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  • Recruitment: Navy releases lists of successful candidates

    Recruitment: Navy releases lists of successful candidates

    Nigerian Navy released on Thursday night two lists of successful candidates in 2019 recruitment interview held in Lagos between July 29 and Aug. 27.

    The Navy Director of Information, Commodore Suleman Dahun advised candidates to check their names at the website www.joinnigeriannavy.com.

    Training for the successful candidates will hold at the Nigerian Navy Basic Training School Onne, Port Harcourt, Rivers State

    The Successful candidates were grouped into two, with the first batch beginning their training on 18 October. The second batch will start on 8 May 2020.

    According to the information on the website, candidates are to come along with the following items:Two navy blue PT shorts, Two white round neck vests, one pair of white canvas, one pair of brown canvas, two pairs of black trousers, Two white long sleeve shirts, two black ties.

    Other requirements for the recruits are: One pair of black shoes, three pairs of white long socks, One pair of national dress, Original and photocopies of credentials, BVN print out, One set of cutlery.

    Candidates should note this warning: Any candidate who fails to report 4 days after the indicated dates will not be accepted for training.

    You can check for your names here:

    Batch A: List of Successful candidates:BATCH-A

    Batch B: List of Successful candidates:BATCH-B

  • 52 candidates set to participate in Bayelsa gov election – INEC

    52 candidates set to participate in Bayelsa gov election – INEC

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 52 political parties and its candidates are ready to participate in the Bayelsa governorship election on Nov. 16.

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the form to that effect was displayed at INEC office in Yenagoa on Friday.

    The political parties are Accord, ANRP, ADP, APP and DPP, APGA, BNPP, CAP, PDP, APC, FJPN, Fresh Democractic Party and GPN, among others.

    Some of the candidates are Mr David Lyon, APC, Sen. Douye Diri, PDP, Azibataram Cameron, ANRP, Mrs Helen Okorodas, ACD.

    Mr Wilfred Ifogah, INEC Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity, told NAN that a total of 52 parties were able to provide condidates for the election.

    According to Ifogah, the candidates include, 46 males, 6 females.

    “Well, there are other parties but only these 52 parties met the qualifications and are able to provide candidates,” he explained.

  • Police recruitment: Successful candidates begin medical screening Sept. 9

    Police recruitment: Successful candidates begin medical screening Sept. 9

    The Kaduna State Police Command, says successful candidates for recruitment into the Nigerian Police Force will undergo medical screening between Sept. 9 and 14, at all zonal Police headquarters.

    The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo, disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday, in Kaduna.

    “The command wishes to inform the general public, particularly successful candidates, who passed the recent Police recruitment aptitude test that, there is going to be Medical Screening Exercise nationwide.

    “It is scheduled to take place between Sept. 9 and 14 at all Police zonal headquarters simultaneously.

    “Kaduna State indigenes who were successful, should be in Abuja for their medical screening at Zone 7 Headquarters.’’

    Sabo said the candidates were to appear at the screening centres in white round neck T-shirt, white shorts and white Canvass.

    He said they were also to report at the venues at 7:00 a.m., with original print-out of their Guarantor’s Form, Acknowledgement Letters and two white background recent passport sized photographs.

    “Candidates who are yet to see their Names can equally check on the Nigeria Police recruitment portal (www.recruitment.npf.gov.ng) as released by Department of Training and Development, Force Headquarters, Abuja.

    “Members of the general public who are not part of the exercise are hereby advised to stay clear of the screening venue as stringent measures have been put in place to deal with such people,’’ he said.

    According to Sabo, the Commissioner of Police in Kaduna, Ali Janga, enjoins the good people of the state to go about their lawful businesses as the Command is doing everything possible to ensure safety of lives and property of citizens.

  • Recruitment: Navy releases list of successful candidates

    Recruitment: Navy releases list of successful candidates

    The Nigerian Navy says it has released the list of successful candidates for its 2019 recruitment aptitude test.
    Navy Spokesman, Commodore Suleman Dahun, who announced this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, urged the candidates to visit its official site: www.joinnigeriannavy.com.
    He said successful candidates were to report for selection interview at the Nigerian Navy Secondary School Ojo, Navy Town, Lagos from July 29 to Aug.27.
    Dahun said the interview included screening and verification of credentials, medical, physical and written tests.
    Besides, the spokesman said candidates should come with two pairs of navy blue shorts and two white T-shirts, a pair of canvas and stockings.
    He urged the candidates to also come with bedsheets, pillow cases, set of cutlery, and four recent 30 x 30 passport photographs on white background.

