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The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has urged Nigerian youths to seek demonstrable skills as a means of survival, warning that very soon university degrees will no longer be the sole guarantors of jobs. Oloyede said this on Thursday at Kwara State University, Malete, while delivering the convocation lecture, titled “Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning -Prerequisites of the Digital Age.” According to him, “new opportunities will emerge in the high-tech sector, and many skills that were not otherwise taught in conventional schools would be needed. Degrees would no longer be the sole guarantee of jobs, but demonstrable skills would. “In this regard, there won’t be meaningful difference between the literates and the illiterates without the cutting-edge skills that are associated with the triad – learning, unlearning, and relearning.” He also said that the imperative of the triad in life cannot be overemphasized as the tonic that gi...

The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has issued a warning to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike. Primate Ayodele said President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, will fight Wike. In a statement by his media aide, Oluwatosin Osho, the clergyman said the former Rivers State governor will fail woefully. According to Ayodele: “Wike is going into oblivion. Nemesis will fight Wike. APC and Tinubu will still fight him. Wike has no career again; God has departed from him and he will be rubbished out of APC.’’ The political differences between Fubara and Wike had created tension and division in Rivers State. The differences led to an attempt to impeach Fubara by Wike’s loyalists in the state House of Assembly. Amid the crisis, the Assembly complex was set ablaze by unknown assailants. Within the week, 27 out of 32 members of the state assembly had defected to APC, while the remaining five lawmakers continued with...

Nigerian entertainer, Afeez Fashola, also known as Naira Marley, has taken legal action against actress, Iyabo Ojo, alleging the dissemination of false and defamatory content on her Instagram account. In a letter sent to  Ojo, Naira Marley's lawyer, Olalekan Ojo, outlined the accusations made in a September 2023 post, stating that the actress accused Naira Marley of engaging in spiritual and physical dealings with the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, widely known as Mohbad The lawyer further asserted that  Ojo accused Naira Marley of causing mental harm to Mohbad, whom he referred to as a brother Naira Marley's attorney is seeking a redress of N500 million from Ojo and a public apology The  counsel asked that the apology  be posted on  Ojo's official Instagram account and published in a national daily According to Naira Marley’s lawyer, failure to adhere to the condition placed before her would force them to file a lawsuit against her The letter in part reads, “We...

Former Congo dictator Mobutu Seseseko’s mansion is now home to rats, bats, snakes and birds. Lesson to greedy rulers  This is the House of the former Zaire [now DRC] dictator, Field Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kukungbendu Wazabanga. The magnificent structure constructed on a large expanse of land [equivalent to a minimal game park] was built in his home village called Gbadolite at the cost £100m. It was considered the "epitome of decor and elegance" in Zaire and beyond. The super structure was decorated with Italian marble, Katangese high-karate gold plated doors and windows, Spanish floor tiles, automatic American air conditioning, Isreali state-of-the-art communication systems, king-size swimming pool, a private airport control tower, 3-4 inch bullet-proof glassware, 5 presidential suites, 6 Jacuzzis and surrounded by a mini game park full of all kinds of wildlife, including Indian tigers. The structure, which at the time of Mobutu's death was ranked one of the most magnif...

Nine Israeli soldiers have been killed in a series of ambushes and a double bombing in the single biggest loss of life for the country’s armed forces since the start of the ground invasion of Gaza. The soldiers were killed in what appeared to be a well-coordinated surprise attack in the Shujaiyah neighbourhood in the north of the Gaza Strip. The troops there were in an “advance stage” of sweeping up the area and dismantling Hamas capabilities, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The deaths late on Tuesday night included the most senior Israeli commander killed so far, and come as Israel faces intense international and domestic pressure to wind down its military campaign, which has killed some 15,000 people. Patience is running thin among key allies, such as the US, while families of hostages held in Gaza are also demanding a ceasefire. The death toll of Israeli soldiers passed 100 this week.