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The Nigerian Police Force has said  that its recruitment test Nationwide Computer Based Test (CBT) will be conducted by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board  (JAMB). ACP Jimoh Moshood, Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, announced this in a statement  on Thursday. “The Nigeria Police Force wishes to inform all successful candidates in the last Physical/Credentials screening stage in […]Read More

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has released the list of fifty eight (58) unaccredited (illegal) universities in Nigeria. The Executive Secretary of NUC announced  the unaccredited institution  via  a bulletin dated, Monday May 14th, and obtained by www.www.aso.rocks search engine. According to him, the universities are not licensed by the federal government and have been closed down for […]Read More

The Chairman of Innoson Motors, Mr. Innocent Chukwuma, has been declared wanted by a Special Offences Court sitting in Lagos. He was declared wanted on Thursday following his continuous refusal to attend court proceedings for his alleged fraud trial. Justice Mojisola Dada issued the bench warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear in […]

The Federal High Court in Benin has ordered that the Chairman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, Chief Dan Orbih, be remanded in prison custody if he failed to perfect his bail. The court had on Thursday granted the Orbih and Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the 2016 governorship candidate, bail in the sum of N10 […]

Musiliu Smith, a former inspector-general of police, and Clara Bata Ogunbiyi, a former justice of the Supreme Court, have been named by President Muhammadu Buhari into the Police Service Commission (PSC) as members. Smith will serve as chairman. If he gets the nod of the Senate, he will replace Sir Mike Okiro, also a former […]

Buhari may have finally decided to accept the challenge thrown by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Speaking while receiving members of the Buhari Support Organization led by the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retired) at the State House on Tuesday, May 22, Buhari accused Obasanjo (without mentioning his name) of spending $16bn […]

Some people have made it a pastime to talk as if there is no silver lining in the sky as far as the Nigerian economy is concerned. They carry on as if it is doom and gloom all the way, a thoroughfare of woes. This they do, to hoodwink the public, and peradventure gain political […]

In my last article, titled “Achebe versus Obasanjo, Danjuma and Agbese”, I argued that bad political leadership is primarily responsible for the failed state of Nigeria, not corruption as many would like us believe. The duty of this article is to present some of the generally approved qualities of good political leadership and apply them […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the present administration decided to showcase its various projects across the country in response to critics who said the administration has not done anything to impact positively on the citizenry since assuming office The Minister stated this in Oyo Town on Tuesday when […]

The managing director/chief executive officer of Transcorp Hotels Plc, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, has lamented the neglect of the Nigeria’s tourism sector by governments at all levels. Ozigbo revealed that this was demonstrated by the abysmal marketing of the sector by relevant ministries and agencies of government. Speaking at a national tourism transport summit and expo […]

A civil society organisation, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), has called for a “full scale and wide-ranging investigations” into the administrations of former Nigerian leaders and bring all those who breached public trust to account. Reacting to the public spat between President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the organisation […]

It has come to the attention of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo that a statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari, apparently without correct information and based on ignorance, suggested that $16 billion was wasted on power projects by “a former President”.  We believe that the President was re-echoing the unsubstantiated allegation against Chief Obasanjo by his own predecessor […]