Jos – The Post-UME screening of candidates into the University of Jos began yesterday in spite of a resolution by the institution’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to postpone the exercise. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sonni Tyoden, told newsmen that the exercise, being conducted by the management and some academic staff in conjunction with a […]

By Yemie Adeoye ABUJA – FOLLOWING agitations by players and stakeholders in the oil and gas industry for a total review of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the Federal Government has appealed to players in the upstream arm of the Oil and Gas industry to particpate in the formation and enactment of the PIB, currently […]

…raise alarm over porous border By Tordue Salem ABUJA — The House of Representatives is to raise an investigative panel to look into alleged breaches of the expatriate quota by the Ministry of Interior for foreign workers in the petroleum and other sectors of the economy. The Chairman, House Committee on Interior, Rep. Jerimon Manwe […]

By Isiaka Oyibo LOKOJA — ONE person identified as Surage was, yesterday, stabbed to death and ten others badly injured when some youths of Kabawa engaged themselves in a free-for-all fight. During the mayhem at the Maraba area of Lokoja metropolis, guns, machetes, cudgels, broken bottles and other dangerous weapons were freely used forcing motorists […]

Kafur (Katsina)  -  The Kafur Local Council in Katsina State has suspended an immunisation officer and his subordinates for allegedly compiling false report on immunisation exercise in Masari village. Director of Health in the council, Alhaji Shuaibu Garba, who disclosed this yesterday while supervising the on-going exercise in Masari village, said the doctored report was […]