About 1.2 million applicants are presently competing to clinch 1,112 job openings to be filled by the Nigeria Immigration Service, Premium Times exclusively reports. The paper had on Monday reported that the Service is recruiting 1,112 officers in its ongoing recruitment drive, according to its Comptroller General, Muhammad Babandede. Speaking …
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Barely 24 hours after the Ondo State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, released the list of 18 commissioner-nominees, some women in the state on Wednesday faulted the list, saying the governor was biased for not including many women on the list. The governor on Tuesday sent the names of the 18 …
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Nigerian police are considering charges against 42 men arrested in Lagos on account of their alleged homosexuality, the latest example of the country’s tough stance against the gay community. In 2014, former president Goodluck Jonathan signed the same-sex marriage prohibition bill, forbidding marriage, same-sex cohabitation and any “public show of …
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Roselyn Okokingho, a breastfeeding mother of a nine-week old baby who was kidnapped in Towon Brass, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State by gunmen, regained her freedom on Tuesday, according to family sources. Pius Okokingho, husband to the kidnapping victim, said on Wednesday that his wife had spent two …
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New Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata turned down a move to Tottenham Hotspur because he feared the competition from striker Harry Kane, Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino has claimed. Morata, 24, joined champions Chelsea from Real Madrid last month for a reported fee of £58 million ($76.8 million, 64.7 million euros). Pochettino …
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An investigative journalit has rejected 700,000 cash which was given to him as a bribe to kill a story in Kano state. Nasiru Salisu Zango who describes himself as a whistle-blower and Human Rights fighter – currently works with Freedom Radio Kano, was presented with the “incentive” to cover up …
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The Grand Master Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Baba Bisi Akande and Gov Abiola Ajimobi today paid a condolence visit to Governor Ogbeni Aregbesola over the demise of his mother. See photos below
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The #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) movement today in Abuja undertook a peaceful protest to demand the release of the remaining 113 Chibok school girls, and to condemn last week’s gruesome killings and abduction by Boko Haram terrorists of oil exploration workers and lecturers of the University of Maiduguri. The demonstration began at the …
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Drug-resistant gonorrhoea spreads from an infected person’s throat during oral sex, the World Health Organisation has warned. The world health body says the human throat acts as a ‘silent reservoir’ for gonorrhoea, and that the problem is driving the drug-resistance crisis currently being experienced in the treatment of gonorrhoea. Drug-resistant …
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A horrified wife discovered that her husband had repeatedly raped her while she slept. She found shocking videos of the attacks on his mobile phone. The disgusted victim saw the sickening footage when she grew curious about an app called ‘Video Locker’ on her husband’s phone and decided to investigate. …
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