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The House of Representatives has rescinded its earlier move to stop the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board from using only Computer-Based Test (CBT) mode in the conduct of the Unified Tertiary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 …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole recently poured encomiums on the President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Rev. Felix Omobude, describing him as a man of God who provided a platform for young Nigerians to acquire skills in technical education. Oshiomhole made the remarks at a fund raising dinner for Rev. Felix Omobude Foundation in Benin …

Physician of Nigerian origin practicing abroad have given the Federal Government some conditions under which they can transfer their services home, among which include granting them low interest loans and high reduction in tariff of transportation of medical equipment into the country. But the Senate swiftly advised them to seek request for the former from the governments of America and …

After weeks of delay, both chambers of the National Assembly received a report on the 2016 budget on Tuesday from the Senate and the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Appropriation. The report retained the corrected total budget figure of N6.07tn as presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari. There were strong indications that the two chambers of …

Donald Trump’s campaign entered a new phase Monday as he went to Washington to prove that he’s more than a rabble-rousing outsider. The billionaire businessman, who built his campaign eviscerating Washington, met with a group of high-profile Republicans in the afternoon in an apparent attempt to improve his tense relations with the party. He will address the American Israel Public …

Havana,Cuba  -A day after making a historic arrival in Cuba, U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro expressed hope that reforms would finally arrive to the island, despite the persistent grievances on both sides. In an extraordinary sign of the shifting attitudes, both leaders took questions from reporters following prepared statements, a rarity in a country where media …