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Former Zimbabwean long serving president Robert Mugabe died peacefully today at his home in Harare, according to a statement from his family. The cause of death was not given. A statement from Mugabe’s wife, Grace Mugabe, said: “My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Robert Gabriel Mugabe, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather has passed away at 94 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country.” President Emmerson Mnangagwa issued a statement saying that he and first lady Auxilia Mnangagwa were “greatly saddened” to hear of the former president’s death. “Ex-president Mugabe was a great Zimbabwean who gave many years of dedicated service to our country,” Mr Mnangagwa said. “The Zimbabwean people will always admire Robert Mugabe’s devotion to duty, his personal character, and the honorable conduct of his administration. We mourn the loss of such a leader, and our longest serving pre...

1.6M CANDIDATES STARTS JAMB EXAMS The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede yesterday said 1,662,762 candidates will write the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) between March 9 and 19. He made the statement at a media conference in Bwari, Abuja. He said the Computer Based Test (CBT) would hold in 605 centres nationwide and candidates must adhere strictly to the date and time given to them “as any candidate who fails to turn up on schedule automatically misses the examination.” He said a total of 367 blind candidates would take the tests as against the 201 last year and that the board would provide necessary support to physically challenged candidates. He said 1,662,762 candidates registered for the test this year as against 1,718,425 last year which represented the decrease of 3.2 percent. “The drop in the number of candidates for this year’s UTME is largely due to the measures put in ...

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2018 CAMPAIGN THEME :PRESS FOR PROGRESS March 8 sees the annual IWD campaign theme kick off for the year ahead, although many groups around the world adopt and promote the campaign theme from early in the year. The IWD campaign theme provides a unified direction to guide and galvanize collective action. The campaign theme does not end on International Women's Day. It's just the start. Throughout the year many groups worldwide adopt the IWD campaign theme for further campaign work, gender-focused initiatives, continuing activity and events International Women's Day belongs to all communities everywhere - governments, companies, charities, educational institutions, networks, associations, the media and more. Whether through a global conference, community gathering, classroom lesson or dinner table conversation - everyone can play a purposeful part in pressing for gender parity. So make International Women's Day YOUR day and do what you c...

UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI VOWS TO RETURN TO CHAD BASIN TO CONTINUE OIL EXPLORATION. The University of Maiduguri has defied the abduction of its lecturers that lasted over eight months by the Boko Haram insurgents by expressing its willingness to align with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to resume oil exploration activities in the chad basin. Leading the three lecturers and the management team of the university on a visit to the NNPC, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Ibrahim Njodi, said despite the harrowing experience of the abducted, the freed lecturers and the entire university community We are ready to remobilize for oil exploration in the Chad Basin. The Vice-Chancellor, however, said he regretted to announce the demise of one of the victims of the attack, Muhammed Alhaji Kolo, who died as a result of gun-shot wounds inflicted on him by the insurgents. Professor Njodi expressed profound gratitude to the management of NNPC led by the GMD Maikanti Baru, saying the...

Third Edition of Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students' (NFCS, University of Maiduguri Chapyer) Ministers' conference was held from 5th to 6th of March 2018. It was aimed at clarifying issues relating to Ministering in the house of the Lord and was indeed a success. Speaking on the First day of the conference Bro. Emmanuel Onyekwere explained ministeration in his own words as "the service of God to the people God ". He discussed extensively on the following topics The need for all ministers to partake in the 15 minutes preparatory prayer which is before the start of every fellowship. The need for all Moderators and Speakers as well as the regular Ministers (I.e. Praise Band, Drama Band, Lumen Christi Press, Prayer Team, Ushering Team) to abide by the NFCS fellowship schedule and adhere to time specified for each ministration and also, The need for speakers to prepare their talks along the topics for every fellowship. He also spoke on the framework of the NFC...

Philomina Chieshe, the official of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), who claimed that the boards N36 million was swallowed by a snake, has made a U-turn. Chieshe, who works as a clerk at the JAMB office in Markurdi, Benue state, had told top officials of the examination body that a “mysterious snake” swallowed the money derived from the sale of JAMB scratch cards. But when she appeared before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), she confessed that the money was collected by one Samuel Umoru, her superior. According to The Nation, the EFCC has interrogated Chieshe on several occasions since she made the ridiculous statement in February. “The interesting aspect of the disclosure is that Chieshe’s statement (on snake swallowing the money) was obtained long before the snake and naira swallowing testimony became public knowledge,” an EFCC official was quoted as saying. “In all her statements before the ...

Barring any last minute change, this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), will begin on Friday. It is scheduled to hold from March 9 to March 17. The board’s Head of Media and Information Department, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Sunday was insistent that the exams will go on as planned. While announcing that candidates for the 2018 UTME can start printing their examination notification slip from Tuesday, March 6, he said: “Candidates can now go ahead and print their examination notification slips from Tuesday. “These candidates must ensure that these slips are printed before Friday, March 9 in order to farmiliarise themselves with the examination schedules as no form of excuse for missing the examination will be entertained. “We want to warn that the board will not reschedule any examination for anybody and so any candidate that fails to adhere strictly to the examination schedule as stated in their slips should have himse...