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The Federal Government has described as false the information being circulated on the Social Media to the effect that, under a purported Ministry of Interior Regulation, all phone calls and Social Media posts made by the citizens are to be monitored and recorded. Minister for Information, Culture and National Orientation. Alhaji Lai Mohammed departing with some documents after a closed door parley with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Photo by Abayomi Adeshida In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Informatio and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described the development as another example of disinformation that has permeated the media space, especially the Social Media. The Minister said the intention of those behind the false news is to give the impression that the Federal Government is working to stifle freedom of speech, which is not the case. ”There is no regulation, old or new, from the Ministry of Interior or any federal governm...

The Joint Admission and Registration Board (JAMB) has extended the registration date for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). The board extended the deadline for sale of forms and registration for the exams from the earlier announced April 19 to May 5. Consequently, the exam body also postponed the 2017 UMTE from May 13 to May 20. The Mock Examination earlier slated for Saturday, had earlier been put on hold. The Board said the postponement of the mock was due to failure from its technical partners. The Registrar of the Board, Is-haq Oloyede, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, also apologised to candidates for the sudden changes. He said: “We could not go on with the Mock Examination and hereby announce extension of registration exercise of the 2017 UTME. “Instead of the earlier announced April 19, the deadline for the sale of forms and registration will now extend to Friday, May 5, 2017. Consequently, the 2017 UTME has also been ...

​ - EFCC says it is on the trail of the owners of the N448.85m it discovered in Lagos state on Friday - Sam Amadin, the anti-corruption agency's spokesman in Lagos, said efforts are on to contact the owners of the complex to know those that rented the affected shops - According to Amadin, the shops had been abandoned for a very long time A portion of the seized cash in Lagos on Friday, April t The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that it is searching for the owner of N448.85million it discovered in a shopping plaza in Lagos state late on Friday, April 7. According to The Punch, spokesman of the agency in Lagos Sam Amadin said it was trying to reach the owner of the complex with a view to knowing who rented the said shop 64. “ The shopping plaza, from preliminary investigation, was built by estate developers. From the developers, we will get the owner of the money. ”The people around the complex know the owner of the money. The place h...

April 7, 2017 Press Release Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Prof. Ishaq Oloyede (R) addressing a News Conference in Abuja on Friday (7/4/17) on the proposed Computer Based Mock Examination holding Nationwide on Saturday April 8. With him is the Director of Test Administration, Dr Yusuf Lawal 02124/7/4/2017/Deborah Bada/ICE/NAN The Joint Admissions & Matriculation Board (JAMB) will be conducting the 2017 UTME MOCK Examination tomorrow Saturday, April 8, 2017. To seamlessly achieve this, the Board has suspended all activities relating to the ongoing registration exercise in ANY CBT Centre from 8pm today being Friday 7th of April, 2017 and to resume on Monday 10th of April 2017. Candidates for mock examination are to check for their examination venue, time using either registration number or e-mail address on www.jamb.org.ng/checkmockcentre . Email and text messages have also been sent to candidates. Candidates would be admitted to their res...

​ President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker of the House of Representative. According to The Punch, the president met with Dogara today, Monday, April 3 at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. File photo of President Buhari with Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara Bukola Sraki who is the Senate president is also expected to meet with the president after Dogara. This meeting is being considered a move by the executive and the legislature to achieve peace as there has been report that the two arms of government have been at loggerheads. The retention of Ibrahim Magu as acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the recommendation of the Senate has created tension between the president and the lawmakers as they decided not to screen the 27 resident electoral commissioners submitted by the president.

​ - The Central Bank of Nigeria is set inject more dollars in into the market as its effort to sustain the growth of naira against dollar - There are strong indications that the apex bank is set into push more dollars into the market to ensure liquidity in the interbank - The move is also expected to increase the sale of dollars to Bureau de Change operators from $8,000 to $10,000 per week The move is also expected to increase the sale of dollars to Bureau de Change operators from $8,000 to $10,000 per week The Central Bank of Nigeria is set inject more dollars in into the market as its effort to sustain the growth of naira against dollar. Shigosag.blogspot.com gathered there are strong indications that the apex bank is set into push more dollars into the market to ensure liquidity in the interbank. The move is also expected to increase the sale of dollars to Bureau de Change operators from $8,000 to $10,000 per week. Since the beginning of the intervention, the CBN h...

