Jonathan cancels Immigration recruitment offers Automatic jobs for injured, victims’ relations

President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered total cancellation of Saturday’s messy recruitment exercise of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS). The president also gave automatic employment to injured applicants and 3 relations of each of the applicants who lost their lives. The Information Minister Labaran Maku who disclosed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting  Wednesday said the council devoted the meeting to express grief over the death of applicants who lost their lives to stampedes during the exercise. Maku said the council regretted the incident and expressed condolences to the families of the victims and sympathised with the injured. According to him, the president announced automatic employment for three relations of…

FRSC official, 2 others paraded for kidnapping in Imo

An official of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and two others were  on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 paraded by the Imo State Police Command as suspected kidnappers. The State Commissioner of Police, Abdul Ali, who addressed newsmen on the matter at the command’s headquarters in Owerri, said that the suspect and his gang had abducted one Cyril Echesi at Uli in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State. According to the police boss, the gang allegedly led by one Cyprian, were taking their victim to Ahoada in Rivers State when they were apprehended by the command’s Scorpion Squad following a tip off. Also paraded by the police were members of a notorious gang of…