Releases guidelines for interested applicants The Nigerian government has opened the application portal for the Nigeria Jubilee Fellow Programme which targets 200,000. Nigeria Jubilee Fellow Programme is aimed at getting work placement for Nigerian graduates who have completed the compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. President Muhammadu Buhari last Tuesday said the Nigeria Jubilee
The Taliban has declared Afghanistan an “Islamic Emirate”, and formed a new government to be led by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund. Akhund is one of the founders of the group, which took control of Afghanistan mid-August. “We know the people of our country have been waiting for a new government,” Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, said
An Ibadan High Court presided over by Justice Ladiran Akintola, Tuesday fixed September 17 to deliver judgment on the fundamental rights suit filed by Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho). The judge also ordered the extension of the injunction order restraining the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice,
Popular Yoruba historian, Prof Banji Akintoye, has given reasons for leaving Nigeria to Benin Republic. In an interview with BBC News Yoruba on Tuesday, Akintoye, who is also the leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua revealed that he left Nigeria due to reports that the Muhammadu Buhari government was planning to assassinate him. Akintoye said
There was tension in Umuahia, Abia State, on Tuesday, as the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, Aloy Ejimako, heads to court over Kanu’s health. The entire access roads to the court venue were blocked by truckloads of the military, police and other security agencies, thus creating fear in road users
Embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, has lambasted his over 10 lawyers in Cotonou, Benin Republic, over their collective failure to seek his release after about 50 days in detention. The detained activist spoke in a leaked audio obtained by The PUNCH. He slammed all his Benin Republic-based lawyers led
Says armed herdsmen are going nowhere, and they are already in battle gear A message has been sent to the federal government of Nigeria. The message was sent by no other person than controversial Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi. The cleric who condemned the current military offensive against armed herders and bandits insisted that the
Names Osinbajo chairman, health sector reform committee President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa as the new Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). This was disclosed in a statement issued yesterday by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, This followed the appointment of the current NCDC Director General, Dr.
The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a Fulani socio-cultural association, Monday urged the federal government to create a Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries “as obtainable in many African countries.” The association said this was in line with the recommendation of the Inter-ministerial Committee on Livestock Development in Nigeria 2015, the Report of the President Committee on
A woman, Emmanuella Anyanwu, who escaped from the hoodlums who reportedly killed late Olajide Sowore on Saturday, has said the gunmen demanded a ransom of N10m shortly before she escaped from the camp where she was kept with four others. Anyanwu, who said she was on her way from Lagos to Imo to bury her
