Lagos Police Command has arrested a 29 year old woman, Mrs Esther Akpan for stealing and eating pupil’s food at school.

It was reported that Mrs Esther Akpan who is a teacher at God’s Grace and Mercy Private school has been in the habit of stealing and eating the pupil’s meal for some time now leaving them starve.

Nemesis caught up with her after several reports from the parents of the kids to the Proprietor who teamed up with few others in making sure the culprit is caught red-handed. She was however caught on camera while eating the kids meal, as if that was not enough, she also came with 2 different plates with which she had turned their foods in.

The suspect confessed to the crime “ i take most of the food and snacks of the kids home while it eat some in the school.

I promise not to repeat such anymore, it’s the devil’s handiwork.

Speaking on the report, the Proprietor of the school, Mr Patrick Osakwe says” i’ve never owed any of my workers their salaries, infact on every monday, i give each teachers 1,000 naira which is not part of their salaries.

I pay them well and most of them goes home with the school bus, i see no reason why she should have indulged herself in such mess.

https://www.hitng.info/crime/female-teacher-arrested-for-stealing-and-eating-pupils-meals-at-school/

Liverpool's hopes of a Premier League 'Invincible' season came crashing to a halt at Watford on Saturday - and nobody was more pleased than Arsenal.

Watford stunned Jurgen Klopp's champions-elect with a 3-0 win at Vicarage Road which, while doing little to halt Liverpool's title charge, ensures Arsenal remain the only team to go a Premier League season unbeaten.

Soon after the full-time whistle was blown, Arsenal took to Twitter with one simple message.

"Whew..."

That sums it all up, really.

To be fair to Arsenal, the Gunners soon followed it up with another tweet congratulating Liverpool, which read: "Congratulations on a formidable unbeaten run, @LFC".

Interestingly, Watford replied Arsenal's tweets an hour later thus: "You're welcome" ���

Liverpool still remain on course to win the title by a landslide, but they will have to wait for next season to try and match that famous Gunners run.

One of Arsenal's 'Invincibles' squad, Lauren, took to Twitter to both celebrate the Gunners' continued status and also praise Liverpool.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-response-to-liverpool-losing-invincibles-tag-a4375071.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1583005997

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

PRESIDENT BUHARI APPROVES SUSPENSION OF THE COORDINATOR OF AMNESTY PROGRAMME

Following numerous allegations and petitions surrounding the Presidential Amnesty Programme, the National Security Adviser (NSA) set up a Caretaker Committee to look into the activities of the programme, on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Part of the Committee’s task is to ensure that allocated resources are properly utilized in consonance with government’s objective of alleviating problems in the Niger Delta region, and stamping out corruption in the Amnesty Programme.

Consequently, the NSA recommended to Mr President that the Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo be suspended, a recommendation that has been approved and which takes immediate effect.

The President has also directed that the Caretaker Committee set up to review the programme should oversee the running of the programme henceforth, with a view to ensuring that government objectives are achieved.

Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
February 28, 2020

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Oro Youths Vow to Blow-up Oil Pipelines if...

*give govt 14 days ultimatum to do needful

•say militancy not by birth but choice

By Joseph Atainyang

Youths of Oro Nation in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria have vowed to blow-up oil pipelines in their area to show the state government that they were core oil producing community.

In a six-hour protest in Oron main town yesterday, the youths under the aegis of Oro Youth Congress called out Akwa Ibom government "to immediately end the criminal exclusion of Oro from core oil producing community and oil bearing area of the state".

Speaking at Uya-Oro Junction, the central entry point of Oro Nation, the convener of Oro Youth Congress, Lovestic Esu, Esq pronounced "a 14-day ultimatum for both the state government and ExxonMobil to implement the resolution of the House of Representatives in recognizing the five local government areas of Oro Nation as oil bearing and oil producing."

"Where they fail to meet our demands, we have no option than shut down oil pipelines of companies operating on our soil. We can't be producing the wealth of the nation and we continue to live in poverty", he said.

