The Federal Government has approved the restructuring of six Federal Training Centres to tertiary institutions to offer Monotechnic programmes. . This is contained in a statement signed by Dr Tope Ajakaiye, the Director of Communications, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF) on Friday in Abuja. . The statement quotes the outgoing Permanent Secretary, Career Management Office, HOCSF, Dr Jamila Shuara as saying this while handing over to her successor, Alhaji Mohammed Abbas. . In the statement, Shuara, said the centres are Calabar, Enugu, Ilorin, Kaduna, Lagos and Maiduguri. . Shu’ara, while recounting her achievements…
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The Court of Appeal, Lagos, on Friday disallowed an appeal filed by former governor Rasheed Ladoja of Oyo State, seeking to quash a criminal charge preferred against him by the EFCC. . Delivering the lead judgment at the appellate court, Justice Saheed Bagir, upheld the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prosecute offenders under the money laundering Act. . Bagir held that the provisions of Section 14 of the Act gave the commission the power to prosecute persons charged with the offence of money laundering. . Besides, the court also held that by the provisions of…
The 24th Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) Games will be formally declared open on Saturday by President Goodluck Jonathan, an official said on Friday. . The biennial event which commenced on Wednesday with the arrival of student-athletes and accreditation will end on Feb. 22, Cecilia Arinye, a NUGA Council member has said. . Arinye, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the president was expected at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun for the ceremony. . She said: “The Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Bolaji Abdullahi is also among the expected dignitaries at the opening…
Respite came the way of the erstwhile Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole, Friday, as the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, discharged and acquitted him over allegation that he used fake companies and defrauded the federal government to the tune of N894 million while he was in office. . While upholding a no-case-application that was filed before the court by the former Speaker, Justice Evoh Chukwu, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, failed to establish a prima-facie criminal case against the accused person. . Consequently, Justice Chukwu, quashed the entire 16-count charge…
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, urged the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to promote national unity and development. . He made the call in his address to mark the passing- out of Batch `A’ 2013 corps members across the country, after the one-year compulsory national service. . The ceremony is taking place simultaneously nationwide. . The president enjoined the corps members to spearhead the transformation of the country and promote harmonious interaction among ethnic groups. . He reminded the corps members that their passing out marked the end of one phase of service to their fatherland and the beginning of…
Prof. Atahiru Jega, Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said the commission would not just sanction any of its officials without clear evidence of misconduct. . Jega said this at the Osun Stakeholders’ Forum for 2014 Governorship Election held in Osogbo. . The INEC chief told representatives of political parties that the state Electoral Commissioner, Mr Rufus Akeju, could not be removed as being demanded because the case was still in court. . Reports have it that protesters stormed the venue of the event at Leisure Spring Hotel Osogbo carrying placards with anti- Akeju inscriptions. . Some of…
At least 9 soldiers were feared killed in a deadly ambush by gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, in the border areas of Izhe in Madagali Local Government of Adamawa state. . Confirming the incident, chairman of Madagali, Mr Maina Ularamu, who could not ascertain the number of casualty said that the soldiers were on a mission to repel an attack. . ”The soldiers were going to repel a planned attack at Izhe border village when they were ambushed by the heavily armed insurgents. . ”As I am talking to you, most villagers at the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says sales of nomination forms for Ekiti and Osun state governorship elections slated for this year, will begin on Feb. 24 and March 14, respectively. . This is contained in a timetable made available to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Olisa Metuh. . According to the timetable, return of the nomination forms for the Ekiti governorship election would be from March 3 to March 6 while screening and appeal by candidates would take place on March 10. . Ward congresses, appeal, primary election and electoral appeal…
AHEAD of the 2015 general elections, a former senatorial aspirant of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Edo State, Mr. Theophilus Okoh, has vowed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, will do its best to ensure none of the current Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Assembly members from Edo Central senatorial district returns. . Okoh, who fielded questions from journalists in Benin, yesterday, however, blamed the party’s failure in the last senatorial election on internal wranglings, adding that the party had eliminated all pitfalls.
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has suspended the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Nma Onyechere, “with immediate effect”. . Confirming the development in a telephone interview, the Governor’s Senior Special Assistant, SSA, Media, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, explained that the suspension followed the unwarranted physical assault the woman unleashed on a serving Commissioner in the Local Government Service Commission, Chief Emeka Okoronkwo. . “Governor received a complaint that the suspended Commissioner physically assaulted a serving Commissioner in the Local Government Service Commission, Chief Emeka Okoronkwo”. . According to Mr. Onwuemeodo, it was the considered opinion of the…