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It was a painful sight yesterday, when a mother of two children, aged three and five, who died in a morning fire at 7, Ifelodun Close, Aralamo Bus Stop, Ajasa Command area of Lagos state, was being consoled by friends and family members and loved ones. The cause of the fire that consumed the bungalow of 3 rooms could not be ascertained.

The residents were reportedly fast asleep when the fire started. It attracted sympathizers, who made efforts to put it out the fire. It was gathered that fire fighters were not called in on time. When they eventually arrived at the scene, the victims were recovered dead, with their mother wailing.

The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Razak Fadipe, confirmed the development to newsmen, said the fire was well alight when his men arrived the scene.
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MANY residents of communities in Ikorodu in Lagos State, have fled their homes for fear of being attacked by militants who have taken over the area.

The fleeing residents told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos that life had become unbear­able for them following activities of the group.

According to them, the militants have laid siege on the community for two weeks consecutively, robbing, vandalising, kidnapping, raping and maiming their victims.

They also steal domestic animals and raw foodstuffs.

They told NAN that the gang was armed with dangerous weapons in carrying out the incessant nefarious activities.

The fleeing residents of Igbo- Olowu community told NAN that they had sent an SOS to the Lagos State Police Command over the de­velopment.

Full of fright, the residents added that many of them had to vacate their abode for fear of further attacks and mo­lestations.
http://mediamatters.com.ng/militants-take-over-ikorodu-communities-in-lagos-state/

Nigerian soldiers enroute Azare on a special operation were involved in an auto crash on friday at Gaya, Jahun federal highway that left 36 of them seriously injured. Gaya, 65km south of Kano is a strategic town that connects Maiduguri via Dutse, and Jahum—Katagum federal highways.

Sule Adamu told newsmen that the incident occurred along Gaya—Jahun federal highways at about 7.30 in the morning when the convoy shortly after missing its way tried to turn back but was hit by another vehicle from behind. Sule Adamu said that “the impact was very heavy as the vehicle conveying 36 officers lost control and threw off its occupants in various directions.

“we immediately deployed public spirited individuals to the scene of the accident, and the injured soldiers were taken to Gaya General hospital, and most of them are in very critical condition.”

http://medianaija.com.ng/36-soldiers-involved-in-ghastly-motor-accident-survived/

Globacom on Friday sacked 54 of its power engineers across the country and gave no official reason for the sacking.

It was learnt that the affected workers received official notification from the company that it no longer needed their services.
The notice of disengagement, it was gathered, also instructed them to submit their staff identification cards and customised Subscriber Identification Module cards with immediate effect.

The sack read in parts, “This serves to inform you that your services are no longer required by Globacom Limited.”

“Consequently, you are advised to report to the Human Resources Manager, Globacom Manpower Services Limited, the outsourcing company, with immediate effect.”
It also read, “You are also expected to hand over all company property which includes SIM card, company ID, etc, issued to you during the course of your services with us.
“We wish you all the best in your future endeavours, one of the affected engineers described the sacking as a “huge shock.”
http://mediamatters.com.ng/globacom-sacks-54-staffs/

The Igbo yesterday re-examined themselves and resolved to think home so as to develop the Igbo nation.
Igbo leaders who were at the Igbo Unity Forum gathered in Owerri, Imo State capital to take this decision reasoned that the state of the nation today makes it imperative for the people to look inwards and to build Igboland.

The Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo made this possible as it called out those in government and traditional institutions of the South-East states to a think-tank in Owerri tagged Igbo Unity Forum.

The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Ogariwy, in his welcome speech said the Igbo group has been striving to be the mouth-piece of the people of the region without being successful. He was, therefore, happy that they had succeed in closing ranks in order to move the race forward.

“We have never had it like this in coming together to proffer solutions to Igbo problems,” Igariwey said.

He noted that the Igbo are very adventurous and great achievers, pointing out that the Igbo contributed over 30 per cent of the development of Lagos and have helped in developing Abuja too.

The president general of Ohanaeze therefore, called on the Igbo to now think home to replicate those things they have done in Lagos and Abuja in Igboland.
http://medianaija.com.ng/igbo-unity-forum-igbo-leaders-call-on-the-people-to-build-igboland/

Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, (PENGASSAN) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG) have called off their strike.

The both unions decided to suspend the strike after a long meeting with Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment.

The both unions had embarked on the strike following what they called anti-labour activities.

PENGASSAN said the anti-labour activities included “delays in passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), unjust termination of appointment of the Port Harcourt zonal secretary by Total Exploration and Production (Total E&P) Nigeria Limited, retardation of staff promotion in the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NNRA), non- standardisation of nomenclature and collective bargaining in line with what obtains in other agencies in the oil and gas industry, refusal of the management of Petrostuff Nigeria Limited and Sudelletra to recall sacked staff”.
http://gistportal.com.ng/oil-workers-call-off-strike/

THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said the points system as criteria for admis­sion into tertiary institutions in the country was a mere il­lustration.

This was contained in a statement by the board’s Head of Media and Informa­tion, Dr Fabian Benjamin, yesterday, in Lagos.

