongoing transformation of the state’s civil service and a key pillar in Governor ...

  A Nigerian catholic priest, Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka and some of his church members  on Wednesday 9 December assaulted two BBC reporters, their driver and two others in Enugu State, South- Eastern Nigeria. The journalists, Chioma Obianinwa , Nnamdi Agbanelo and their driver, Ndubuisi Nwafor, were accompanied by another Catholic Priest, Rev Cajethan Obiekezie and his assitant, Solomon Orakam. ...

  GOODLUCK JONATHAN, THE CALIPHATE RITUAL-COW AND AYO ORITSEJAFOR METAPHOR.. “Mr President you are finished,” said Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor to President Goodluck Jonathan. And President Jonathan responded: “You said what?” And Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor repeated: “I mean you are finished Mr President.” And there was a dead silence for a moment before the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria ...

There are issues bedeviling our country and we can not afford,to be all ostriches, with burrowed heads in the sand, while the winds forcibly expose our unshielded nakedness. Indeed,all over the world, there is a Universal Oath, which is codified by an undeniable spiritual verdict, which prescribes an ingenious testimony, to wit, that, “Truth is an Antidote to Falsehood”! Unfortunately, ...

  The Aare Onakakanfo (Generalisimo) of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, on Tuesday, said he will never reconcile with former President Olusegun Obasanjo as his guadian angel will not forgive him if he did. Aare Adams, while speaking at a press conference at his Omole residence in Lagos, lambasted Obasanjo for casting aspersion on his character. The media had reported that ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has again given reasons why the strike it began nine months ago has not been suspended, according to agency report. Speaking on Wednesday, the President of ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, gave conditions that must be satisfied before calling off strike. The body said that it has become very necessary to make a ...

  By Agencies -December 9, 2020 Uganda has applied through the Global Alliances for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) to secure the COVID-19 vaccine from drugmaker AstraZeneca amid surging cases in the country, the country’s ministry of health said. Henry Mwebesa, the Director-General of Health Services, said in a statement that the application process is in an advanced stage and the ...

  The UN warned against “vaccine nationalism” by the wealthy countries. People’s Vaccine Alliance, a coalition of international nongovernmental organisations has warned that dozens of poor countries risk not getting Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines next year due to hoarding by wealthy countries. The coalition, comprising human rights watchdog Amnesty International, said on Wednesday that rich countries such as Canada, the United ...

  China has been increasing its activities in both the South and the East China Sea in response to the increasing US military presence in the region. Japan on Wednesday lodged a protest with China after four Chinese ships entered the coastal waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, media reports say. “Today, at 09:43 a.m. ...

  Report says server failed for applicants that wrote the 9:00am and 10:30 a.m. exam on Wednesday. Applicants who wrote Wednesday UTME exam for admission into the University of Benin (UNIBEN) are to be recalled following the collapse of the university’s server. The university, in a terse short messaging service (SMS) sent out on Wednesday afternoon, directed the affected candidates, ...