JAMB releases 2013 results

Oho!.....it has been released....i pray we hear no suicide stories,.....

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. The board, however, withheld 12,110 results for possible disciplinary action.

The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, announced this at a news conference on the release of the results in Bwari, FCT, today Friday May 3rd.

The registrar said after thorough processing of answer scripts of the candidates who sat for the examination, the board discovered some forms of malpractice perpetuated during the conduct of the examination.

President Goodluck Jonathan's New year message to Nigerians

President Goodluck Jonathan's New Year's message's to Nigerian outlined government initiatives for 2013.

"We will give priority attention in the coming year to flood and erison control, the rehabilitation and expansion of roads," he said.

GEJ also spoke on the issues of employment and security. Nigeria has suffered numerous incidents of kinappings, armed robbers, and attacks by Boko Haram in 2012.

The Nigerian President closed by urging Nigerians to become more involved in supporting the improvement of the country.

Full Text of the President Jonathan's New Year's message

26 years minimum required age to be a driver in Nigeria

The FRSC announced recently that the Minimum age required for an individual to start driving in Nigeria is 26 years.

According to Christopher Ademoluti,Kwara State sector commander of FRSC while speaking at the inauguration of commercial driver’s licence in Ilorin said the measure would ensure that only mature commercial drivers would have the opportunity to drive and convey others.

“We want to peg the minimum age of a commercial driver in Nigeria at 26 to enable them have the experience, maturity and expertise to drive and convey people, unlike the present situation where we have underage people like 16-year-olds driving commercial vehicles,” he said.

Osaze faces life ban from Super eagles for insultive comments

Super eagles player and West Brom playmaker, Osaze odemwingie has been slammed with a life ban from the super eagles after he posted some insultive comments on micro blogging website, Twitter.

Unhappy at being left out of the provisional 32-man squad that will begin camping in Faro this week, Osaze lashed out at head coach Stephen Keshi and the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF). Osaze had said that Keshi has no footballing reasons not to invite him to camp and criticized the way he found out about being dropped via the media rather than from the coach himself.

Another terrorist group emerges:Ansarul terrorist organization

This is very unforunate for a country like Nigeria, we have not yet dealt with the menace known as ''Boko Haram'' yet another terrorist group has surfaced.

They call themselves Ansarul Terrorist organization, this is actually an abbreviation of their full name which is  Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina fi Biladis Sudan.

INEC deregisters 28 political parties

The Independent national electoral commission (INEC) has axed out 28 political parties, reducing the list to almost half of it's initial number.

The electoral body announced this on Thursday, affected by this action are Pastor Chris Okotie’s Fresh Democratic Party; Balarabe Musa’s Peoples Redemption Party; and the National Reformation Party, founded by the late nationalist, Anthony Enahoro.

Below is a statement released by the commission,