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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J An electrician, Ramon Suleiman, 33, was on Thursday granted N100,000 bail by an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged kidnap attempt. Suleiman was also ordered to produce two sureties in like sum. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Abiona Richard, directed that one of the sureties must be his blood relation with means of identification, while the other must be a civil servant on Grade level 9. She then adjourned the case until June 27 for hearing. Newsmen report that the Suleiman, residing on Iwo Road in Ibadan, allegedly attempted to kidnap a child from Aba-Ode Estate, Soka, Ibadan. The Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Salewa Hammed, told the court that Suleiman was caught loitering in the area in an attempt to kidnap the child on May 21 at about 5.00 p.m. Hammed said that the accused took to his heels when he was being questioned by the police. “He was later apprehended by landlords in the area and handed over to the police,’’ Hammed said. Hammed said the offence ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has bemoaned the four per cent reduction in the 2017 budget allocation to education sector. He made the observation on Thursday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy call on the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Mr Ayuba Wabba. He said such reduction was capable of destroying the nation’s educational system. According to him, the decline in funding education from 11 per cent to eight per cent in 2015 will do the education system no good. “About six per cent was proposed in 2017; about four per cent was given at the end of the day. “The decline will also destroy the country because destroying the educational system of a nation means destroying the nation,’’ he said. He said education had been relegated to the background because political office holders, now own private universities at the detriment of government universities. “They build their own universities, a...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Gov. Mohammed Bindow of Adamawa, on Thursday, said his administration was determined to provide special fund for training and retraining of staff of tertiary institutions in the state. Bindow made the disclosure at a two-day sensitisation workshop on “The Use of Quality Assurance Toolkit for Institutional Self-Assessment and Accreditation” in Hong Local Government Area of the state. The workshop was organised by the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE). The governor, who was represented by Hajiya Salamatu Bala, the Chairperson of the Governing Council of the Adamawa Collage of Education, Hong, said the training and retraining of staff would ensure quality graduates from the institutions. Bindow said that his declaration of emergency in the education sector was to enable quick intervention to salvage the sector from collapse. He attributed the decay in the sector to long time neglect on the part of previous governments. The governor restated h...

http://ift.tt/2qbmhkl Manchester City's Ivorian midfielder Yaya Toure leaves the pitch after being substituted during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and West Bromwich Albion at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on May 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Anthony Devlin /  Manchester City’s Ivory Coast football great Yaya Toure is to donate along with his agent £100,000 to the victims and their families of Monday’s suicide bombing at a pop concert in Manchester that killed 22 people and left more than 60 injured. The 34-year-old four-time African player of the year — capped 102 times and a member of the Ivory Coast side that ended a 23-year drought in lifting the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations — is organising through his agent Dimitri Seluk to ensure the money goes to those it is intended for. “We want to help the victims — the families of the dead or those who are now in hospital,” Seluk told the BBC. “I spoke to Yaya on Tuesday and...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Multiple suicide bomb attacks at the University of Maiduguri(UNIMAID), on Saturday, delayed the commencement of the Computer-Based Test for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,(UTME) candidates at centres in the university. Three suicide bombers,early today detonated their explosives, at the gate of the University killing a security guard and injuring one soldier. The six test centres in the university recorded low turn out following the incident. Mrs Kaka John, a JAMB staff, said that the exam did not commence on time because of the early morning bomb blast, which made many candidates to stay away. “We were supposed to start very early at 9:00 a.m. but I think because of the fear, the students did not show up. This made us to start around 10 a.m ” Also, the security agencies did not also show up on time because many of them had moved to the scene of the blasts. Also the NSCDC did not show up on time,”she said. Haliru Umar, The JAMB Supervisor, at...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The National Agency for Food And Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday said it would introduce more technologies to check drug counterfeiting in the country. Its Director of Special Duties, Alhaji Abubakar Jimoh, made this known in an interview in Abuja. Jimoh said the only way to defeat modern counterfeiters was to make use of technology as it was being done in other countries of the world. He added that NAFDAC had already concluded arrangements to experiment the use of some technologies like black gold, as well as the track and trace devices used in other countries to check activities of counterfeiters. He said “in the past, we used to take samples of drugs to laboratories, which usually took two to three weeks before the result could be out. “This usually raises concern or suspicion from drug dealers which sometime accuse NAFDAC of manipulating such results but now, results of tests from new technologies are known immediately.” Jimoh, who i...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency has secured its first publicised conviction in relation to the relief effort for victims of Boko Haram, as two men were jailed for stealing food aid. Umar Ibrahim and Bulama Ali Zangebe were jailed for two years and told to pay one million naira ($3,200, 2,900 euros) each for selling on 180 bags of rice meant for people displaced by the insurgency. The sale of the rice, part of a consignment of 300 bags donated by the Danish Refugee Council, netted the pair 1.4 million naira, the Borno state high court in Maiduguri was told on Thursday. Ibrahim, a councillor in the Mafa area, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Maiduguri, and local chief Zangebe were said to have acted on the orders of the local government chairman. The chairman, Shettima Lawan Maina, was named in the indictment but absent from court. He was detained in December last year on suspicion of links to Boko Haram. He is said to be still in military custody. Civil...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J David Moyes has revealed Sunderland owner Ellis Short wants him to remain in charge at the Stadium of Light despite his club’s relegation from the Premier League. Moyes criticised Short’s failure to back him in the transfer market in January and it was suggested Sunderland’s slide into the Championship would trigger the Scot’s dismissal. But Moyes, who is also unpopular with Sunderland supporters due to his cautious tactics, has spoken to American businessman Short and Sunderland chief executive Martin Bain and the Black Cats boss insists he has their full support. “Ellis and the board want me to stay,” Moyes said when asked if there had been a decision on his future on Friday. “I don’t know what you mean by ‘decision’. I’ve got a four-year contract so I don’t know what you’re talking about ‘a decision’.” While he has been backed by Short, former Manchester United boss Moyes hinted he wants to hear more about the club’s ambitions for next season before commit...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Ochuko Akuopha SUSPECTED herdsmen armed with AK47 guns have stormed a provision store at Umuachi-Ogo community, Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, brutalizing its owner and making away with the sum of N350, 000 and half bags of rice and beans. Vanguard gathered that the owner, one Mrs. Ifeoma Ugo, had closed for the day at about 9.30 pm on Wednesday and was about locking her store when the herdsmen, numbering four, accosted her and started shooting at random. A community source said the gunmen were dressed like herdsmen, adding that the gunshots caused panic in the community as residents scampered for safety. The post Herdsmen attack trader, cart away N350, 000, bags of rice, beans appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2pNJ2th