Bauchi State Government has approved N425,336,400 for the 2017 registration and conduct of the West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, National Business and Technical Examination Board, NABTEB, and National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies NBAIS, examinations.

The rate of unemployment in Nigeria rose to 14.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, from 13.9 percent in Q3, with the number of unemployed in the labour force increasing by 351,015 persons.

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has congratulated the immediate past Deputy Governor of the state, Prof. Amos Utuama, SAN, on his 70th birthday.

SENIOR Special Assistant to Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on Political Matters, Mr. Matthew Opuoru, has said that the governor’s achievements in the first two years of his administration and his laid out development plan for the people of Delta State in the years ahead, “indicate that he is on the way to becoming one of the best governors in Nigeria.”

THE Nigerian Army has promised a thorough investigation of allegation of misconduct involving its personnel and members of the Civilian Joint Task Force, in some Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camps in the North East.