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Total E&P Nigeria Limited in collaboration with Akwa Ibom state government is set to build a 170-capacity Skills Acquisition Centre at Atan Offot in Uyo local government area for women in the state. On completion, the centre would provide the needed facility for the training of Akwa Ibom women in entrepreneurship and skills capacity. Mr. Nicholas Terraz, the Managing Director of the company, said at the ground-breaking ceremony for the centre that his company intends to improve the earning capacity of women in its operation areas as a means of stimulating the local economies of host communities and the entire…

Twenty-Two students of Government Secondary School, Misau, in Bauchi State including their driver Tuesday died in an auto crash along Bauchi-Kano road. Of the number, 12 were males while the remaining 10 were females. Mr. Kabir Ibrahim-Daura, the Public Relations Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps in Kano State, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the accident occurred around 11 a.m. near Tsaida village in Gaya local government area of the state. Ibrahim-Daura said the students were travelling to Kano for an excursion when their bus had a head on collusion with a DAF truck. He said the 22 students…

Analysts on a private radio station in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital Tuesday x-rayed the various methods of election rigging, predicting that the 2019 general elections in the country using electronic voting system will be full of more surprises. The analysts who were speaking on Comfort FM, Uyo identified the use of under age children as a method of election rigging, predicting that “Rigging in 2019 general election will make that of 2015 a child’s play.” They cited “Look at what happened Saturday in Katsina state where there was a bye-election into the House of Representatives. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has given Soth African President Jacob Zuma an ultimatum to resign or face a motion of no confidence in Parliament. However, Zuma has rejected the ultimatum, saying that he should be given six more months to remain in office he hands over to his successor. Gwede Mantashe, ANC chairman who told hundreds of ANC supporters at the Umsobomvu Community Hall in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday, said same day the party confirmed its national executive committee had taken a decision to recall Zuma as head of state as he had refused to…

The Nigerian Army has claimed that its attacks against terrorists in Sambisa forest and other locations in the North-east of the country has caused the Boko Haram factional leader, Abubakar Shekau, to be on the run, dressed in a woman attire. “The terrorists are in disarray and scampering for safety while others were surrendering,” the army said on Tuesday in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Sani Usman. Mr. Usman, a brigadier-general, said, “Credible information from arrested and surrendered insurgents indicated that the purported Boko Haram terrorists group factional leader, Abubakar Shekau could not bear the heat anymore as he…

A Catholic Priest in Imo State said because of the level of killings, Nigeria is like leprosy that needs urgent attention, calling on its leaders to seek the face of God on the problem. Rev. Fr. Jude Ifeanyi Duruaku who said this at a thanksgiving mass held at Holy Trinity Catholic Parish in Awka, Owerri North local government area of the state to celebrate the promotion of the wife of the Imo state Chief Judge, Mrs. Ine Nnadi to the rank of a Professor of Law said for Nigeria to experience the desired change, the leaders must first change themselves.…

Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Tuesday, passed the state’s 2018 Appropriation Bill of N646, 649,512,690 billion into law. Governor Udom Emmanuel had in November 2017 presented a budgetary estimate of N651 billion to the Assembly for consideration and approval for the 2018 fiscal year. The budget as passed by the House of Assembly indicates a decrease of N5 billion from the initial budget size earlier presented by the governor. Onofiok Luke, the Speaker, announced the passage during plenary following the adoption of the report and recommendations of the House Committee on Appropriations and Finance, headed Usoro Akpanusoh. The house…

No fewer than two million students, who graduate from the nation’s tertiary institutions annually are said to worsen unemployment level in the country. Dr. Osita Aniemeka, the Programme Director, South East Entrepreneurship Development Centre, SEEDC, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, stated this weekend in Owerri, during the flag-off of skills acquisition scheme jointly powered by Iwuanyanwu Foundation, CBN and SEEDC. “About 1.8 million students graduate annually from the nation’s tertiary institutions and this worsens the unemployment situation in the country,” Dr. Aniemeka said. While urging the trainees to fully utilise the programme, the Programme Director however debunked the belief in…

More than 200 persons from Izombe and the adjoining communities in Oguta local government area of Imo State heaved a sigh of relief weekend, following their successful eye surgeries carried out free of charge by a team of medical specialists sponsored by Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc. Similarly, over 700 persons that had their eyes tested for varying defects, smiled home with corrective glasses. Addressing the patients, , Dr. Chioma Nwachukwu, the Company’s General Manager, External Affairs and Communications described the exercise as “the maiden edition of Seplat’s Eye Can See and Safe Motherhood programmes in our Eastern Assets Operations…

No fewer than 7000 fresh students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka have been exposed to leadership and entrepreneurship skills as part of their academic programme in the institution. Professor Stanley Udedi, Dean Students Affairs in the university, organised the training in which some captains of industry, as well as the director of Chike Okoli Center for Entrepreneurial studies in the university, Professor Ngozi Anyikwa delivered lectures to the students According to Udedi, the students needed the skill early in their studies so that they would have become fully prepared for self employment by the time they graduate, assuring that they would study…