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The Senate calls on JAMB to increase the cut-off marks for students going into tertiary institutions to study education courses The Senate has called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB to increase the cut-off marks for students going into tertiary institutions to study education courses in order to get the best brains into the teaching profession. The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education, stated this while monitoring the ongoing National Personnel Audit by the Universal Basic Education Commission. The Joint admission and matriculation board (JAMB) and tertiary education Stakeholders in Abuja adopted 140 as the minimum cut-off mark for 2022 admission into the nation’s universities, 100 for Polytechnics and Colleges of Education. Many critics argue that this will encourage underachievement and lower standards in an education system already struggling with quality issues. It is an issue that arose during the Senate Committee on Basic and Se...

Nigeria Air To Borrow Aircraft To Begin Operations The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has given an approval to Nigeria Air to lease aircraft to enable it start operations as country’s national carrier. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said this on Wednesday while briefing State House Corespondents after the FEC meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The Minister, who did not disclose when the national carrier would start operations, said the company would begin with three aircraft. He said Nigeria Air was open to investment from any of the country’s airline companies, particularly the 51% shares set aside for Nigerians. “I presented two memoranda on national carrier to allow the Nigeria Air to lease aircraft to start operations. That has been approved by the Council

The Nation gathered the attack occurred between 8:00 and 9:00 pm when many residents were still returning to their homes. Though Kaduna Police Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Muhammad Jalige was yet to receive a brief on the incident as of press time, residents confirmed that about 36 persons were kidnapped. One of them, Maryam Sani, said: “The kidnappers came around a few minutes after 8:00 pm during the rain. So, people were not alerted early enough, because the rain was heavy. They kidnapped many people. Most of the people kidnapped were just returning home during the attack and they just ran into the bandits.” Another resident of the area, Usman Tahir, told our correspondent the bandits operated unchallenged, moving from house to house and breaking into homes to pick their victims.  Tahir said: “Many of us were still outside when the bandits attacked because it was quite early, around 8.30 pm. They came in a large number, shooting sporadically and brandishing ass...

  Terrorists assembling weapons to attack Buhari’s state – NSCDC The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has raised the alarm over a planned attack on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd.) state, Katsina, as well as Lagos, Federal Capital Territory, among others. The NSCDC stated that Boko Haram and Islamic State for West Africa Province terrorists, from the intelligence it gathered, have mobilised their fighters and had equipped themselves with dangerous weapons like Anti-aircraft guns, general purpose machine guns, among others, in preparation for the attack on the state which the president of the country hails from. These were contained in a leaked report addressed to all commands dated July 25 and sighted by our correspondent on Tuesday. The report titled, “Re: Heightened plots by terrorists to stage coordinated attacks in parts of the country” was signed by the Deputy Commandant General Controller in charge of Operations, DD Mungadi.  It read, “We h...

"..Then the National Anthem of Nigeria was played, tears rolled down my eyes. "When Tobi Amusan climbed the stage of the 2022 World Athletics Championships to pick up the Gold medal.. she had no tears streaming down her eyes. Then the National Anthem of Nigeria was played. Tears rolled down her eyes! Tobi Amusan remembered how a country that refused to sponsor it's athletes were enjoying stolen heroism. How criminal politicians will steal her personal efforts for their own social media publicity but none even came to her aid on the road to Oregon, USA. Tobi remembered the Ministry of Youth and Sports that dropped them in the middle of no where, no allowances, no proper care, was going to take an applause they didn't deserve. Tobi Amusan cried as the anthem of shame was played.  How the country made them look like thieves, bandits and unknown gun athletes as they were humiliated from one drug check to another. She remembered the particular incident of how they slept at...