Federal Govt, UNDP Set To Launch 20,000 Graduate Job Fellowship Yearly

ABUJA — Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday, said the Federal Government, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and other private sector partners are set to launch a 20,000 yearly graduate job fellowship to be called the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme (NJFP). Osinbajo said the 12-month job fellowship programme would be flagged off by President Muhammadu Buhari and urged business leaders, captains of industry, development partners, and the diplomatic community to support the program aimed...

KADUNA — A Cadet Officer, at the Correctional Service Staff College, Barnawa Kaduna Mansur Sulaiman has committed suicide. Spokesman of the college, ASC A.D Wadai in a statement said the sad and gory incident took place on June 2, 2021. The statement read “I wish to announce the unfortunate death of one of the Cadets of the 28th Assistant Superintendent of Corrections Basic Course, Correctional Service Staff College, Barnawa Kaduna, named, Cadet Mansur Suleiman in...

Center for Information Technology and Development Presents Books On Hate Speech, The Compromised State In Yola

Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), has on Wednesday night presented two books in Yola, Adamawa state as part of efforts to enlighten the public on dangers associated with hate speech which breeds acrimony, and violence in society. Isa Garba, Senior Program Officer of CITAD while presenting the books entitled, “Context and content in hate speech discourse in Nigeria” edited by Jibrin Ibrahim and Y.Z Ya’u and “The compromised state, How corruption sustains insecurity...

Corpse Of NSCDC Female Officer Found In Shallow Grave

The news of Cynthia Oneche’s corpse being found has thrown the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Benue state command into mourning again as the remains of a female officer who was declared missing 18 months ago have been discovered in a shallow grave in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State. Josephine Cynthia Inalegwu Onche, an Idoma native of Otukpo origin, was serving with NSCDC post in the Otukpo area of the state...

Insecurity: Katsina State Embarks On Special Prayers

Katsina State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mannir Yakubu has pledged government commitment to sustain collaboration with security agencies in tackling armed banditry and other security challenges facing the state. Yakubu made the remark at a special prayer session for an end to insecurity organized by the 2018/2019 Forum of Caretaker Committee chairmen for Local Government Councils in the state. “The state government has since 2015 participated in several joint security operations and provided logistics support to...

University of Abuja Has Expel 46 Students Over Acts of Misconduct

ABUJA — The Senate of the University of Abuja has expelled at least 46 students over their involvement in various acts of misconduct in breach of their sworn matriculation oath. A statement made available to journalists by Dr. Habib Yakoob, Head, Information and University Relations that five other students were rusticated for one semester, the cases of three others involved in sundry offences would be retried, while seven accused students were exonerated, discharged, and acquitted....

Be Vanguard of Peace, Stability- Ganduje to Journalists

KANO — “The 2021 Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) Biennial Convention, with the theme “The Media in COVID-19 Era: Challenges and Opportunities,” was held in Kano. Speaking at the event Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje said the event was an opportunity to look into national development as it relates to media practice. “If and only if we as a nation are interested in peace and harmony, we must reject hate propaganda machinery. In the main, this is a...

National Directorate Of Employment Trains 50 Graduates On Entrepreneurship In Kaduna

KADUNA — No fewer than fifty graduates received training under the Start Your Own Business (SYOB) project of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Kaduna state. Sani Maiwada, NDE Kaduna State Coordinator said the SYOB is entrepreneurship development training for graduates of higher Institutions that obtained NYSC certificates. According to him, the government wants to see them being employers of labour at the end of the business training. “The essence of the training is...

Bandits Chased Away from Zamfara, Katsina States Find Safe Haven in Niger State-Sen. Abdullahi

Bandits chased away from Zamfara and Katsina states by the military were finding safe haven in Niger State. The Senator representing Niger North Senatorial District, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi stated this on Tuesday while raising a point of order on the floor of the Senate. The lawmaker lamented that five local government areas in his senatorial district have been under constant attacks by the bandits, explaining that between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, eight people had been...

Staff Of Kwara State House Of Assembly Robbed, Lost N10m To Armed Robbers

ILORIN — Armed robbers on Monday robbed staff of the Kwara State House of Assembly at the popular Circular Hotels on New Yidi road in Ilorin, the state capital. The robbery incident occurred at about 12.50 pm after three Accounts Department staff of the House of Assembly withdrew N10m from the Access bank along Wahab Folawiyo road in Ilorin. According to the victims, they drove out of the bank premises and moved towards Unity road...

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