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A black man has been shot dead by police in the US state of Minnesota as protests continued over the police killing of a black man in Louisiana. Philando Castile’s girlfriend live-streamed the St Paul incident’s aftermath, showing him covered in blood as an officer pointed his gun at him. Philando Castile was a school cafeteria supervisor He was shot as …

Abuja—The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led caretaker committee of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, formally took over the national secretariat of the party with representatives of all the party’s major organs in attendance. The take-over, which should have signalled the formal return of peace to the party, however, proved not to be the case as the former national chairman, Senator Ali Modu …

Fresh, resonating calls are being made for the scrapping of national tertiary admissions clearing house, JAMB, over controversies generated since Education Minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu announced the scrapping of post-UTME tests by universities. Earlier in the week, after a meeting with administrators of universities and other tertiary institutions, the Joint Admissions & Matriculations Board announced yet another system by which …

OVER 10,000 teachers will soon be recruited into the services of the Edo State Government to address the paucity of teachers in some local government areas of the state, Prince Stephen Alao, chairman of the state Universal Basic Education, SUBEB, has said. The SUBEB boss who disclosed this yesterday, said that contracts were currently being awarded for the construction of …

The Federal Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in the tertiary education sub-sector have agreed to peg the fee for the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination screening at N2,500. This was contained in a statement by the Secretary-General, Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Prof. Michael Faborode, on Wednesday in Abuja. Faborode said the agreement was reached after a meeting of …

Washington (CNN)- FBI Director James Comey relied heavily on eight words Tuesday when recommending that no charges be brought against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server. “No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” Comey said. The comments triggered a fierce debate between former prosecutors, government officials and legal experts on the exact definition of “reasonable” …

Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete who killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, by firing four bullets through a closed toilet door, has been sentenced to a lower than expected six years in prison. The sentence, given by Judge Thokozile Masipa in the high court in Pretoria, may be the final chapter in a story that attracted intense …

A survey from 16 countries has shown that millennial entrepreneurs fit into five distinct personas: •The study gives insight into how to hire, engage and do business with these ambitious young people •61 per cent will sacrifice profit to stay true to their values – rising to 78 per cent in South Africa and 83 per cent in Nigeria •66 …

President Muhammadu Buhari has told militants in the Niger Delta that they have no choice but accept that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable. He therefore urged them to change their minds and support a peacful effort to turn Nigeria around. Buhari, who spoke on Wednesday while receiving a cross section of Nigerians mostly Muslims who came to his residence within …

The streets of Zimbabwe’s main cities are deserted during a nationwide stay away to protest at the lack of jobs and unpaid wages. The protests were organised through the messaging site WhatsApp but it is not clear which group is behind it. The internet was often unavailable on Wednesday morning but the government has denied blocking it. The BBC’s Brian …