Also speaking, a social crusader Omen Bassey, Esq and a youth activist, Mr Patrick Edeke stated that while Mobil and other oil companies have operated in Oro community for over 50 years, the Nation has been marginalized and made to suffer unmitigated environmental degradation.

The duo who lamented the level of poverty, hunger and joblessness among their people, even when "multiples of strangers were offered employment opportunities in the oil companies", insisted they "must immediately be gazetted as host community and oil producing community".

In their separate speeches, the President, Oro International Youths Forum, Christian Nyong, Esq, his predecessor, Dr Sunday Odokwo and the President, Amalgamated Voices of Oro Youths, Noble Francis Otioro, together with the President, Oron Union, Women Wing, Mrs Felicia Essang Oludare stated that Oro's peaceful nature must not be taken for granted as Militancy and Boko Haram were not by birth.

They opposed the "criminal torture and oppression of Oro people by the state government", saying it was time to change the story. "We've been peaceful for too long and our peace is too costly. All we need is our rights", they said.

Similarly, the President of Oro Youths Movement (OYOM), Comrade Victor Mkpofor pointed out that the protest was "a signal to all security agencies, including the Inspector General of Police, the Director of State Security Service, the National Security Adviser, among others, that Oro people were pushed to the wall and were ready to fight back".

Comrade Mkpofor maintained that having watched the state government take Oro land to build airport which they can't access by reason of road block, added that apart from the struggle of oil producing community, Oro will not sit back and watch the government build a seaport on their land and water, while the gate is built elsewhere.

It could be recalled that a resolution of the House of Representatives passed in 2012, sent to the federal executive council and further endorsed by the then Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, had mandated the Akwa Ibom State government and other agencies of government to recognize Oro Nation as oil bearing and producing community.

Recall also, that the House of Representatives had last week, through a duly endorsed letter, reiterated its call for the Akwa Ibom government to implement its 2012 directive of recognizing Oro as oil producing and causing oil companies within its shores to pay reparation to the Oro people.

Oro Nation, the largest federal constituency in Nigeria, is made up of five local government areas of Oron, Urue Offong/Oruko, Mbo, Udung Uko and Okobo.

China is attempting to swiftly build a 1,000-bed hospital dedicated to patients infected with a new virus that has killed 26 people, sickened hundreds and prompted unprecedented lockdowns of multiple cities during the country's most important holiday.

On the eve of the Lunar New Year, transportation was shut down Friday in at least 10 cities, with a total of about 33 million people. The cities are Wuhan, where the illness has been concentrated, and nine of its neighbors in central China's Hubei province.

"To address the insufficiency of existing medical resources," Wuhan authorities said in a Friday notice, the city is constructing a hospital modeled after the Xiaotangshan SARS hospital in Beijing. The facility will be a prefabricated structure on a 25,000-square-meter [270,000-square-foot] lot, slated for completion Feb. 3.

https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/china-building-hospital-treat-virus-expands-lockdowns

NIN IS SUSPENDED FOR 2020 REGISTRATION. CANDIDATES ARE TO ONLY SEND THEIR NAMES TO 55019 TO CREATE PROFILE. NO NEED FOR NIN FOR 2020 REGISTRATION.

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Fireworks in Oron, Akwa Ibom

Fireworks fall across the London skyline during New Year’s Eve celebrations. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Fireworks light up the sky over the London Eye in central London during the New Year celebrations. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA

The New Year is being celebrated on and around the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam. Photograph: Robin Utrecht/ANP/AFP via Getty Image

Hundreds of Kenyans gather on balconies as they watch a fireworks display during New Year’s Eve celebrations at the Two Rivers Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Photograph: Daniel Irungu/EPA

Fireworks illuminate the sky around Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, during 2020 celebrations in Dubai. Photograph: Ali Haider/EPA

A firework display in Red Square delighted Muscovites. Photograph: Denis Tyrin/AP

Russians began the world’s longest continuous New Year’s Eve with fireworks and a message from President Vladimir Putin urging them to work together in the coming year. Photograph: Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters

People take pictures in front of light decorations on Taksim Square. Photograph: Yasin Akgül/AFP via Getty Images

