SERAP DEMANDS EXPLANATION
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Buhari fires JAMB Registrar, 16 other chief executives
The Federal Government has announced the sacking of chief executives of 17 parastatals and agencies under the Ministry of Education. The government’s announcement was contained in a statement issued on Monday night by the Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations in the Education Ministry, Ben Bem Goong. Four Chief Executives whose tenures were yet to elapse were however retained, while others including the Registrar and Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, Prof Dibu Ojerinde were relieved of their appointments. The statement said the appointments were with immediate effect, precisely from Monday, August 01, 2016. The 17 agencies affected in the mass sack and the new Chief Executives appointed included the National Universities Commission, Prof Abubakar Adamu Rasheed; Nigerian Institute for Education Planning and Administration, Prof, Mrs. Lilian Salami; Universal Basic Education, Dr. Hameed Bobboyi and National Library of Nigeria, Prof....
Biafra agitation has become a spiritual movement- MASSOB
*Slams FG, MEND over conditions to free Nnamdi Kanu ENUGU—The Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, yesterday, lashed out on the Federal Government and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta who are currently engaged in a dialogue to end renewed bombing in the oil-rich Niger Delta, describing their condition to free detained Director, Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, as laughable. MEND had in a statement weekend through its spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, said that it proposed to the Federal Government, ”to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on the condition that he renounces the agitation of Biafra Republic” as resolutions to end the revolts in the South East and South South geopolitical zones. But frowning at the resolutions from MEND, a leader of MASSOB, Uche Madu , in a statement signed and made available to newsmen in Enugu, yesterday, insisted that the agitation for Biafra Republic was hinged on self determination which...
We’re in talks with Niger Delta militants – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja said his administration was talking to Niger Delta militants through oil companies and law-enforcement agencies to find a lasting solution to insecurity in the region. Speaking at a farewell audience with Michael Zinner, the outgoing Ambassador of Germany to Nigeria at the State House, President Buhari said the government was studying the instruments of the Amnesty Programme inherited from the previous administration with a view to carrying out commitments made that were undelivered. “We understand their feelings,” the president said. “We are studying the instruments. We have to secure the environment, otherwise investment will not come. We will do our best for the country,” he said. The president used the opportunity to thank the government of Germany for its continuing support to Nigeria in the efforts to tackle insecurity and the on-going rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced citizens in crisis areas in the North-Eastern ...