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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has fixed March 9 to 17 for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The Registrar of the board, Ishaq Oloyede, said this at a meeting with stakeholders on Tuesday. The theme of the meeting is “Strategic planning on the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation.” Mr. Oloyede said the mock examination initially scheduled to hold between January 22 and 24 has been moved to the first week in February due to the ongoing strike by non-teaching staff of universities. “We are unable to access our CBT centres because most of them…

Public secondary and primary schools inKaduna State remained under lock and key following indefinte strike embarked on by teachers in the schools across the state over the dismissal of primary school teachers and some welfare issues. The strike which was called by the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in protest against the sack of more than 21,000 primary school teachers by Kaduna government has entered day two. The government on Sunday threatened to sack any teacher who joined the strike. Yet, the teachers have defied the sack order and joined their counterparts in observing the strike…

A former Special Assistant to the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan on Political Affairs, has opened a can of startling revelations concerning the incessant attacks and killing of Nigerians by Fulani herdsmen in many states of the country. Dr. Doyin Okupe, posting sterling revelations by Professor Charles Adisa of the Chinua Achebe Center for Leadership and Development, about the continued killing, kidnapping and maiming of their host communities by the herders, lamented that over 1,000 people had been murdered across the country. He blamed the Federal Government for its lukewarm attitude in handling the situation and protecting lives of innocent…

Confusion seems to be trailing Federal Government planning to dump ranches and set up colonies with facilities for herdsmen to rear their cattle in states of the federation. Before now, Federal Government had contemplated establishing ranches in different states of the federation to ease growing tension between the herdsmen and the farmers. It was rumoured that the government had sent a bill to the National Assembly for deliberation and passage into law, an action the government vehemently denied. Government’s inertia in finding lasting solution to the herdsmen/farmers’ clashes have led to the death of scores of farmers and other defenceless…

Igwedibia Johnson (a.k.a Don Wanny), the notorious militant leader from Omoku in Rivers State, killed Sunday by a joint security forces had once resided along Fulga Street in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State 24 years ago as an innocent and hard working businessman; an investigation by StraightNews has shown. StraightNews gathered from an anonymous source that Wanni, who lived in a house close to Faith and Power Church from 1994 to 1998 as a big boy, operated a drinking joint along Idoro road in Uyo and was an owner of a BMW car then. “I used to…

A 28-year-old Nigerian lady, who bagged first class in both her first and master’s degrees, has now bagged PH.d from the Herriot Watts University. She studied from 2013-2017. The lady, Veronica Ebiweni Omofoma, made her academic mark by bagging first class in Electronic Electrical engineering in her first degree and Master’s in Engineering from the University of Hull from 2007 – 2011. She emerged the best overall graduating student in the University of Hull, United Kingdom. A popular Nigerian comedian, Alibaba, who took to his Instagram, said “she graduated with first class in Electronic/Electrical Engineering in the first degree, first…

The people of Niger State and in neighbouring states are panicked over the January 5 deadline given by some youths in the state to the Abuja Electricity Development Company (AEDC) to improve its services by ensuring uninterrupted supply of electricity for 24 hours daily or face the consequences. Consequently, the security operatives in the state and the government are gripped with fear by the threat because similar threat to occupy AEDC offices issued by the youths was carried out and it resulted in four-day blackout in Minna and environs last December. Their threat to blow up the three hydroelectric dams…

In 12 months, Akwa Ibom State has gotten three Commissioners of Police, investigation by StraightNews shows. Don Awunah, the Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom State, was transferred from the state barely seven months after assuming office. Mr. Awunah, the 21st commissioner of police in the state, took over from his predecessor, Muritala Mani, in January 2017. Don Awunah, was also transferred from the state barely seven months after assuming office. According to the then police spokesperson in the state, Ikechukwu Chukwu, Mr. Awunah was transferred to the Nigeria Police Academy, Kano. Until his posting to Akwa Ibom, Mr. Awunah…

After languishing 53 days in kidnappers’ den, three Catholic Reverend Sisters and three women, who were kidnapped by gunmen in Edo State, have regained their freedom. The sisters are serving with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Convent while the other women were picked from another location. The Superior-General of the convent, Sister Agatha Osarekhoe, confirmed the development on Sunday. According to her, one of the victims, Veronica Ajayi, was released at about 6 p.m. on Saturday, while the other five were released 12 midnight Sunday. It was not clear if ransom had been paid the abductors who had initially demanded…

An Akwa Ibom Pentecostal pastor has berated Nigerian leaders who are not free from tissues of corruption, but take the lead in the crusade against corruption practices. Dr. Sylvanus Ukafia, who is the state Chairman of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Akwa Ibom branch, lamented that apart from some Nigerian leaders who crusade against corruption being naïve and biased, yet they are enmeshed in corruption practices. Preaching Sunday to mark first Sunday in the New Year service at Insight Bible Church, Uyo, he lamented a situation where some leaders do not know their date of birth, yet they want to…