JAMB said the Federal Government had approved re-enforcement of admis­sion guideline as recognised by law.

According to the state­ment, admission of candi­dates into tertiary institu­tions would be based purely on three pillars namely: mer­it, catchment and education­ally less-developed states.

The statement, candidates are to present their Senior School Certificate Exami­nation (SSCE) results/Ad­vanced Level (AL) results for verification and clearing purposes.

It said West African Ex­amination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and NBTE results or its equivalent are acceptable as matriculation requirements.
http://mediamatters.com.ng/jamb-says-new-points-system-is-not-the-requirement-for-admission/

Leaders of Christ Global Network has commended the President Buhari led administration on its fight against corruption in the country, saying, every culprit must be probed regardless of his party or region affiliations.

Speaking, the leaders, led by Apostolic Presbyter, Bishop Taiwo Akinola, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital also cautioned the Mr President on the national grazing reserve bill and the crisis in the Niger Delta and urged him to “tread with caution” in dealing with such issues.

Addressing journalists on the new wine 2016 tagged “the state of the nation” the Christian leaders, who cut across different denominations, said the issue of Niger Delta should be handled with care. Bishop Taiwo said though the violence in the region should be condemned the President, however, needed to tread softly, saying ”two wrongs don’t make a right.”
http://medianaija.com.ng/ogun-state-christian-leaders-commends-president-buhari-fight-against-corruption/

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Niger on Saturday paraded three suspects who were caught with a human head.

Mr Philip Ayuba, the Commandant of NSCDC in the state, told newsmen in Minna that the suspects were arrested in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state.
He said that the suspects aged 34, 35 and 24 hail from Ekpa village in Mokwa.

“ I invited you here to see three suspects that we arrested on the ground of possession of a human head.

“After we arrested them, they confessed to us that they own the human head,’’ he said.

Ayuba said the suspects were arrested on Thursday while negotiating the sale of the head in Mokwa.
http://mediamatters.com.ng/3-suspects-arrested-with-human-head-in-niger-state/

The Army headquarters on Saturday afternoon released the statement below announcing the killing of 16 Boko Haram terrorists who attacked troops stationed at Rann, in Kala Balge local government areas of Borno State.

“Yesterday evening remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in their numbers attacked our troops location at Rann, Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno State.

“The terrorists came with Motorcycles Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (MCBIED), Anti-Aircraft Guns and other weapons at about 5.00pm and the exchange of fire lasted for some hours before they were overwhelmed by the troops firepower.

“Unfortunately, one of the terrorists’ suicide bomber detonated himself at a gun truck killing the driver and the gunner.
http://medianaija.com.ng/nigerian-troops-kill-16-boko-haram-terrorists/

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Thursday said that the dialogue approach adopted by the Federal Government with militants would end the ongoing bombings of oil facilities in the Niger Delta.

The NSCDC Commandant General, Alhaji Abdullahi Muhammadu gave the assurance while speaking to journalists in Minna.

“The Federal Government has commenced negotiations with some of the aggrieved militants in the region on the need to sheath their swords and embrace peaceful resolutions of all perceived grievances that led to the bombings of oil pipelines in the region. “To the best of my knowledge, I think the Federal Government is already negotiating with them.

“At the last meeting we had, we discussed at length and very soon all these bombings will come to an end.

“The government is trying to negotiate with them with a view to finding out why they are doing it so in order as to get to the root of the problem.’’
http://mediacity.com.ng/nscdc-says-bombing-of-oil-pipelines-in-niger-delta-will-soon-end/

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The New JAMB Proposed Model For Admission Screening - So many persons have been calling to ask what should be the ideal model for Admission into various universities since Jamb have scrapped off the existing format which was the POST UTME. Well, that controversy have been put to rest because The Joint Admission And Matriculation Board did holed a meeting at the B.O Ukeje Auditorium, Nation Commission for colleges of Education, Central Business District Abuja on Tuesday 28th, 29th and 30th to map out strategic admission screening modalities for Colleges of education, polytechnics and Universities across the federation.

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JAMB Releases How Admission Screening Will Be Done

The permanent secretary ministry of education, Dr. Shade Yemi-Esan was the very person who actually chaired the meeting. While the meeting went on, the evaluation and the screening models of some schools in previous years and other factors surrounding the admission processes in tertiary institution in the country where put into a deep consideration, and finally JAMB released a proposed model which will be used for the screening of recommended candidates.


Below is the PROPOSED JAMB MODEL FOR SCREENING OF RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced the release of its guidelines for the 2016 admissions’ process.

The method, described as the point system option, was adopted after an extensive one-week meeting JAMB had with universities and other tertiary institutions’ administrators in the country.

According to the guidelines contained in a statement placed on its website on Monday night, JAMB said that the modalities were going to be based on point system.

While explaining how the admission process would work for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates and direct entry students, the organisation stated that universities were going to charge fees for screening of candidates at the end of the process for admission.

According to JAMB, the new method uses a point system to offer provisional admission to candidates.