    “They should also come with the originals and photocopies of their credentials as well as originals and photocopies of valid Driver’s Licence (Category H only).
    “Any candidate who fails to report for screening on the stipulated date for his or her Batch will forfeit his or her candidature,” he said.

  • JUST IN: JAMB withdraws 2019 UTME results of four candidates [Names Attached]

    JUST IN: JAMB withdraws 2019 UTME results of four candidates [Names Attached]

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results of four candidates.

    The candidates include: Adah Eche with Registration Number 97512230IB, Taiwo Abisola Omowumi with Registration Number 97049254GG, Vincent Onyinyechi Prisca with Registration Number 96531098BC and Sofodun Afolasade Zainab with Registration Number 96634599GA.

    JAMB’s Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.

    He said the four candidates were found by the board to have been involved in an attempt to fake JAMB result.

    “The Board therefore withdraws and invalidates the results of the four candidates found to have been involved in the illicit attempt to fake JAMB result.

    “No effort would be spared in identifying and sanctioning any candidate who attempts to falsify results of JAMB-organised examinations (UTME and others) and whoever collaborates or patronizes such candidates would also face similar consequence,” the statement said.

    Eche was apprehended on Monday by the board for being in possession of a fake UTME result.

    He had attempted to upgrade his original UTME score of 153 to 290 with the help of a professional examination fraudster.

    According to JAMB, apart from being in possession of a fake UTME result, he was also working with the above name candidates to have their scores inflated as well.

    Meanwhile, the board said it has released the results of 3, 736 who have been cleared of any infraction.

    According to Benjamin, the candidates whose results have been released are those who were invited and appeared at eight centres listed by the board.

    He said that after an interaction with the board’s Intelligence Committee to ascertain their culpability or otherwise in some discovered examination infraction, their results were released.

    “Consequently, 3,736 candidates who were found to be either free of any blame or entitled to the benefit of the doubt, have their results processed for release. The 3, 736 results are now released,” the statement added.

  • Why Buhari will not interfere with emergence of next NASS leadership – Presidency

    Why Buhari will not interfere with emergence of next NASS leadership – Presidency

    The Presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will not interfere with the process of electing the next crop of leadership of the incoming National Assembly.

    Rather, the President will stick to the rule of law and the operative principle of separation of powers in the affairs of the National Assembly.

    The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Affairs (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, who stated this at a media briefing in Abuja Friday, said the President will give both arms of the federal legislature a free hand to elect their leaders.

    Enang’s position contradicts claims by some returning senators that President Buhari will have a hand in the choice of the principal officers in the Ninth Senate.

    The presidential aide maintained that Buhari will play neutral and allow the elected lawmakers to sort out their leadership tussle and allow the best candidates to emerge.

    Enang said, “The principle of President Muhammadu Buhari is that each arm of government should function according to what the constitution says which, is that every person in government should do the right thing.

    “He (Buhari) will not go beyond what the constitution allows him and every arm of government should stick to its constitutional responsibilities”.

    Enang appealed to the present crop of lawmakers to give priority to some pending bills, among which are the 2019 Appropriation Bill, the New Minimum Wage Bill, the Medium Terms Expenditure Framework and the budget of the various government agencies.

    “The budget of the 64 different federal government owned agencies are still pending before the national parliament.

    “Unless the budgets of the different agencies are considered and passed, we still have a lot to lose in terms of opportunities for employment in those ministries and some capital projects which would have increased government spending or the spending of the various agencies and parastatals.

    “The executive is ready with all the system to come in and defend the budget. We have in advance, worked with the committee on appropriation to determine a time table for the defence of their budgets.

    “We have informed all the ministers, heads of departments, agencies and the ministries to be on the alert so that immediately the bill is committed to the committee on appropriation, we will upon invitation, appear before them,” he said.

  • JUST IN: Two PDP senators; Olujimi, Faseyi lose reelection bid to APC candidates

    Two Peoples Democratic Party senators in Ekiti State – Biodun Olujimi (North) and Duro Faseyi (South) have lost their reelection bid to the All Progressives Congress candidates.

    The Returning Officer for Ekiti South Senatorial District, Prof Laide Lawal, returned APC candidate, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye, elected having scored 77,621 votes to defeat his closest rival, Olujimi, of the PDP, who polled 53,741 votes.

    The Returning Officer for Ekiti North Senatorial District, Prof Abayomi Sunday Fasina, also declared the APC candidate, Senator Olubunmi Adetumbi, the winner having polled 60,689 votes to defeat Faseyi, who got 49,209 votes.

    PDP candidate and House of Representatives member representing Ekiti South 2 Federal Constituency, Segun Adekola, having secured 25,707 votes, lost reelection bid to the APC candidate, former Chief of Staff to Governor Kayode Fayemi, Mr Yemi Adaramodu, who scored 41,864 votes.

