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CHRISTMAS BOMBING IN JOS: FOUR ARRESTED

2011-12-25T11:27:00.000-08:00

The Plateau State Government has condemned the explosion attack on Mountain of Fire Ministries in Jos, north Central Nigeria on Christmas day, with an assurance that perpetrators will be brought to book as some arrests have been made. Special Adviser to Plateau state Governor Jonah Jang on Media and Publicity, Ayba Pam, while speaking to the press at the scene of the incident commended the

MEND ENDS CEASE FIRE

2010-01-31T00:00:00.000-08:00

The main rebel group in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta says it is ending the ceasefire declared last October. MEND said it did not believe the government would restore control of resources to local people. MEND has demanded that residents be given a greater share in profits from oil resources and land. In a statement announcing the end

PZ CUSSONS NIGERIA JOB VACANCIES

2010-01-23T01:43:00.000-08:00

PZ CUSSONS IS RECRUITING ITS FUTURE FINANCIAL LEADERS AS PSRT OF ITS CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, PZ CUSSONS IS LOOKING TO TAKE IN 4-6 VIBRANT, ENERGETIC AND INTELLIGENT CANDIDATES THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GROW WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION AND EVENTUALLY TAKE ON LEADERSHIP ROLES IN FINANCE. SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WITH PERFORMANCE AND INTEREST, WILL BE GIVEN EXPOSURES TO FINANCIAL ANALYSIS,

JOIN NIGERIAN AIRFORCE: APPLICATION OPEN FOR AIRMEN AND WOMEN

2010-01-23T01:25:00.000-08:00

This is a great opportunity for all those interested in joining NIGERIAN AIRFORCE, just follow the underlisted steps to apply 1.All Interested candidates are advised to apply online at After reading through click on the link below to apply click to apply 2. Applicants are to complete form online and make payment at the following designated bank: Intercontinental Bank 3a. Applicants can

MAY AND BAKER JOB VACANCY

2010-01-23T01:14:00.000-08:00

ZONAL SALES EXECUTIVES AND HEALTHCARE BUSINESS EXECUTIVE May & Baker Nigeria Plc, a key player in the Nigerian Healthcare & FMCG market with strong brand presence, seeks to recruit for Zonal Sales Executive & Healthcare Business Executive. We at May & Baker Nigeria Plc is committed to applying our resources and science to improve the quality of life 1.Zonal Sales Executive Reporting to the

MASS BURIAL CONDUCTED, AS 18,000 ARE RENDERED HOMELESS IN JOS

2010-01-22T08:34:00.000-08:00

The International Committee of the Red Cross, the ICRC says that up to 18,000 people are homeless after days of sectarian violence in Jos the capital of Plateau state. People have been sheltering in colleges, hospitals and schools since clashes began on Sunday, at the Red Cross estimates that more than 460 people in and around Jos have been killed. Authorities have relaxed a 24-hour curfew in

EFCC SEIZES CECILIA IBRU'S PROPERTIES

2010-01-19T09:23:00.000-08:00

There are more troubles for the former CEO of Oceanic Bank of Nigeria Plc Mrs Cecilia Ibru. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has confiscated 103 choice properties it alleges belong to the former bank chief. The commission says some of the properties were bought with funds belonging to Oceanic Bank. A list released by the anti-graft body shows the location of the

FRESH CRISIS SPREADS IN JOS: 24HOUR CURFEW IMPOSED

2010-01-19T08:42:00.000-08:00

Despite the calmness, initially experienced yesterday in jos, renewed hostilities occurred at Rikkos, Bauchi ring-road, Ali Kazaurf, Congo Russia and Katako area of Jos this morning. According to our correspondent, with the resumption of hostilities in Jos this morning, Plateau State government in consultation with the state security council, reviewing prevailing situation in Jos metropolis

PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA ENDS SILENCE, SAYS: I'M GETTING BETTER

2010-01-12T11:06:00.000-08:00

President Yar’Adua is alive and still receiving treatment in the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. President Umaru Yar'Adua told the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, in a telephone interview, his first since he was admitted in to the hospital in November said he is recovering. President Yar’Adua said he hope to make a “tremendous progress" and return home to

UNCONFIRMED RESULTS SAYS: PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA'S BRAIN IS DAMAGED

2010-01-11T10:12:00.001-08:00

As the National Assembly resumes on Tuesday January 12, 2010 after the Christmas and New Year break, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka will be leading a protest rally same day in Abuja to force the National Assembly to resolve the problem of vacuum created by the absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua since November 23, 2009 for medical reasons. Soyinka, Bakare, Ojukwu, Buhari And

NIGERIA AND 13 OTHERS ON U.S TERROR LIST

2010-01-04T15:50:00.000-08:00

America has officially added Nigeria to a list of countries that sponsor terrorists, clearing the way for the “enhanced screening of all holders of the Nigerian passport,” as security officials put it. The measure will affect any American-bound air passenger travelling through “state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest” such as Pakistan, Yemen, and Nigeria, according to the

UNIVERSITY OF PORT-HARCOURT SUPPLEMENTARY ADMISSION LIST

2010-01-04T15:06:00.000-08:00

The university of port-harcourt (UNIPORT) has released its supplementary admission list for the 2009/2010 admission session.All candidates can view and or download the admission list by clicking on their respective faculties below or you can go on to visit the university official website: uniport.edu.ng HUMANITIES SOCIAL SCIENCES SCIENCES EDUCATION MANAGEMENT SCIENCES COLLEGE OF HEALTH

DUBAI OPENS WORLD TALLEST BUILDING

2010-01-04T14:15:00.000-08:00

Once-bustling Dubai will open the world's tallest skyscraper on Monday, boasting new limits in design and construction, hopeful of polishing an image tarnished by the debt woes afflicting the Gulf emirate. Emaar, the giant property firm part-owned by the government and which developed the needle-shaped concrete, steel and glass structure, has declined to reveal Burj Dubai's exact height.

