PMB Backs el-Rufai Over
Planned Sack Of 21,780 Teachers
President Muhammadu Buhari has
thrown his weight of support behind Kaduna State governor, Nasir el- Rufai, on
the plan to sack teachers who failed the competency test conducted by the state
government.
About 21,780 out of 33,000 teachers
were said to have failed the primary four test administered on them to test
their competence.
Leadership
Nigeria recovers $64.63m
electricity debt from Benin, Niger
The Federal Government on Monday announced that it had
recovered $64.63m electricity debt from the Republics of Benin and Niger.
According to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing,
Babatunde Fashola, the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company has been
directed to work out the modalities for the distribution of the money to power
producing firms across the country.
Punch
Several injured as
policemen, students, clash in Oyo
The Oyo State Commissioner of
Police, Abiodun Odude, has said four cops were admitted to a hospital after
being injured in a clash between the police and students of the Federal College
of Agriculture, Moor Plantation, Apata, Ibadan, on Monday.
The commissioner added that eight
police vans were also damaged in the clash.
Punch
Dino Melaye, Bello
rift: Onaiyekan unveils plan
The Metropolitan Catholic
Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has promised to intervene in the
feud between Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, and Senator Dino Melaye.
Onaiyekan said the cold war between
Bello and Melaye was no longer helping the state.
Daily post
UI gets 1st class
History graduate
For the first time in 69 years, the
University of Ibadan (UI) has produced its first graduate with a First Class
honours degree in History.
Vice-Chancellor Prof. Idowu
Olayinka said Ozibo Ekele of the Department of History was one of the 186
students who made First Class at the 2015/2016 convocation ceremonies, which
began yesterday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Olayinka said 5,629 students
graduated in various academic programmes from 12 faculties, including the
Distance Learning Centre.
The nation
\Nnamdi Kanu sacked as
IPOB leader, Director of Radio Biafra
The international media arm of the
proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Radio Biafra, has resumed
operations.
But instead of the fiery rhetoric
with which it was associated with, the radio announced the sack of Nnamdi Kanu,
as director and leader of IPOB.
Daily post
2 civil servants jailed
105 years for fraud in Abuja
An FCT High Court sitting in Jabi
on Monday sentenced two civil servants, Mohammed Audu and Yusuf Ayodeji, to 105
years imprisonment, for fraudulent activities.
The convicts who were Procurement
Officers in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, were
arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in July 2016.
Daily trust
JAMB to meet with stakeholders
on UTME
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) says it will meet with “critical” stakeholders in education today to
appraise the general conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(UTME)
Its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin,
told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Lagos that the meeting,
scheduled to hold in Abuja, would brainstorm on the conduct of the examination
and identify possible areas for review.
The Nation
Four hospitalised over
communal clash in Kwara
No fewer than four persons have
sustained severe injuries from a communal clash between Osi and Etan, Ekiti
local government area of Kwara state.
The injured are currently recuperating
in the hospital.
The clash which started on Saturday
night, it was gathered, was traceable to an age-long dispute between the two
communities.
The Nation
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