FG Directs Banks to Stop Retrenchment, Recall Workers Sacked in Last Four Months
Apparently embarrassed by the gale of retrenchments sweeping through the banking sector, the Federal Government has waded in to save the financial institutions from further collapse. It has directed all…
Mob kills woman, slits her throat for alleged blasphemy of Prophet Mohammed
Barely four days after a Muslim mob killed an Igbo trader, Mr. Methodus Chimaije Emmanuel, 24, in Pandogari, Rafi LGA of Niger State, for the allegation of posting a blasphemous…
President Buhari did not cancel trip to Ogoni – Presidency
The Presidency, on Thursday, refuted claims that President Muhammadu Buhari cancelled his trip to Ogoniland, Rivers State for the formal flag-off oil spill clean up exercise in the community. It…
Police shortlist 338,227 for 10,000 vacancies, over-age, irregularities disqualify 573,211
The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Thursday said it shortlisted 338,227 applicants out of the 911,438 that applied for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force. The Chairman of the Commission,…
FG scraps post-UME, JAMB pegs cut off point at 180
The Federal Government announced the scrapping of the examination applicants write (post-UME) when seeking admission into tertiary institutions in the country. The Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu, who announced…
AVM Oguntoyinbo docked for alleged N166m bribe, remanded in Kuje prison
In continuation of its relentless efforts in bringing corrupt public officers to justice, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 2, 2016 arraigned Air Vice Marshall Olutayo…
EFCC Arraigns Lawyer for N40m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Imo Efiong Akpan, a lawyer, before Justice Ifiok Ukana of the State High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State…
Security report from US , UK swayed Buhari from visiting Ogoni land
Warnings from the United States and Britain was responsible for President Mohammadu Buhari’s cancellation of his well-publicized trip to Ogoni land, Rivers State, State Department sources confirmed to Pointblanknews.com. Buhari’s…
Nigeria’s Barkindo is new OPEC Scribe, cartel fails to agree cut
A Nigerian, Mr. Mohammed Barkindo, who was the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, from 2009 to 2010, has been announced as the Secretary-General of the…
Oil spill: Gov. Emmanuel orders ExxonMobil to clean up Ibeno community
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, has ordered ExxonMobil to clean up the oil spill that occurred at Ndito Eka-Iba in Ibeno, Akwa Ibom on May 8. Ibeno Communities’s youth…