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The federal government has approved a reduction in the cost of forms for final year secondary school and post-secondary school examinations. This reduction, first announced by President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide on new media, Bashir Ahmad, was decided at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo presided over the meeting in the absence of Mr Buhari who travelled on official assignment to Borno State. The cost of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) forms was reduced from N5,000 to N3,500 while the cost of National Examination Council (NECO) forms was reduced from N11,350 to N9,850. The cost of Basic Education Certificate, also handled by NECO, was also reduced from N5,500 to N4,000. The reduction takes effect from January 2019. JAMB has been making hundreds of millions of naira profit since its new leadership headed by Ishaq Oloyede assumed office; leading many Nigerians to demand a reduction in the cost of forms.

Nigeria 0 South Africa 0 (4-3 on penalties): Super Falcons Win Record Ninth Awcon Title Socceruncle | Dec. 02, 2018 Banyana Banyana’s dream of winning their first continental title faded into thin air as Thomas Dennerby’s side again won via a penalty shootout Tochukwu Oluehi was the heroine as Nigeria claimed the African Women Cup of Nations for a record ninth time after defeating South Africa 4-3 on penalties following a tightly contested 120-minute draw in Accra, Ghana. The Super Falcons goalkeeper was impressive throughout the encounter, before saving the decisive penalty to help her team beat Banyana Banyana. Onome Ebi had missed Nigeria's first penalty of the shootout before Oluehi provided a stunning save to deny Linda Motlhalo, thus, securing victory for Nigeria. Thomas Dennerby made a single change to his team, bringing on teenager Rasheedat Ajibade in place of Desire Oparanozie while Thembi Kgatlana continued to lead the line for Desiree Ellis’ side. Nige

AAUA Student Union Election Accreditation Procedure 1. Visit www.election.aaua.edu.ng to register/accredit for AAUA 2017/2018 student union elections. 2. Login with your E-PORTAL Details to verify your studentship. 3. Then click PROCEED. Vote Wisely! NOTE: Accreditation Starts 23th October, 2018 and Ends 30th October, 2018. Only accredited students will be allow to vote.

Lagos APC primaries: Why Ambode is not a good party man – Tinubu Oct. 02, 2018 A National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday declared that Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode was not a good party man. Tinubu said though Ambode has done well in office but the party decided against supporting the governor’s second term because he was not a good party man. He made the disclosure while addressing journalists at Ward C, Ikeja Local Government Area, after the conclusion of voting in the Lagos APC governorship primary. When questioned on his support for Ambode, Tinubu said, “Who did I support in 2014? Ambode. Life is dynamic. It’s those who made me the leader of the structure in Lagos who said it was what they want. It’s only if you have followers that you’re a leader in democracy. “If I look back and I don’t find them again; if I don’t respond to them, if I fail to accede to their request, I would have failed the leadership test.

Global News NG | Oct. 02, 2018 The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, said on Tuesday that though Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has done well in office, he has not been a good party man.  For this reason, Tinubu said, the party has decided to withdraw support for the governor who wished to go for a second term. He stressed that the decision to abandon Ambode for Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu was beyond him, adding that he was only doing the wishes of the party, which had entrusted him with its leadership. Tinubu spoke with journalists at Ward C, Ikeja Local Government Area, after the conclusion of voting in the Lagos APC governorship primary. Asked why he withdrew his support for Ambode, Tinubu said, “Who did I support in 2014? Ambode. Life is dynamic. It’s those who made me the leader of the structure in Lagos who said it was what they want. It’s only if you have followers that you’re a leader in democracy. “If I look back and

Osun Election: 'We will resist attempt to steal PDP's victory' -Atiku Global News NG | Sept. 23, 2018 Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission not to tamper with the will of the people on who becomes their governor after the tenure of the incumbent, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola. He said he was sure that the people of the state are behind the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ademola Adeleke, adding that the opposition party would win the election on Thursday. Atiku,  who is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the PDP, stated this in Abuja on Sunday while commenting on the governorship election held in Osun State on Saturday.  He also said that the PDP would resist any attempt by the All Progressives Congress to steal the alleged expected victory of its candidate, Adeleke, on Thursday. He said, “The people of Osun State have freely given their mandate to Senator Ademola Ad

