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A former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Peter Okebukola, says the commission’s plan to make Medicine and Dentistry post-graduate programmes was long overdue. He said such initiative would not only put an end to producing “baby doctors,” it would also ensure that graduates emerging from the programmes were psychologically mature to practise, with a high level of …

A suspected suicide bomber intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up claimed to be one of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014, military and local government sources have told Reuters. Two girls carrying explosives were stopped by local self-defense forces in the village of Limani, in an …

Nigeria has indicted more than 300 local and foreign companies and individuals, including senior military officers, over an arms scandal. They are accused of defrauding the country of $241m (£170m) in fake contracts, a government statement says. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a probe last year after funds meant to buy weapons to fight Boko Haram militants were allegedly diverted. More …

The grim economic situation in the country appears to be deepening by the day as 27 states in the country are finding it difficult to pay the salaries of their workers. President Muhammadu Buhari said this in his remarks at the second National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja on Thursday. Buhari said this in reference …

Minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has disclosed that the lingering fuel scarcity being experienced in all parts of the country may last for the next two months. He, however, said he is working round the clock to ensure that the fuel queues disappear and pleaded with Nigerians to be patient. Dr Kachikwu made this disclosure yesterday …

The House of Representatives has rescinded its earlier move to stop the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board from using only Computer-Based Test (CBT) mode in the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Chairman, House Committee on Basic Education, Honourable Zakari Mohammed, who spoke on Wednesday, in Abuja, said the lawmakers were convinced based on the brief received from …

The Senate, on Wednesday, passed the 2016 Appropriation Bill presented to the lawmakers by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 22, 2015, with emerging revelations indicating that salaries and entitlements of some ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) were missing in the budget. Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Danjuma Goje, who made the revelation in the report of his committee, said …

•N1.587trn for capital expenditure •N2.646trn as recurrent expenditure •N351.37bn as statutory transfers •N1.475trn for debt service •N2.2trn for fiscal deficit •Benchmark of $38 per barrel for crude exports •N197 to dollar foreign exchange (Tribune)

ABUJA—The Police Service Commission, PSC, has commenced the process of recruiting 10,000 men into the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, warning against any form of shortcut during the exercise. This is in response to the presidential directive that more Nigerians be recruited into the force to boost its personnel. To this ends, a portal for the recruitment, which begins on April …

By Alltimepost.com Following several months of complaints and some protests against frequent power outage in Edo State, The Government has condemned the poor performance of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) which it blamed for the darkness at the State Police Headquarters in Benin City. At a meeting with the management of the company at the State House in Benin City …