The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged prospective candidates for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to crosscheck the data on their registration forms for the last time on May 6. The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the call in an interview on Saturday in Lagos. The call comes ahead of the 2017 …
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A pro-democracy and good governance group, Concerned Nigerians, has threatened to shut down the country in peaceful protest if President Muhammadu Buhari fails to conduct a media chat in two weeks to let Nigerians know the true state of his health. In a statement signed and made available to newsmen by both its Convener, Prince Deji Adeyanju and the Secretary, …
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Washington (CNN) In a major victory for President Donald Trump, the House has voted to dismantle the pillars of the Affordable Care Act and make sweeping changes to the nation’s health care system. The bill now heads to the Senate where it faces daunting challenges because of the same ideological splits between conservative and moderate Republicans that nearly killed it …
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Gov Godwin Obaseki of Edo has said that his administration would build functional clinics and crèches in markets in the State. Obaseki said this after he made an on-the-spot assessment of facilities at the Oba market in Benin on Friday. The governor, displeased with the decayed toilets, non-functional clinics and poor power supply at the market, promised to revive and …
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A top intelligence analyst, who was part of the Obama administration, Mr. Matthew T. Page, has thrown light on the claim made by former Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, that the State Department invited 12 northern governors to Washington to seek their support on the need to achieve regime change in Nigeria during the 2015 Presidential election. Former President …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, May 5, 2017, told Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how the wife of the suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ayo Oke, Folashade, allegedly acquired the property situated at Flat 7B, 13, Osbourne Road, Osbourne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, where the sums of …
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Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday continued to flay comments by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the reasons Dr. Goodluck Jonathan lost re-election as president saying that Obasanjo’s comments were framed to show his disdain for his successors and position himself as Nigeria’s best ruler ever. Chief Clark, who returned to the country on Thursday after a medical check-up …
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By Alltimepost.com WASHINGTON — United States Defense Secretary Jim Mattis thanked Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz for his country’s initiative to spend two percent of its gross domestic product on defense, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said in a statement. According to the statement, Mattis in a telephone conversation, expressed his appreciation for Poland meeting the September 2014 NATO …
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By Jim Garamone – DoD News WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said yesterday that the U.S.-Australian alliance has been cemented by Australian and American service members who have shed their blood fighting common enemies for 100 years. The two men attended a dinner aboard the retired aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, now a museum …
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About a thousand people protested against Donald Trump in New York City on Thursday, as the president was set to make his first trip home since his inauguration. Demonstrators gathered on the west side of Manhattan at 2pm, blocks from where Trump was due to give a speech at the decommissioned USS Intrepid aircraft carrier. Many banged pots and pans …
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