Ambode: Tinubu rejects all pleas from Lagos Governor’s wife in Osogbo Pulse News | Sept. 19, 2018 All the pleas from Mrs. Ambode on her husband’s behalf, didn’t move APC godfather Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Pulse had exclusively reported that Ambode had moved his entourage and his wife, First Lady Bolanle Patience Ambode, to Osogbo where the APC was holding a mega rally for the governorship aspirant in Osun, Gboyega Oyetola. The campaign which was attended by President Muhammadu Buhari and all the APC governors, took place on Tuesday, September 18, 2018. Their mission was to plead with Tinubu--who is now backing former Commissioner Babajide Sanwoolu ahead of the APC governorship primary slated for September 29 —into having a change of heart. According to a report in Punch, that agenda didn’t quite pan out as planned for the Ambodes. Tinubu has fallen out with Ambode for a slew of reasons. Waylaying Tinubu Punch writes that Mrs. Ambode “waylaid the National Leader of

'There Is No Earthquake In Lagos'-Oshiomhole Speaks On The Fight Between Ambode And Tinubu Global News NG | Sept. 21, 2018 Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the APC, reacting to claims of disagreement between Ambode and Tinubu, APC leader at a meeting with the party’s governors stated that the embattled Governor of Lagos State, was free to contest for the party’s governorship ticket in the state. According to Oshiomhole, “Now, the attempt to say an embattled governor…there is no APC governor that is embattled and because we are democratic, the best way to measure democracy is the presence of more than one person showing interest in an office. “That does not make any other person embattled. But, of course, the media can create this impression that there is an earthquake in Lagos; there is no earthquake. “At every level, I have seen people claiming that in one or two offices there was no opposition. In every other office, we have more than one candidate expres

Trump describes meeting with Buhari as' so lifeless', says report Global News | Aug. 27, 2018 US president, Donald Trump, called his Nigeria counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, lifeless after their April meeting,  claimed global business newspaper, Financial Times in a recent publication. Buhari and Trump met at the White House on April 30. Both leaders discussed issues bordering on fighting terrorism and economic growth. However, as Trump is set to welcome President  Uhuru Kenyatta  of Kenya, Financial Times in an article titled  Africa looks for something new out of Trump claimed that the US leader described his April meeting with Buhari as ‘so lifeless’. The paper added that Trump warned his aides that he never wanted to meet someone so lifeless again. “The first meeting, with Nigeria’s ailing 75-year-old Muhammadu Buhari in April, ended with the US president telling aides he never wanted to meet someone so lifeless again, according to three people familiar with t

Another trekker begins a trek from Lagos to Abuja to stop Buhari’s re-election Global News NG | Aug. 23, Isa Mohammed Munlaila has commenced the trek from Lagos to Abuja to show how displeased he is with the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Spotting a black T-shirt with a box inscribed with the words 'RIP APC’ perched on his head, Munlaila told journalists in Lagos that his trek is against the re-election bid of President Buhari. Munlaila said the Buhari administration has brought untold suffering and hardship to the masses. He also took on the administration for not fulfilling its 2015 election campaign promises. Munlaila joins a long list of Nigerians who have taken to trekking for political reasons. In April 2015, 33-year-old Hashimu Suleiman did the 752-kilometer trek from Lagos to Abuja to celebrate Buhari’s election victory. In May of 2015, 43-year-old Abubakar Duduwale hit the road from Yola to Abuja to witness the inauguration of Buhari as presid

Another trekker begins a trek from Lagos to Abuja to stop Buhari’s re-election Global News NG | Aug. 23, Isa Mohammed Munlaila has commenced the trek from Lagos to Abuja to show how displeased he is with the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Spotting a black T-shirt with a box inscribed with the words 'RIP APC’ perched on his head, Munlaila told journalists in Lagos that his trek is against the re-election bid of President Buhari. Munlaila said the Buhari administration has brought untold suffering and hardship to the masses. He also took on the administration for not fulfilling its 2015 election campaign promises. Munlaila joins a long list of Nigerians who have taken to trekking for political reasons. In April 2015, 33-year-old Hashimu Suleiman did the 752-kilometer trek from Lagos to Abuja to celebrate Buhari’s election victory. In May of 2015, 43-year-old Abubakar Duduwale hit the road from Yola to Abuja to witness the inauguration of Buhari as presid

