By Tina George, Minna The Council for the Regulation of Engineering of Nigeria (COREN) has disclosed that the country has registered 58,000 engineers, including 2,000 technologists, 1,000 technicians and 1,000 craftsmen. The council’s registrar, Professor Joseph Odigiri disclosed this to newsmen during the 1st Nigeria Society of Engineers, NSE, Minna Branch Engineering Conference, which took place at the Federal University of Technology, Minna. The Registrar, who harped on the need for engineers, technicians and craftsmen to update their skills and knowledge, lamented that many professionals still operated with the residual knowledge they have acquired many years ago. Odigiri noted that…
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A Wuse Zone 2 Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, has fixed July 23 for the arraignment of two staff members of the Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority (OGFZA) for alleged forgery and falsification of documents. Magistrate Mabel Segun-Bello, fixed the date following the suspension of the 64-day industrial action embarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN). The new date had been communicated to parties in the suit through hearing notices served on them by the court bailiff. The arraignment was, on April 26, stalled due to the strike action The court had, on March 16, gave the Commissioner…
The Zamfara House of Assembly has resolved to investigate an alleged diversion of N1.258 billion intervention fund by the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund to Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in the state. This is contained in a statement by the Director-General, Press and Public Affairs of the House, Mr Mustafa Kaura in Gusau on Friday. Jafaru-Kaura said the resolution followed the adoption of a motion by the Majority Leader, Mr Faruku Dosara during plenary on Thursday. Dosara said the money was released by the agency to PHCs to augment their urgent healthcare needs. “He said each of the PHCs was allocated…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of candidates who sat in more than 720 CBT centres for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted between June 19 and June 22. Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB Spokesperson made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Friday. Benjamin advised each concerned candidate to check his/her result by sending UTMERESULT to 55019 through the GSM number used by each candidate to obtain profile code and UTME registration with the board. He said that their results would be relayed to them immediately after following the…
Barely three days after some lawyers wrote to the Senate seeking the Red Chambers to discountenance “conspiracies” against the confirmation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Lauretta Onochie as INEC National Commissioner, another group of lawyers dated Monday 21 June 2021, has again been sent to the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The letter from Jackson, Kargbo & Co in Abuja, signed by Samu I P. Kargbo and titled, “Re: Appeal for the non-confirmation of appointment of Mrs Lauretta Onochie as INEC Commissioner”, was addressed to the INEC Committee Chairman as a counter to an earlier petition…
On Tuesday, the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development invited me to make a presentation on the best strategies for democratising Nigerian democracy. Their concept paper was clear – Nigerians are getting extremely frustrated that the democracy they fought for and won has very little dividends for them as citizens. The future pathway is one of rising apathy as the people see the political class as perpetually serving their own interests rather than that of the people. Significant improvements in the quality of our democracy are therefore necessary to make people regain confidence that even at its worst, democratic…
The external and domestic debts from loans taken by the federal and state governments have risen to N33.11 trillion, as at March 31, according to latest figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday. The NBS, who stated this in its “Nigerian domestic and foreign debt for Quarter one, 2021 (Q1 2021)”, added that upon disaggregation, the nation’s total public debt indicated that N12.47 trillion or 37.67 per cent of the debt was external, while N20.64 trillion or 62.33 per cent of the debt was domestic. “The federal government’s domestic debt stock alone was put at N16.51…
The Police Command in Kaduna State, on Thursday confirmed the kidnapping of 12 persons in a fresh attack on a community in the state. The abductors were said to have invaded Awon/Mothercat Junction in Kachia local government and kidnapped the victims on Wednesday. The Command’s spokesperson, ASP Mohammed Jalige, who confirmed the incident in Kaduna, said two of the kidnapped victims were rescued. According to him, the attackers invaded the area at about 9:20pm and shot indiscriminately at law abiding citizens who were gathered for various legitimate activities. “On getting the information, a joint team of the Police, Military and…
President Muhammadu Buhari will proceed to London, the United Kingdom on June 25, for a scheduled medical follow-up. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday. “He is due back in the country during the second week of July, 2021,’’ the presidential aide stated. The president returned from his previous medical trip to London in April.
The Sokoto zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested three suspects over alleged N3.5 billion online investment fraud. The zonal head, Mr Bawa Kaltungo made the disclosure while addressing newsmen on the achievements of the Zone on Thursday. Kaltungo said the Zonal office received a complaint from UBA, which centred on an account in the name of Annexation Business Concept, opened by one of the suspects. “The account had a turnover of over N3.5 billion within a period of six months. “In the course of investigation, we discovered that the operation of the account was…