Mobil Producing Nigeria National Postgraduate Scholarship Awards 2010/2011
Mobil Producing Nigeria, operator of NNPC/MPN Joint Venture awards annual scholarships to qualified students in Nigerian Universities as part of it’s effort to support educational development and human capacity building.
Applications for NNPC/MPN National Postgraduate Scholarship Awards are based on the following criteria:EEPNL introduced the National Postgraduate Scholarship program in other to complement the existing foreign scholarship program. To apply for the scholarship, candidates must have a first degree (First Class or Second Class Upper Division in Geosciences and Engineering degree and a provisional admission in a recognized University in Nigeria.
19 awards were made in 2007 and by 2008, the number increased to 30 awards, thus bringing the total number of awards for the National Postgraduate scholarship to 49 awards.To apply for the mobil postgraduate scholarship program 2010/2011 visit NNPC/ESSO National Postgraduate Scholarship Awards and apply
University of Lagos,the university of first choice has released yet another supplementary list.This is the supplementary 3 list 2.Visit the unilag website on www.unilag.edu.ng to check or click the following link supplementary list 3 to take you to the admission list
A Mexico massacre in unfamiliar place: the capital
MEXICO CITY – Armed men rumbled into a gritty neighborhood of the Mexican capital Thursday and gunned down six men hanging around a convenience store, fueling fears that one of the world's largest cities is falling prey to the cartel-style violence that has long terrorized other parts of the country.
More than 50 people have been killed in the past week in five apparently unrelated massacres, including four shot Thursday near the border city of Ciudad Juarez. But the Mexico City shooting has raised alarm among residents about a drug war that has long seemed distant.
"Massacres have arrived" in Mexico City, El Universal newspaper declared. But Mexico City Attorney General Miguel Angel Mancera said he did not know if drug gangs were involved in the middle-of-the night shooting in Tepito, a working-class neighborhood just north of the colonial center.
Drug dealing is rampant in Tepito, but Mancera said there also have been problems with disputes among carjacking gangs.
Gunmen in a white SUV drove up just after midnight to a street of drab apartment buildings, corner grocery stores and auto repair shops, witnesses said. They jumped out of the car and gunned down six men in their 20s and 30s who had just gathered in front of a tiny convenience store. A seventh man was wounded.
People were still out on the streets when the shooting occurred. Drug dealing and robberies have been on the rise in the neighborhood but store owners still feel safe enough to keep their businesses open late. That in itself contrasts with border cities like Ciudad Juarez, where streets empty and many business close in the early afternoon for fear of drug-gang violence.
Several Tepito residents said they assumed the gunfire was fireworks for St. Judas Tadeo Day, commemorated with processions and street festivals across the city. As word spread, they slowly emerged from their apartments, shocked to find bodies face down in pools of blood.
"I've never seen anything so horrific happen. I go around at 2 or 3 in the morning and nothing has ever happened to me," said Guadalupe Ramirez, a 53-year-old grandmother walking past the site of the shooting. She said her 15-year-old grandchild had just returned from buying milk when the gunfire erupted.
The gunmen exchanged angry words with the young men before shooting, Mancera told the Televisa network. Bullet casings of two different calibers — 9 mm and .223 mm — were found at the scene, Mancera said, suggesting there were at least two gunmen.
Police were interviewing relatives and witnesses to determine the background of the victims and a possible motive. At least two of the victims had criminal records for robbery, Mancera later told reporters without elaborating.
"We would like to reassure the population that we are going to find those responsible," Mancera said.
Neighbors said they didn't know if the six young men belonged to a criminal gang but that they routinely hung around on the street, drinking beer and using drugs.
"I'm thinking of never coming back because every day things get worse," said Juan Fernandez, 60, who travels more than an hour to Tepito to get to the only job he's been able to find — as a clerk at the convenience store nearest to the shooting.
"You could come around at 11 or 12 at night and see how they come out, all these boys, drinking and smoking marijuana."
Carmen Vasquez, an unemployed 35-year-old, pulled her four children quickly past the shooting site on her way to a charity kitchen where she gets free meals every day.
"We walk with our children in fear. Because we never know where these criminals are going to come from," Vasquez said as her kids looked over their shoulders at candles that mourners had placed at the site. "I'm only coming here because I have to."
Trucks of Mexico City federal police circled the block periodically. By the afternoon the street was bustling again with people shopping and repairing cars, and giggling children playing pinball machines outside the convenience stores.
While crime is a major problem in Mexico City, cartel-style violence has been less common. Still, shootings between cartel gunmen and security forces have occasionally erupted during operations to arrest kingpins in the Mexico City area, one of the world's largest metropolises with an estimated 20 million people.
The epicenter of Mexico's long-running drug war is Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. More than 6,500 people have been killed in the city since a turf war erupted nearly three years ago between the Juarez and the Sinaloa cartels. Thousands more have died in many areas of Mexico as drug gangs have fought a government crackdown and each other.
Three women and a man were killed outside Ciudad Juarez and more than two dozen were wounded, many of them seriously, when armed men in several vehicles attacked buses carrying factory workers home early Thursday morning, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office.
There were no known suspects or motive in the attack on a highway in the Valle de Juarez region, where a string of small towns have been under siege from drug gangs trying to control trafficking routes. Mayors and police chiefs have been killed in the area, and even churches have been attacked.
On Wednesday, gunmen killed 15 people at a car wash in Tepic, a city in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit. Over the weekend, gunmen massacred 14 young people at a birthday party in Ciudad Juarez, and 13 recovering addicts were killed in an attack on a drug rehab center in Tijuana.
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, have shortlisted the duo of Stephen Keshi and Samson Siasia for the Super Eagles coaching job.
The NFF on Wednesday rose from its first executive board meeting and declared that the former Super Eagles stars will be considered for the job since they are the only coaches to have shown interest in taking over the reins of the Nigeria national team by submitting their CVs to the Glass House.
Keshi is Nigeria’s longest serving captain in history and the coach who qualified tiny Togo for its first ever World Cup appearance in Germany 2006, while Siasia’s reputation soared when he led the Nigerian U-20 and U-23 teams to win silver at the FIFA U-20 and U-23 World Cup and Beijing Olympics in 2005 and 2008 respectively.
A Technical Committee made up of former Super Eagles stars like Austin Okocha, Victor Nosa Ikpeba, and Garba Lawal amongst others will interview Keshi and Siasia on November 4, two days after its inauguration. The unveiling of the eventual Eagles gaffer is expected to be held on November 8.
The communique of the NFF board meeting was read by member, Deji Tinubu who is also a member of the Technical Committee that will interview the Tunisia and USA ‘94 Nations Cup and World Cup stars.
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday said workers would embark on a three-day warning strike from November 10-12.
The strike is in protest at the Federal Government’s delay in implementing the new national minimum wage, several months after the conclusion of negotiations.
It added that at the end of the period, labour would proceed on the strike.
The new minimum wage was contained in a supplementary bill passed by the National Assembly and signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The communique, which was signed by President and General Secretary of the NLC, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar and Mr. John Odah respectively, noted that the body’s NEC was surprised at government’s alleged connivance with the private sector to scuttle the payment of the minimum wage to workers.
According to the NLC, sister trade unions are being reached to support the new offensive.