Ayefele: Akande urges Ajimobi to bring compassion into governance Published  22 Aug 2018 Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan A governorship aspirant in Oyo State, Prof Adeolu Akande, on Wednesday,  called on the state Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, to allow compassion to guide his decision when dealing with matters that directly involved the people he governed. Akande called on the governor to remember the promise he made to cater for the security and welfare of the people of the state when he was elected. He said, “The primary responsibility of any government is to protect lives and property. The sacredness of private property is second in importance only to that of the preservation of life. “The furore generated by the demolition of the property of Mr Yinka Ayefele must have demonstrated to the government by now that it was an unpopular decision. Government is about the people and not the anger and emotions of the people in government. The Yoruba capture this truism when they say,

 *Sowore Wants to 🗣Debate 👔Buhari, Other 👔Presidential Aspirants📹 Presidential aspirant of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has expressed the desire to debate President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and other presidential aspirants. Sowore said this on Wednesday during an interview, Politics Today. He said presidential aspirants should be bold enough to participate in debates about policies and projects they will execute if they become president. He added that young and new presidential aspirants should also be given the audience and the opportunity to challenge older aspirants through debate. “If want you to be more serious, you should be bringing these presidential candidates to debate us. Buhari should be brought out. The media should force them out of their hiding. Let them come and debate the future of Nigeria,” he said. He argued that contrary to claims, young people have come up with alternatives to the current leade

108   1'   Stop shedding blood for electoral victory, Ooni tells politicians Published August 22, 2018 Femi Makinde, Osogbo The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has advised politicians in the country against violence and blood shedding as preparations for the 2019 general election begin to gather momentum. According to a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Wednesday, Oba Ogunwusi gave this advice at his palace on Tuesday. Oba Ogunwusi who is Co-Chairman of National Council Of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria spoke while receiving hundreds Muslims led by the Chief Imam of Ifeland, Alhaji Abdul Samiu Hammed, who had on their way from the praying ground visited the palace to pray for the monarch. The monarch, who later joined Muslims to pray at the praying ground to celebrate the Eid-El-Kabir also advised politicians in Osun State against violence as political parties are preparing for the September 22 governorsh

*PDP will win Presidential election next year, boasts Saraki Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday boasted that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party will win the 2019 presidential elections. Saraki said this in Ilorin at a meeting with PDP members who came from the 16 local government areas of the state. He also expressed his confidence that his new party would emerge victorious in all the local government areas of Kwara State. Saraki said that the victory of PDP at both federal and state levels would be beneficial to all the members in the state. The Senate President said that the future of PDP was now brighter than it used to be. “If we emerge victorious at the federal level, all of us will be the beneficiaries. In the state, with your support we will win the state for PDP. “All of you here are the key players in Kwara politics. With unity of purpose, no party can contest with you." He assured PDP members that there would be no anointed candidates in all the el

”Your Resort To Blackmail Cannot Sway Nigerians” – PDP Tells APC By  Akinwale     /  In a statement released by the National publicity secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it has told the All Progressives Congress (APC) that its resort to blackmail, twisting of facts and fabrications cannot sway Nigerians from the truth of their culpability in the impasse at the National Assembly. PDP in its statement said Nigerians are already aware of how the APC has been frustrating the National Assembly by creating hitches, illegal impeachment processes, physical blockage of the National Assembly access and besieging of the official residence of Senate President and his deputy, Senators Bukola Saraki Ike Ekweremadu respectively. Read below: “Nigerians know those who set security agents after the National Assembly members, set parliamentarians against one another and have been chasing lawmakers around the country with tons of money as bribe, just to

”Dates For 2019 Elections Will Not Be Shifted” – INEC Chairman Says By  Akinwale      The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, says the date for the 2019 general elections will not be shifted. The INEC boss disclosed this on Friday in an interview with journalists at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. “There are no conditions under which elections will be postponed under section 26 of the Electoral Act. The date is firm and fixed, February 16, 2019. We issued the timetable well in advance. For the very first time in the history of our elections, citizens of Nigeria know when elections will take place, one year in advance” Yakubu said.

Adopt and practise these seven rules if you want your money to be properly managed. You can manage your money like a pro, just follow these rules.  (Blackmen in America) Managing your money properly does not require a university degree in personal finance,  neither does it require you to have a textbook knowledge of what management is about. All it takes you to manage your money to achieve your financial goals and attain financial independence is just for you to follow certain rules of money management. These seven golden rules can help you manage your money well if you practise them. 1. Pay yourself   Paying yourself first is the first golden rule you need to manage your money well. Apart from paying bills and taking care of other necessary expenses, you've got t start rewarding yourself too. Put yourself on your payroll, and give yourself some financial reward for working for your future by paying yourself. 2. Grow your income Ways to gr