Federal University of Technology Minna, FUT Minna, has taken a step beyond the reach of other Nigerian higher education institutions by putting its academic services and on-campus on the electronic devices of members of staff and students through a new innovation software called Phinnx. FUTMinna adopted the Phinnx web system, which is targeted at computerizing…
Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has promised to break the jinx of second term in the state. For a long time, no governor has served the state more than once. Ajimobi, while addressing some motor dealers in the state, boasted that his performance in office would end the myth in the state. He noted that…
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has disclosed that the 2015 general elections in Nigeria is not a do-or-die affair, as some politicians in the country are presently making it to look like. Ekweremadu made this declaration over the weekend at the Chinua Achebe Memorial Conference which took place at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu…
Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, has directed authorities of the Yola International Airport to commence full flight operations at the facility with the use of the newly-built terminal. She gave the order on Friday in Yola while inspecting the upgraded facilities at the airport. Oduah expressed satisfaction at the level of rehabilitation carried out at…
Mrs Dupe Onitiri-Abiola, one of the wives of late MKO Abiola, has officially declared her intention to contest in the governorship election in Lagos State under Accord Party come 2015. Onitiri-Abiola, few days ago, expressed her desire to occupy the Lagos Government seat of power in 2015. She had then said she was consulting with…
Premium Times reports that the Presidency has mounted pressure on the Senate to stop the probe of missing N8 trillion oil funds leaked to the public recently. The report is reproduced below; The Nigerian Senate has come under intense pressure from the presidency, the petroleum ministry and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to abandon…
The ‘political porting’ happening in Nigeria has still not stopped as 16 local council chairmen in Kwara State announced their defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday. They were also followed to their new party by their 194 Councillors. The decampees, under the Association of Local Governments…
**5-Month-Old Toddler Shot Dead During Breastfeeding Some unknown gunmen in Kaduna, on Friday, stormed the home of a 47-year-old security guard in the state and cleared all his family members, including him. The invaders, numbering about 20, unleashed terror on one Sunday Abin, who works with Robber Research Department of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture,…
In the build up to the 2015 general elections in Nigeria, the National Association of Mbaise Students, NAMS, has endorsed the Chairman, Governing Board, Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority, Chris Asoluka, as the preferred candidate for Imo East Owerri Senatorial zone. The group, in a press release jointly signed by the National President, Stanley…
Kano-based Abdulkadir Mohammed has been convicted and sentenced to nine years imprisonment for attempting to defraud a retired army General, Garba Ali, of the sum of N14 million in land deal. Mohammed was sentenced by Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court Kano, Wednesday, January 29, 2014. He was sentenced with an option of…