JOB VACANCIES AT G.E OIL AND GAS: REGIONAL IT LEADER INFRASTUCTURE JOB

2010-01-02T18:34:00.000-08:00

The G.E group in the oil and gas sector is recruiting for the post of a Middle East and Africa Regional IT Infrastructure Leader in Ikoyi - Lagos, Nigeria.The Role ;Summary/Purpose of the Middle East and Africa Regional Infrastructure Leader will have Strategic and Operational responsibilities for the definition and delivery of GIS IT services in the region, with particular focus on countries in

UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA REELEASES 2009/2010 ADMISSION LIST

2010-01-02T17:55:00.000-08:00

The university of Nigeria, Nsukka has released its 2009/2010 admission list. All candidates that choose the university of Nigeria, Nsukka as their first or second choice and also sat for the university post-ume examination are advised to check their admission status. All candidates that sat for the above examination are advised to visit the university website at unn.edu.ng or click on the

DEATH TOLL FROM BAUCHI CLASH CLIMBS TO 70

2009-12-31T16:50:00.000-08:00

Dozens more bodies were recovered after violent clashes between security forces and Islamists in northern Nigeria, bringing the death toll to around 70, a count at a hospital morgue showed on Wednesday. Reports reaching us mention that 42 bodies were seen on the floor of the morgue in the city of Bauchi, all with bullet or machete wounds. Another 25 bodies, mostly young people including minors,

COURT FREEZES ERASTUS AKINGBOLA'S ASSETS

2009-12-31T16:10:00.000-08:00

Nigerian anti-graft agency,the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] on Thursday, December 31 got a Mareva injunction [also known as a freezing order] from a London court to freeze all the global assets of the former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Mr. Erastus Akingbola after discovering funds allegedly belonging to the bank's depositors traced to Akingbola's foreign

ESUT: ENUGU STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADMISSION LIST IS OUT

2009-12-30T21:25:00.000-08:00

Goodnews to all those who applied to Enugu State University of science and technology because the admission list has been released. All the applicants for the 2009/2010 admission session can now check their admission status online. Candidates can also click on this link to check their admission status. http://www.esutportal.net/LoginPage.aspx?ReturnUrl=/Education/ProspectusStudent/

JOB VACANCIES AT TRITHEL CONSULTING NIGERIA LIMITED

2009-12-30T01:34:00.000-08:00

Trithel, a member of the British Quality Foundation, and a frontline and strategically focused, indigenous, world-class consulting firm is currently looking to recruit hard working individuals who have demonstrable, significant track record and possess wealth of experience for the following vacancy: RECRUITMENT OFFICER • Candidates must possess a good degree in any of the Social Sciences, and

NCC BARS THE SALE OF SIM CARDS ON THE ROAD

2009-12-29T21:10:00.000-08:00

The Nigerian Communications Commission has said that beginning from March 1, 2010, the sale of Subscriber Identification Module cards will no longer be permitted on the streets. Security concerns about mobile telephony have been on the increase following the use of the technology by kidnappers, militants and other criminals. The criminals often obtain SIM cards and use them to perpetrate

I WAS LONELY, SEEKING TRUE MUSLIM FRIENDS; SAYS FAROUK

2009-12-29T20:38:00.000-08:00

WASHINGTON—The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner apparently turned to the Internet for counseling and companionship, writing in an online forum that he was “lonely” and had “never found a true Muslim friend.” “I have no one to speak too [sic],” read a posting from January 2005, when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was attending boarding

BABANGIDA ARRIVES; WEEPS

2009-12-29T20:08:00.000-08:00

Minna—It was a gathering of the who’s who in the nation’s business and political firmament at Minna, yesterday, to await the arrival of former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), his son, Mohammed, and the body of the former First Lady, Mrs. Maryam Babangida, who died of ovarian cancer in a U.S hospital on Sunday Babangida arrived in a chartered German aircraft marked CS-DPF

AL-QAEDA CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR FAILED PLANE ATTACK

2009-12-29T01:51:00.000-08:00

Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the failed bid to blow up a passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas Day as President Barack Obama vowed the US would not rest until the plotters had been brought to justice Abdulmatullab 23, defied his family's pleas to remain at the university and graduate, instead travelling to the terrorism hotbed of Yemen to study Arabic and Shariah law. The FBI

NYSC 2010 BATCH A MOBILIZATION TIME-TABLE

2009-12-29T01:39:00.000-08:00

The timetable and other details for the NYSC 2010 batch A 2010 Batch A Orientation Camp starts on 9th to 30th of March NYSC MOBILIZATION TIME-TABLE FOR BATCH A NYSC 2010 Batch A Pre-mobilization workshop meeting 19th Nov, 2009 Submission of NYSC 2010 Batch A Masterlist 3rd – 14th Dec, 2009 Action on NYSC 2010 Batch A Master list by Mobilization Officers - Vetting etc. 7th – 16th, Dec,

ANOTHER RELIGIOUS CRISIS ERUPT IN BAUCHI: 8 PEOPLE KILLED

2009-12-29T01:21:00.000-08:00

Eight people are reported to have been killed following another round of sectarian violence in Zango a suburb of Bauchi metropolis in the northern region of Nigeria. A sect called ‘Kalakato’ which means giants of the living went on rampage demanding for the release of its leader arrested by the authorities. The notorious sect is claiming to be the remains of the original Maitasine sect of