The National Universities Commission ( NUC) has abolished the award of Pass Degree in Nigerian Universities with effect from the 2013/ 2014 academic session. Prof Abdullahi Zuru, the Vice Chancellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, disclosed this on Wednesday at the 2014/2015 matriculation of 4,133 students of the institution. “This has far reaching implications on the grading system of students …
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The Police Service Commission, yesterday approved the immediate redeployment of 16 police commissioners in the country in line with it’s drive to reposition the police for optimal performance. Those affected in the exercise include the Commissioner of Police for Ekiti State, Fredrick Lakanu who has been moved to Ogun State. Others include Ibrahim Idris formerly in charge of Police Mobile …
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Chad, yesterday, sent ground troops into Nigeria for the first time, to fight Boko Haram in a sign of increased regional pressure on the Islamist rebels after weeks of surging violence. The city was raided by Islamists from Nigeria’s Boko Haram, killing eight cameroonian soldiers and leading the population to flee on October 15, 2014, before another six coordinated attacks …
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As the nation prepares for the general elections this month, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, yesterday handed down a serious warning to all judicial officers in the country saying ‘judiciary must never again be used as tool to truncate our democracy’. The CJN gave the warning while swearing-in the 242 judges who have been selected to …
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By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr. DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON – Members of the U.S. Congress today presented the Congressional Gold Medal the highest U.S. civilian honor Congress can bestow to the First Special Service Force, made up of U.S. and Canadian troops who participated in the emancipation of Europe and helped end World War …
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By Jim Garamone DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON – The battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is not a U.S. war, it is a large international effort to defeat a crazed and barbaric ideology, Pentagon press secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said here on Tuesday. ISIL burned a captured Jordanian pilot alive in January. …
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The presidency, Monday received from the Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) the forensic report on the alleged unremitted oil revenue by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to the Federation Account. In a ceremony witnessed by the Auditor General of the Federation, Mr. Samuel Ukura, President Goodluck Jonathan, who received the report from the firm’s Country Senior Partner, Mr. Uyi Akpata, said …
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the service of court documents on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, in relation to a suit seeking to among others, restrain him from participating in the February 14 election. Justice Adeniyi Ademola ordered a substituted service of the court documents on Buhari and the …
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission ‘INEC, has extended the deadline for collection of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs. This comes as the federal government, state commissioners of education and stakeholders in the education sector are meeting today to deliberate on whether or not to close public and private schools during the election. With the extension, registered voters who are yet to …
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THE Rivers State High Court at Degema, Degema Local Government Area, was engulfed by fire in the early hours of today. Eyewitnesses said the fire started at about 4.00 am, but the cause of the inferno could not be ascertained. Almost all parts of the building were destroyed in the fire, which started barely 48 hours after the directive from …
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