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JAMB Automates Admission Process, Others
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has floated a new platform, Integrated Brochure and Syllabus System (IBASS), to ease admission process into higher institutions. Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede said the digital system will allow JAMB liaise with regulatory agencies ...
Read More »Air Peace Suspends Flights Into Dubai Over Visa Ban
Air Peace airline, yesterday, announced suspension of its Dubai operations indefinitely over inabilty of Nigerians to get visa to the country. In a press statement by Airpeace management and a copy made available to LEADERSHIP, the airline said their operation ...
Read More »LCCI Seeks Govt Enabling Business Environment
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has called on governments at all levels to address the issues of enabling environment in the country. The president of LCCI, Dr. Michael Olawale-Cole stated this at the closing ceremony of the ...
Read More »Oil Marketers Blame Disruptions On NIMASA, NPA Dollar Charges
The Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria has blamed charges in foreign exchange by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) as creating disruption in market operations. The marketers have, therefore, asked the agencies ...
Read More »NITDA, JICA Partner To Boost Startups In North East
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have mapped out strategies to boost startup businesses in Nigeria’s North East region ravaged by insurgency. This was the crux of the NITDA-JICA North East ...
Read More »PFAN Meets Otedola, Seeks Help For Ailing Nwosu
President of the Professional Footballers Association of Nigerian, Tijani Babangida, says talks are ongoing with billionaire businessman Femi Otedola to aid former Super Eagles midfielder, Henry Nwosu, who has been hospitalised for weeks over an undisclosed ailment, The PUNCH reports. The PUNCH ...
Read More »Tackling Nigeria’s Food, Nutrition Insecurity
Food and nutrition security remain one of the cardinal essentials of a healthy society and globally, despite concerted efforts put in place to ensure sustainable food production, hunger and lack of nutrition continue to persist. African countries such as, Ethiopia, ...
Read More »2,000 Fish Farmers Receive Inputs From FCT Administration
No fewer than 2,000 individuals and fishery cooperative groups from the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have benefitted from the minister of state for FCT, Dr Rama Tijjani Aliyu’s distribution of assorted fishery inputs to fish ...
Read More »Oil Theft: FG Arraigns 16 Foreigners, Detains Vessel
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has arraigned 16 foreigners for offences bordering on conspiracy, stealing, attempt to deal in crude oil and false pretences. The foreign nationals were caught onboard a vessel, MT Heroic Idun. ...
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