Certificates

The West African Examinations Council says it will deploy an Electronic Certificate Management System to facilitate the issuance of certificates to candidates, to reduce the problem of abandoned certificates.

The management of Ebonyi State University (EBSU) on Thursday said it has sacked 63 lecturers for various offences including sexual harassment.

The Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiative (PCNI) has trained 20 journalists on conflict and humanitarian reporting in Borno, to fast track reconstruction and rehabilitation of the zone.

In spite of the clear provisions of the 1999 Constitution as amended that show that President Muhammadu Buhari is qualified to run for the nation’s presidency, the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said yesterday that it would challenge the president’s suitability in court.

The Presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress have hit back at the Peoples Democratic Party after the opposition party took President Muhammadu Buhari to task over his Secondary School certificate.

The Plateau Government has mobilised contractors handling various projects in the state to enable them resume work at their various sites soon.

Ex Niger Delta militants and graduands of Benson Idahosa University, Benin, on the Federal Government’s Amnesty Program on Friday protested alleged segregation, neglect and inhuman treatment meted on them by the amnesty office in Abuja.

Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, on Thursday, said he never claimed to have bagged a First Class degree in Law from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1978, contrary to claims by an online medium, Premium Times.

The controversy surrounding the Kaduna Central senatorial slot, ahead of 2019 general elections, Alhaji Uba Sani, has been issued with the certificate of return.

Abiodun Dabiri, an Architect, on Sunday, emerged as the governorship candidate of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party for the 2019 elections in Lagos.

The National Population Commission says registration for birth and death certificates are offered free by the commission.

A former President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, and frontline contender for the NFF Presidency, Aminu Maigari, may be disqualified by the 2018 NFF Electoral Committee over an alleged certificate forgery.

Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance (2015-2018), Kemi Adeosun threw in her letter of resignation on Friday, September 14, to bring to a temporary closure, the public outcry and the embarrassment that her possession of a fake National Youth Service Corps Exemption Certificate had generated since July when it was first reported.

“On-line certificates that are on-line all through are not accepted, except for on-line mixed with physical participation. If you go through the stress of acquiring it, you cannot use it in Nigeria yet,” he said.

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) said it was working towards deploying a more robust application to ensure registration of businesses within four to six hours even as it was working towards self-generation of certificates.

MTN Group’s plan to list its Nigerian unit in an initial public offering this year is under threat after the central bank ordered the South African telecoms giant to hand over $8.1 billion allegedly sent abroad illegally, sources said.

The Nigeria Television Authority (NTA)-Startimes network will be partnering with Nollywood for the broadcast of the Queen of Nollywood reality TV show.

An Osun state based social-political group, the Renewal Youth Movement (RYM), has called on the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke, to immediately withdraw from the 2018 Osun governorship race following his involvement in the ongoing certificate scandal.