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The House Committee on Maritime Safety, Education and Administration has advised the management of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN) to sack 83 staff employed in 2016 without due process. Hon. Mohammed Umar-Bago, Chairman, House Committee, gave the advice when he led a delegation of the committee on an oversight function to the academy in Oron on Friday. “Rector, the issue of this 83 staff, sack them if their employment did not go through due process, that is how touts are employed. Any employment that does not have approvals means there was never any employment in the first place. “It does not make sense to have 700 staff in an academy of just 300 cadets. That means the academy is over bloated. I will encourage you to right-size. Even if people don’t like it, it must still happen.” “Don’t be distracted. There is a triangle in MAN, Oron, the first is gossip. They will gossip about you, about every other ...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has bowed to pressure and amended the part of its 2018 May/June Examination that clashed with the Friday Juma’at prayer. The affected subject is Chemistry 1 and 2, which was originally slated for 2pm to 5pm on Friday, April 20, 2018. The Director of Public Affairs, WAEC Nigeria, Mr Demianus Ojijeogu confirmed the slight amendment following reactions from Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC). “For the sake of the people who will go to the mosque, the exam will be delayed till they come back. “The paper will be delayed till 2:30 pm or 3 pm, when the Muslims will return from the mosque,” Mr Ojijeogu told Premium Times on Saturday “ Ishaq Akintola, President of MURIC, had said it was an “injustice” against Muslims, whom he claimed had become “endangered species”. According to him, WAEC has been fixing examinations during Jummat time for some years which is “illegal, unconstitutional and unlawful.

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has slammed Presdient Muhammadu Buhari for walking on a red carpet during his visit to Dapchi, Yobe State where over 110 students were recently kidnapped. President Buhari on Wednesday arrived Yobe State for his official visit , alongside the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima and the presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu. However, during the visit to the school, where the school children were were kidnapped, Buhari was seen walking on a red carpet. In a tweet, the governor said, no President would walk on Red Carpet during a visit to a State where 110 school girls were abducted. Fayose tweeted, ”In saner climes, no President will walk on Red Carpet during a visit to a State where 110 school girls were abducted by insurgents and their whereabouts is unknown.”

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Academic Staff Union (ASUU) of IBB University Lapai, says it has commenced an indefinite strike, due to the nonpayment of its N530 million outstanding allowances by the Niger state government. ‎Dr Salahu Lawal, ASSU Chairman, IBB University Chapter, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Lapai, on Saturday that the decision was taken after the expiration of the week-long warning strike embarked by the union on March 7. He said that the chapter executives were invited by the state government over‎ the issue but they were unwilling to pay the allowances that had accrued since 2009. “Niger state government begged us that it will pay N350 million while we forfeit N150 million; we cannot afford such a loss, it is huge. “This is the money we worked for and it has to be paid us in full; actually, they wanted to pay us but they insisted in paying N350 million; that is a breach and we are not going to take it. ‎“This...

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RUSTENBURG - Lawyers representing 19 Nigerian men, accused of dealing and possession of drugs as well as contravening of the Sexual Offences Act, on Monday, pulled out of the case at the Rustenburg Magistrate's Court. The two lawyers told the court they feared for their personal safety and that of their families. This was the second case in Rustenburg, where lawyers pulled out of case were Nigerian nationals are accused of a crime. Another lawyer representing 14 Nigerian men accused of public violence, pulled out of the case in February, citing safety reasons. This was after eight houses occupied by Nigerians were set alight on January 10, following allegations that the houses were operating as brothels and drug houses. The 14 Nigerian men were expected to appear in the Rustenburg Magistrate's Court on April 4, for trial. They were denied bail after they told the court it would not be safe for them if they were released on bail. The 19 men were found...

Below is a full transcript of Gov. Samuel Ortom’s statement to President Buhari in Markurdi, Benue state today; “On behalf of the Government and good people of Benue State, I welcome the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari to Benue State, the Food Basket of the Nation. As a helpless child in trouble looks forward to the rescue by a father, so the people of Benue looked forward to seeing you. Welcome sir. Benue people have always believed in you which is why we voted massively for you in the 2015 General Elections. 2. You are our father and we appreciate your visit here in the hope that our lingering challenges will be over. You are known as a man of integrity and uprightness and you have always fought for justice. 3. Your Excellency, on January 11, 2018, we buried 73 citizens, including women and children. All of them were brutally slaughtered in their sleep by armed herdsmen in the early hours of the New Yea...