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2 months ago | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | John Onah |Tony Onyima |Western Delta |Arthur Jarvis
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja –A day after the suspension of 8 universities, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the suspension of admissions into the Law Faculty of Fountain University, Osogbo for the 2025/26 academic session also for the same reason of .violation of regulatory procedures.
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2 months ago | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | John Onah |Sola Odumosu
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja –The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has announced the suspension of admission into the law programme of 8 universities over violation of regulatory procedures. The Board’s Public Communications Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, announced the suspension in a statement on Wednesday.
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2 months ago | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | John Onah
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja –The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has said that the country’s electoral process has experienced noticeable improvement in elections conducted after the 2023 General Elections. Prof. Yakubu stated this when the new European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, His Excellency Gautier Mignot, led a delegation to the Commission’s Headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday. IProf.
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2 months ago | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | John Onah
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja –In his recent statement following the renewal of trade negotiations with Germany, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described a political reset not as a reversal of the existing order but as a shift towards improvement in the interest of the people. A political reset, in essence, is an audacious reordering of systems, infusing fresh ideas, vigour, and transformative tendencies.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | John Onah
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja –Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on Wednesday announced February 21, 2026 as the tentative date for the conduct of the chairmanship and councillorship elections into the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory. Speaking at the first meeting of the commission with leaders of the registered political parties, Prof.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | John Onah
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja –The National Universities Commission (NUC) has called on the general public to disregard Doctor of Medical Laboratory Science (DMLS) programme in any university in the country, saying it is not approved. The commission, which disclosed this in a statement signed by its Acting Director of Public Affairs, Mrs.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | John Onah
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja –Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has urged the management of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) to complement efforts by his administration to combat insecurity, improve agriculture and food security, fast track land reforms and support development in other critical sectors using existing space technology and innovative capabilities of the agency.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | John Onah |Abiodun Komolafe |Chidi Amuta
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja –Two major labour unions at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the National Association of Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), have thrown their full weight behind the proposed increase in allocation for staff feeding in the 2025 budget, saying the move is key to improve the level of productivity in the Board.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | John Onah |Chidi Amuta
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja –The 2023 Nigerian general election was a significant milestone in the country’s democratic journey. While it’s debatable whether it was the “best organized” election, several improvements were made to the electoral process. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) introduced new technologies, such as the Bi-modal Voting Accreditation System (BVAS) and the INEC Results Viewing Portal, to enhance the integrity and transparency of the elections ¹.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
nationalaccordnewspaper.com | John Onah
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja–Kogi state government is to spend over N7 billion to revamp additional 88 Primary Healthcare Centres across the 21 local government areas in the stateGovernor Ahmed Usman Ododo disclosed this at a ceremony held at the Model Primary Healthcare Centre in Felele, Lokoja to officially hand over sites of the 88 additional Primary Healthcare Centres to contractors by the state government for revitalization across the state.