Fireworks explode over the Kremlin during New Year’s celebrations in Red Square. Photograph: Denis Tyrin/AP

The city of Istanbul is illuminated by an impressive pyrotechnic display to welcome in 2020. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Fireworks illuminate the night sky in front of Ortakoy Mosque and the Bosphorus bridge which links Europe and Asia. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Fireworks light the sky during celebrations in Frankfurt. Photograph: Andreas Arnold/AP

Berlin welcomed the year 2020 with its annual fireworks display and street party near the German capital’s most prominent symbol. Photograph: Adam Berry/EPA

Fireworks explode near Berlin’s TV tower. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images

Fireworks explode behind Berlin’s landmark Brandenburg Gate. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images

The Arc de Triomphe is illuminated as Paris welcomes in the New Year. Photograph: Kiran Ridley/Getty Images

People take pictures of the fireworks erupting in the sky on the Champs-Élysées. Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images

Paris prepares to welcome the New Year. Photograph: Kiran Ridley/Getty Images

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/dec/31/new-years-eve-2019-celebrations-around-the-world-as-they-happen

Fireworks illuminate the sky above the Arc de Triomphe. Photograph: Benoît Tessier/Reuters

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has announced important dates for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination exercise.

JAMB registrar Ishaq Oloyede made the announcement during the board's meeting with stakeholders ahead of the 2020 exercise in Zaria on Wednesday.

According to JAMB, the 2020 registration for both UTME and DE candidates will commence 13th January, 2020 and end on 17th February, 2020.

The board also announced that the 2020 UTME will be held between 14th March and 4th April, 2020

2020 ePIN Payment Process by Candidates

1. Each candidate must have obtained the NIN as earlier directed
JAMB;

2. The cell (mobile) number used for NIN enrollment can be used
by one candidate only. The cell phone number used for sending NIN
message is automatically tied to the candidate’s name supplied by NIMC and will be used in all communications related to his/her 2020 Application/Examination

3. Write the word ‘NIN’ then space and add your 11 digit NIN number and send to 55019 from your phone number used for NIN registration
- e.g [NIN 00123456789].
- There should be a space between the word ‘NIN’ and your 11 digit NIN

4. After sending a message to 55019, candidate will receive on his/her phone:
• 10 digit profile code
• registered name with NIMC
• NIN confirmation
• IBASS (Alert) for pre-registration checking

5. The candidate presents the profile code to the point of procurement of form (Banks, MMOs, MFBs, Switches, USSD Partners). The form ePIN is then sent as text message to the candidate

6. The candidate presents the ePIN at any JAMB accredited CBT centre for registration

REGISTRATION PROCESS
At CBT Centres
 Candidate is expected to pay NOT more than N700.00 as Service Charge to the CBT Centre
 Once profile code is entered, candidate’s read-only biodata appears on the form
- Names
- Date of birth
- Nationality
- L.G.A. (can be required to fill in if blank (vacant)
- State of origin
- Gender
- Picture (no more picture & biometric data capture)
 Candidate Provides:
(i) Choice of institutions & programmes (Disciplines)
(iii) Qualification with grades/dates, if not awaiting result
(iv) UTME subjects & choice of examination town for
(a) Mock examination (optional)
(b) Examination for UTME (actual examination)
 Review entries & confirm correctness
 Print Registration Slip only by BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION to confirm valid finger-print (UTME+DE)

https://www.jamb.gov.ng/home.aspx

Former Minority Leader of the Senate and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has pulled out of the planned Akwa Ibom North East senatorial re-run election.

In a letter addressed to the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole and dated 2nd of December, 2019, Akpabio said as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, a huge responsibility had been placed on him.

He said he couldn’t abandon a critical assignment placed on him by President Muhammadu Buhari in pursuit of a re-run election.

He urged the party to write the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in line with Sections 33 and 35 of the Electoral Act, 2010, and submit a replacement to run in his place.

President Buhari has taken to Facebook to celebrate his 30th wedding anniversary with Aisha

He posted thus:

Today, on our 30th Wedding Anniversary, I pray for Allah’s continued peace and blessings in our home and family. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari