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WASHINGTON – North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commanders are putting in place the infrastructure that will allow the alliance to adapt to new threats, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the press on Wednesday at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium. Stoltenberg spoke alongside Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, NATO’s supreme allied commander, after NATO commanders briefed …

Abuja- By Alltimepost.com Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for debunking speculations that his government had orchestrated a plan to fire the nation’s electoral chief, Dr. Attahiru Jega. The Organization’s Executive Director, Mr. David Ugolor delivered the commendation in Abuja recently while commenting on the president’s assurance that he would vacate office if …

Candidates sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) will henceforth get their results two hours after leaving the examination hall. Already, over about 97,000 candidates who sat for the exams recently have seen their scores. Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB), Prof Dibu Ojerinde, on Wednesday told newsmen during a supervision exercise that the scores were sent to the mobile …

Benin, Edo, Nigeria – By Oladipo Airenakho As Nigeria prepares for the polls on March 28 and April 11, this year, Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has advised Members of the National Youth Service Corps who will work as election ad-hoc staff to shun politicians’ advances to rig the elections. Oshiomhole gave the advice on Wednesday at the opening …

As 37 Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) meet today to critically examine the complaints generated at last weekend’s trial run on the card readers in 12 selected states, there are a number of questions and issues the INEC has to address. The polity is still divided on whether or not the card readers should …

Yenagoa—Indigenes of oil producing communities from the six states of the Niger Delta yesterday disrupted vehicular movements along the East-West Road axis of Bayelsa State in protest against alleged diversion of $16 billion compensation paid by Exxon Mobil for the 1998 oil spill incident in the region. The aggrieved communities, which cut across Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Cross River …

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sacked Lt. Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (retd.) as the Chairman of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, five days after the former Chief of Army Staff delivered the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s 78th birthday lecture. The President has named Mr. Ishaya Dare Akau as Agwai’s replacement. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media …

Network failure and delay characterised the commencement of this year’s Unified Tertiary Institution Examination in many centres in Jos, Plateau State and Lagos; findings by our correspondents have shown. This came even as a former National Universities Commission’s Executive Secretary, Prof. Peter Okebukola, hailed the leadership of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for embarking on a full-scale Computer-Based Test in …

BENIN—THE Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, Prof. Osasere Orumwense, yesterday reeled out his five years strategic plans for the university, announcing that his administration would ensure the payment of staff salaries on the 19th of every month. Declaring this at the UNIBEN Strategic Plan Forum, which coincided with his one hundred days in office, the vice chancellor, who …

A former Head of State, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, on Tuesday called on Nigerians to give President Goodluck Jonathan the benefit of doubt on his assurance not to shift the re-scheduled general elections slated for March 28 and April 11. The former military leader made this remark while speaking with newsmen in Kano during the inauguration of Kano Informatics Institute, Kura. …