​ Candidates sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would from this year spend two hours instead of three hours to write the exam. Candidates sitting for 2017 UTME would spend two hours instead of three hours to write the exam. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Registrar/Chief Executive Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, on Wednesday, March 29, stated this in Kaduna, during the opening ceremony of a strategic planning retreat on the monitoring, supervision and evaluation of 2017 UTME with the theme: “Inclusiveness and sensitisation of key external actors.” According to JAMB, a total of 240,000 candidates have so far registered for the examination which has been scheduled for May 20, barely one week after the commencement of the sale of forms which is expected to end on April 22. The organisation said the reduction of hours was in line with international best standards and practices where no candidate is kept in an examination such as UTME fo...

​ An antigraft forum is set to hold in France  Nigeria's vice president has departed for the event which holds in Paris Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria's vice president, has departed for Paris in France. Osinbajo is off to attend the anti-corruption and integrity forum of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development holding Thursday and Friday, March 29th and 30th. BREAKING: VP Osinbajo jets off to Paris for antigraft forum The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement. According to him, Osinbajo will speak at the forum which brings global leaders, government ministers, business leaders and civil society representatives together to discuss the cost of corruption, the use of political donations to buy influence, developments in corporate liability for graft and the role of export controls in countering bribery. Daily Trust reports that the vice president's ...

​ On Wednesday, March 29, President Muhammadu Buhari presided over the Federal Executive meeting at the Presidential Villa. On Wednesday, March 29, President Muhammadu Buhari presided over the Federal Executive meeting at the Presidential Villa. On Wednesday, March 29, President Muhammadu Buhari presided over the Federal Executive meeting at the Presidential Villa. President Buhari sent two nominees to the Senate today Today's FEC meeting comes after the president forwarded the name of two nominees for ministerial appointment. The meeting comes after the president has sent name of ministerial nominees to the Senate The list which was sent to the Senate through the Senate President Bukola Saraki contained the names of Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) and Suleiman Hassam (Gombe). Minister of sports and youth development Solomon Dalung and others The ministers present at the FEC meeting include: the minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun; minister of communications and tec...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reviewed down the rate at which it was selling dollars to Bureau De Change (BDC) operators nationwide. CBN introduces new forex rate for Bureau De Change operators nationwide Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, President, Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Tuesday that the buying rate for BDCs would now be N350 and would sell at N360 to the dollar. NAN reports that before now, BDCs were buying dollars from the CBN at a forward rate of N381 to the dollar and selling at N399 to the dollar. Gwadabe commended the CBN for heeding the appeal of BDCs for a level playing field for all players in the foreign exchange market. The ABCON chief pledged the commitment of all BDCs in collaborating with the apex bank to sustain the gains recorded by naira against the dollar. NAN further reports that the CBN, had on Monday, pegged the selling rate for Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) at   ...

​ President Muhammadu Buhari met some governors at the Presidential Villa on Thursday, March 16 - The governors are attending a meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC) - Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo is presiding over the meeting President Buhari this afternoon met state governors during the ongoing NEC meeting at the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock. Governors signing the attendance register at the meeting According to Daily Trust, President Buhari went round inside the Council Chambers to shake hands with all the governors in attendance. After the president exchanged pleasantires with the governors, journalists were thereafter asked to leave. Few minutes later, the president left for his office, even as it is not clear what the president discussed with the governors. Cross section of the governors at the meeting This is the president's first interaction with the state governors since his return to Nigeria on Friday, March 10 from his medical va...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said the registration of candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination will be for a period of one month. Speaking to newsmen on the sideline of a stakeholders’ meeting attended by owners of CBT centres nationwide, organised by JAMB at the University of Lagos on Monday, March 13, the registrar of the board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said that the sale of the 2017 UTME forms will begin on March 20 and end on April 19. This is unlike previous years which used to be for a period of three months. According to him, the period of registration was reduced to eliminate all ills associated with prolonged registration of candidates. He stated that the board would not extend the period of registration of candidates the Computer Based Test (CBT) UTME. Oloyede added that over 600 public and private centres had been approved for the conduct of this year’s UTME nationwide. JAMB first introduced the computer-based test...

Teachers of Federal Government Girls’ College (FGGC) Calabar were reportedly beaten by men of the Department of State Service (DSS) who allegedly stormed the school and ordered all the staff out of their office on Thursday, February 2. The teachers claimed they were severally beaten because a student was reprimanded by a teacher. According to Vanguard, the student who is in senior secondary class, reportedly took some junior students to sweep her class, an act that did not go down well with a teacher, Mr. Owai Owai, who decided to punish the entire senior students of the class for disobeying his instructions not to force junior students to sweep their class. DSS storm school, beat teachers who reprimanded a student Owai, the Civic Education Teacher, said: “One of the students, grabbed the collar of my shirt, which prompted me to flog her more But she went outside and made a phone call to her mother, who is said to be a DSS official. “I was in the SS 2 class, teac...