JAMB extends 2023 UTME registration by one week
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has extended its 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination registration by one week.
The extension began from Wednesday, February 15, 2023.
However, the sale of ePINs will end on February 20,...
FG orders closure of Universities for elections
THE Federal Government has directed all Universities and Inter-University Centres to shut down and academic activities suspended from February 22 to March 14 over the forthcoming February 25 and March 11, 2023 general elections.
The...
Deadly Earthquake:Buhari commiserates with Turkey, Syria Pledges Support
President Muhammadu Buhari extends heartfelt commiserations to the governments and people of Turkey and Syria, and those who lost family and friends in the devastating earthquake in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.
The President...
COVID-19: TETFund inaugurates 1st indigenously developed vaccine
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) on Monday, inaugurated the first indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate for preclinical trials in Nigeria.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Vaccine Development Consortium was formed...
Epidemics: WHO harps on effective health system
The fight to curb epidemics anywhere in the world would not achieve reasonable results, if there are no strong and effective health systems in place, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
This is as...
NYSC gets 8 new Directors,elevates another 1,123
GOVERNING Board of the National Youth Service Corps has promoted eight members among the Management Staff of NYSC to the position of Directors on salary grade level seventeen (17).
They are; Aremu Kehinde, Abdullahi Yusuf...
FG releases new rice, 20 other crop varieties to boost food sufficiency
As part of the efforts to make Nigeria food sufficiency in rice and other crop production, the Federal Government on Thursday released a new rice variety, known as FARO68 and 20 other crop varieties...
‘Japa’ syndrome: We are being overstretched – Doctors lament
The Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN) says the nation is losing its medical personnel to better organised global settings, leaving the remaining healthcare workers in government-owned hospitals to be overstretched.
The National President of PAN,...
Police Insurance Scheme: IGP Commences Distribution of Over N13bn to About 7,000 Permanently Disabled...
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has commenced the distribution of cheques to cover Insurance benefits of officers who lost their lives while in service, as well as those who suffered various...
Nigeria Confirms 42 New Cases of COVID -19
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed 42 new COVID-19 infections in the country in two weeks, with Lagos State recording 27 cases.
The NCDC made this known via its official...