    Also, for Ekiti North 2 Constituency, APC candidate, Olanrewaju Ibrahim, won the election, having scored 29,388 votes as against the 23,684 votes scored by PDP candidate, Olusola Omotoso.

  • Appeal Court clears Zamfara APC candidates for 2019 elections

    The Court of Appeal in Abuja has set aside a decision of the Federal High Court which affirmed the exclusion of the All Progressives Congress candidates in Zamfara State from the forthcoming general elections.

    The lower court presided by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu had on January 25 ruled that INEC was right to have excluded the APC from the elections.

    The court said the primaries that produced the candidates was flawed.

    But in a ruling on Thursday, a three-member panel led by Justice Abdul Aboki described the lower court ruling as an “aberration”.

    The appeal agreed with lawyers representing the APC who argued that the motion brought before the lower court was filed outside of the allowed time.

    According to the judges, the application ought to have been brought 14 days from the date when the alleged electoral infraction occurred.

    The Appeal Court ruled that the filing of the matter, after 14 days at the lower court, made it impossible for the lower court to have jurisdiction on the matter.

    “The suit is hereby struck out for lack of want of jurisdiction on the part of the lower court. The judgement of the lower court is hereby set aside,” the court ruled late Thursday.

    Details later….

     

  • Enlist our candidates in rescheduled elections, Rivers APC tells INEC

    Enlist our candidates in rescheduled elections, Rivers APC tells INEC

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to include its governorship, federal and state assemblies candidates in the rescheduled general elections.

    The state’s APC, in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary Chris Finebone, on Wednesday, in Port Harcourt, cited various decisions of higher courts to justify its demand.

    The party claimed that there was no Supreme Court judgement anywhere authorising INEC to delist APC candidates in Rivers State.

    The APC insisted that the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu’s statement on the commission’s commitment to obey Supreme Court judgement “is premised on error.”

    “We are advising the INEC leadership not to constitute themselves as enemies of democracy by obeying a non-existent Supreme Court judgment.’

    “Hence the chairman of INEC must be well guided by credible evidence and not mere media misrepresentations and misinterpretations which are mischievously aimed at destroying an entire political future of a state.

    APC said that it had in a letter addressed to Yakubu dated Feb. 19, through its lawyers, Messrs Tuduru Ede and Co, argued that it duly submitted the list of its candidates for Rivers State for the 2019 General Elections in line with the timetable and schedule of activities released by the commission.

    It urged INEC to recall that the names and particulars of the state’s APC candidates were duly published by the commission as required by law.

    “’Hence we are aware that pursuant to the judgment in Suit No. FHC/PH/CS/ 149/2018 between the Peoples Democratic Party V. All Progressives Congress (APC) & Anor, the names of APC candidates for Rivers State were removed from the final list of candidates published by the commission.

    “However, the APC, aggrieved by the said decision of the Federal High Court on which the decisions of the Commission to remove the list was anchored, appealed to the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division in appeal No. CA/PH/38/2019.”

    It explained that the Court of Appeal in a considered ruling delivered on Feb. 6, stayed the execution of the said judgment of the Federal High Court.

  • Kajuru Killings: Kaduna Governorship candidates’ Forum sues for peace

    Kajuru Killings: Kaduna Governorship candidates’ Forum sues for peace

    The Kaduna State Governorship Candidates Forum has called on the people of the state to live in peace and avoid any act that would cause disharmony among them.

    The call is contained in a statement signed by the Forum chairman, Dr Awwal Aliyu, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Kaduna, over the recent killings in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state.

    It said: “On the recent Kajuru killings, we are calling on the good people of Kaduna to be their brothers’ keepers, live in peace, love and harmony for the overall development of the state.”

    The forum also urged security agencies to unravel the cause of the conflict and those involved for necessary action.

    It appreciated the quick response of the state governor, Nasiru El-Rufa’i and security operatives in meeting with the residents to ensure they maintain the peace.

    The forum also reacted to the postponement of the general elections by INEC.

    “We are deeply disappointed that despite the long preparations both locally and internationally, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed the Presidential and National Assembly elections hours to its commencement.

    “Many Nigerians have travelled to various locations to exercise their right, and international observers were gathered.

    “INEC themselves have given assurances, day after day and almost hour after hour that they are in complete readiness for the elections.”

    The forum further urged INEC to ensure that materials already distributed are safe and do not get into wrong hands.

    It also said the commission should do everything possible “to avoid the lapses that resulted in this unfortunate postponement, and ensure a free, fair elections on the rescheduled dates.”