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President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to enterprising Nigerians, unemployed graduates, able-bodied and literate men and women with ideas not to wait for employment from government or the Organized Private Sector. Buhari, who made the appeal Monday in his 2018 New Year message, noted that “Great nations are built by enterprising people who turn their hands to anything that circumstances dictate.” He, however, blamed cabal for creating the current fuel scarcity in the country, and pledged to stop the blackmailers from doing so again. According to him, “The consequence was that not many could travel and the few who did had…

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has remitted additional N3.6 billion to the nation’s treasury. The Registrar of the Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said this on Tuesday during a meeting with Executives of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COESU) in his office in Bwari, Abuja. He said the N5.2 billion earlier sent to the treasury was not the total money the Board actually transferred to the government. Prof. Oloyede said “more monies generated from the sale of 2017 admission documents were transferred”, adding that “the Board had so far remitted N7.8 billion to the treasury”. Earlier the COESU National…

Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate has derided President Muhammadu Buhari administration for taking the patient and long-suffering queues in urban centres caused by the current fuel crisis in the country for a ride. DAILY POST reported last week that a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Sunny Onuesoke had described Prof. Wole Soyinka, Prof. Pat Utomi, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Femi Falana and others as hypocrites for keeping mute as scarcity of fuel continues to bite harder across the country. But in reaction, Soyinka called on the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to end the current fuel scarcity in…

Carrot, daucus carota, is a well- known household vegetable. Carrot is native to Eurasia and northern Africa. It belongs to the umbelliferae family of plants, and grows up to 80cm high, with tiny leaves. Both the plant and the root are referred to as carrot. A biennial plant [lasts only for two seasons], car-rot grows very well in its first season and stores a surplus of food in its root, which becomes big, fleshy and large and orange coloured due to the presence of carotene. In the second season the root becomes woody and less nutritious and delicious. As early…

Police in Slidell, Louisiana, have arrested a man who allegedly helped scam people out of thousands of dollars in “Nigerian prince”-style email schemes. Michael Neu, 67, is charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering. In a Facebook statement on Thursday, police described him as a “middle man” who conned victims into giving up their money in phone and online scams. Neu is accused of wiring some of the money he helped obtain to “co-conspirators” located in Nigeria. The police department did not immediately return a request for more specifics on his alleged role. “Nigerian prince” scams are a type…

Democratic Republic of Congo’s government on Saturday ordered telecommunications providers to cut internet and SMS services across the country ahead of planned anti-government demonstrations. Grassroots Catholic activists have called for marches in major cities on Sunday to demand that President Joseph Kabila commit to not changing the constitution to stand for a third term and release political prisoners. Kabila was required by the constitution to step down in December last year when his mandate expired but an election to replace him has been repeatedly delayed and is now scheduled for December 2018. Security forces killed dozens of protesters during anti-Kabila…

The Nigerian Army says it has commenced its online registration for the 77 Regular Recruit Intake for both trades, non-tradesmen and women from December 29, 2017 to February 9, 2018. Sani Usman, brigadier general, the army spokesman, said in a statement on Saturday that the exercise was aimed at selecting able-bodied Nigerians and would take place in all states. “Interested applicants must be Nigerians between the ages of 18 to 22 for non-tradesmen and women, while tradesmen and women must be between 22 to 26 years by 1st March 2018. “Applicants are to visit the Nigerian Army official website http://recruitment.army.mil.ng…

Sunday David, 38, is an indigene of Ikot Ekpe in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. But he lives in Uyo close to the Ibibio Museum along Udo Udoma Avenue. He hawks fresh coconut fruits. To Him, coconut water is “heavenly drink.” Slim but short David is a coconut hawker. He peddles the business to eke out a living for himself and his family. According to him, “I use rope to climb a coconut tree. Armed with a matchet, I pluck coconut fruits. I put them in the wheel barrow and hawk them to interested buyers along…

A Nigerian prophet has cited absence of love and compassion among the leaders as the cause of poverty in the world. T. B. Joshua, who wrote this on his Facebook page, reasoned that money or resources are not the major factor behind world lack. “The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are, but on how happy others can be because of you,” he said. Quoting from 1 Corinthians 13:13, he explained, “The manner you love your neighbour determines the measure of your relationship with God.” The cleric argued that even those who are materially wealthy are…