“Before a candidate can be considered for screening, he/she must have been offered a provisional admission by JAMB.
http://mediacity.com.ng/jamb-uses-point-system-option-for-2016-admission/

Governor Rochas Okorocha has ordered payment of three months salary arrears to Imo State civil servants.
With the governor’s directive, workers will get April,May and June salaries at once.

Okorocha, who gave the directive at the weekend during a meeting with Directors of Accounts, Treasurers and Permanent Secretaries at the Government House, assured that henceforth, salaries of civil servants would be paid as and when due.

The governor also set up a committee which would be liaising with the directors of Accounts and the stat’s Accountant-General every month to ensure prompt payment of the salaries of civil servants.

However, Okorocha explained that the 70 and 30 percent revenue sharing formula between labour and the state government does not mean that workers would get only 70 percent of their salaries at the end of each month.
The governor said they could get more, depending on the revenue profile of the state at a particular month.


http://mediamatters.com.ng/civil-servants-in-imo-state-gets-3-month-salary-arrears/

The Catholic Church in Enugu State on Saturday held mass rallies protesting violent activities of herdsmen in the state.

The three Catholic dioceses in the state, Nsukka, Awgu and Enugu, staged separate rallies and expressed their anger at the menace posed by herdsmen.

Priests and lay members of the Catholic Church turned out in their thousands for the peaceful rallies in Nsukka and Awgu dioceses.

However, the Enugu Catholic diocese shelved its plan to march to the Government House, where they intended to deliver a petition to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

The Diocese had earlier announced that it would march from the Holy Ghost Cathedral, through the streets of Enugu metropolis, to the Government House on Saturday.

The march was tagged “Diocesan peaceful prayerful protest march.”

But the planned march failed to hold after Ugwuanyi and some members of the state executive council visited the church.

Our correspondent learnt that the church leadership called off the march after they were informed of an alleged plan by miscreants to hijack the event.
http://gistplus.com.ng/catholic-church-protests-against-fulani-herdsmen-attack-in-enugu-state/

A 54-year-old man, Gbenga Adebayo, has been remanded in prison custody by a Magistrate’s court in Ado Ekiti, for allegedly abducting and defiling an 11-year-old girl.

It was gathered that Adebayo lured the girl to his aged mother’s place in Ushi Ekiti, about 60km from Ado Ekiti, where he was allegedly visiting her regularly and sleeping with her.

Adebayo deceived neighbours by joining the search team for the girl.

Bubble, however, burst when the girl refused to cooperate with him again and demanded to see her family.

Adebayo then took her to one of her aunts in Akure, whom she lied to that he found the girl wandering about.

Suspecting a foul play, the aunt reported the matter to the police. The victim during interrogation confessed that the suspect had slept with her not less than 10 times where he had hid her.

The victim while narrating her ordeal said, “He is my neighbour. He used to ask me to buy things for him. One day he approached me, saying he wanted to help me because my teacher was harsh on me. He said he would rescue me from my teacher and take good care of me.
http://medianaija.com.ng/a-man-of-54yrs-abducts-defiles-11-year-old-girl-in-ekiti-state/

The Niger Delta Avengers has announced fresh attacks on major oil and gas installations in Nigeria.
The militant group said it carried out attacks on facilities operated by Chevron and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC.

It said it bombed an NNPC pipeline conveying crude to Warri refinery in Delta State on Friday night.
Between Saturday night and early Sunday morning, the group announced four more attacks against oil facilities. All the reported attacks happened in Delta State.

“At 11:26 p.m. on Saturday, @Niger Delta Avengers blow up (sic) two NPDC major crude trunk lines close to Batan Flow Station in Delta State.

“At 1:15 a.m. on Sunday, @Niger Delta Avengers blow (sic) up two major Chevron oil wells. Well 7 and Well 8 close to Abiteye Flow Station in Delta State,” the group said in tweets posted on its Twitter handle.

The group also said all the attacks were carried out by one “strike team.”
http://mediamatters.com.ng/niger-delta-avengers-announces-new-attacks-n-chevron-nnpc/

A 52-year old man, John Vin­cent Arinze, who claims to be an evangelist based in South Africa, has become an un­willing guest of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) which is quizzing him over N1.4 bil­lion worth of narcotics found in his food stuffs at Apapa port, Lagos yesterday.

According to the Spokes­man of NDLEA, Jarikre Ofoyeju, the 92kgs of meth­amphetamine and 73kgs of ephedrine were detected in­side two containers of food­stuff meant for export to South Africa by the agency’s sniffer drugs.

He added that the man was arrested in a hotel room in Lagos after the illegal goods were traced to him.

The drugs, Ofoyeju stated, were hidden inside packs of melon concealed in foodstuff and cosmetics such as Gari (cassava flakes), noodles, Knorr and Maggi food sea­soning, yam powder, Malt drinks, pepper, milk, herbal hair cream and Golden Morn cereals. Other items in the container are Damatol hair Cream, bags of Melon, Kegs of palm oil, beans, biscuits, sardine and Cartons of orijin bitters.
http://mediacity.com.ng/ndlea-quizzes-self-acclaimed-pastor-over-n1-4bn-seized-drugs/

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