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The Nigerian Federal Civil Service has listed over 90 Jobs including the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR as having vacancies for recruitment or employments.federal-civil-service To apply for a vacancy in any of the jobs, applicants must go through the Federal Civil Service Recruitment Portal. Below is the breakdown of affected ministries that require applicants.

Former  Flying Eagles coach  Tunde Disu and ex-Super Eagles defender  Bright Omokaro have commended the Nigeria Football Federation for giving  Salisu Yusuf a contract. Yusuf, who is Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr’s assistant, had been working without a contract.

Idris Adesina Enyimba striker, Mfon Udoh, has promised to score more goals next season after   finishing as top scorer in the 2016 CAF Champions League and at the same time being shortlisted for the African Player of the Year (based in Africa) award.

Festus Abu Former Athletics Federation of Nigeria President Toni Urhobo has expressed his disappointment with the country’s declining fortunes in athletics, saying  the government should make haste to save the situation. The former national coach is upset   that Nigeria again  failed to win a single medal in  athletics  at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after they  returned home empty-handed from the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Idris Adesina Defending champions of the men’s category of the FIBA Africa Zone Three Club Basketball Championships, Kano Pillars, will seek to maintain their 100 per cent win record against Togo’s NIGELEC on Thursday in Lome, Togo.

The International Olympic Committee on Thursday stripped three Kazakh weightlifters of gold medals won at the London 2012 Games for doping. Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova were all caught in new testing of hundreds of samples from the London and 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Ramon Oladimeji A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed December 7, 2016 to hear the N200m fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Skye Bank Plc to challenge the freezing of four bank accounts containing $15m.

Simon Utebor, Yenagoa The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, has asked militants operating in the Niger Delta area to embrace peace and allow President Muhammadu Buhari to implement his developmental projects in the region. The IYC also expressed delight at the recent letter the President sent to the National Assembly seeking increased funding for the Presidential amnesty programme.

Peter Dada, Akure The Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Hilda Harrison, has said that  24,000 officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force will provide security during the November 26, 2016 governorship election in the state. Harrison said this during the signing of a peace accord with political parties at the Officers’ Mess Akure, the state capital on Wednesday.

Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja The Nigerian Army is holding two officers – a major and a captain – in connection with alleged sabotage of the ongoing counter-terrorism operations in the North-East. A military source said on Wednesday that the Army authorities were intensifying efforts to rid the service of saboteurs in the ongoing counter-terrorism operations.

Olusola Fabiyi and Oyetunji Abioye Economic and financial experts have warned President Muhammadu Buhari to exercise caution over his administration’s plan to borrow $29.96bn from external sources. Similarly, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party called on Nigerians to stop Buhari from borrowing the amount and moving N180bn appropriated for special intervention to fund critical recurrent and capital items.

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, has lamented the obsolete, dilapidated and grossly inadequate facilities at the orientation camps across the country. Kazaure said this on Tuesday in Calabar during the 2016 ‘Batch B’ pre-orientation workshop organised for stakeholders to interact and fashion out ways for a successful orientation programme.

Enyimba Feeders were held 1-1 by FRSC of Abuja in a thrilling encounter while Papilo FC beat Bida Lions 2-1 in the opening games of the Bet9ja Nigeria Nationwide League One Super 8 on Tuesday at the Agege Stadium, Lagos. The Road Marshalls took a shock early lead, the impressive Olayinka Yusuf curling in a free-kick in the 5th minute but Paschal Eze grabbed the equaliser for Enyimba after the break.

Manchester United and Manchester City resume hostilities in the League Cup later on Wednesday with rival managers Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola starting to feel the heat. Mourinho is reeling from United’s 4-0 humiliation by his former club Chelsea, while City manager Guardiola has gone five games without victory for only the second time in his stellar coaching career.

Barcelona centre-back Jeremy Mathieu joined the club’s mounting injury list and faces three weeks out after hurting his right calf, the Spanish champions said on Wednesday.

Super Falcons head coach, Florence Omagbemi has assured Nigerians that the Falcons will retain the Africa Women Cup of Nations billed for next month. The 10th AWCON finals hold 19th November – 3rd December in Cameroon. Nigeria will play Ghana, Kenya and Mali in Group B.

Daniel Sturridge scored twice as Liverpool knocked out Tottenham from the EFL Cup with a 2-1 win at Anfield on Tuesday . Both teams made changes — 21 in total — with Spurs captain Eric Dier the only man to have played for either side at the weekend. Youth was the order of the day, with Trent Alexander-Arnold making his Reds debut, but it was the experienced Sturridge who pounced to tuck home the opener in the ninth minute.

The Ondo gubernatorial election is set for a tense but interesting scenario as forces clearly loyal to President Buhari and All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman, John Odigie- Oyegun, confront ‘home boy’ Governor Olusegun Mimiko and his godson, Eyitayo Jegede.

Gazidis believes Arsenal can challenge for more signings like Ozil and Sanchez Getty Arsenal can begin to compete with their big-spending rivals when it comes to player wages, says Ivan Gazidis , as the club look to extend the contracts of Mesut Ozil , Alexis Sanchez and Hector Bellerin .

There was just one moment of disruption at Arsenal ’s Annual General Meeting on Monday, one quick flicker when the frustrations of fans threatened to drive the morning off its well-marked path. Sir Chips Keswick, Arsenal chairman, was proposing the fourth formal resolution of the morning, to re-elect majority shareholder Stan Kroenke as a director.

Manchester United’s start to life under Jose Mourinho has not been the fairy tale story that many had hoped for, and reports suggest that his ‘hands-off’ approach to training has left the players surprised and stunned with his methods, having expected much more from the so-called ‘Special One’.

Arsene Wenger is targeting 86 points to win the Premier League title this season. With Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City all tied on 20 after just nine games, Wenger believes it will be a high points total that wins the league next May. Last season Leicester City won the title with 81 points, although they would have won it with 72, so big was their margin over Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur. This year, though, City, Arsenal and Liverpool have started strongly, with Chelsea and Spurs just behind.

Arsenal can begin to compete with their big-spending rivals when it comes to player wages, says Ivan Gazidis , as the club look to extend the contracts of Mesut Ozil , Alexis Sanchez and Hector Bellerin . Ozil and Sanchez are out of contract in 2018 and they have been in negotiations with the club since September about signing improved deals. The Gunners struggled to compete with the wages on offer at the likes of Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea in the years after their move from Highbury to the Emirates Stadium.

Antonio Conte has continued to defend himself against Jose Mourinho’s  private allegation that the Chelsea manager deliberately attempted to humiliate him with his passionate celebrations during last weekend’s drubbing of Manchester United . Conte attempted to increase the Chelsea celebrations among the stands late in the 4-0 victory at Stamford Bridge, given that the United supporters were making more noise inside the stadium despite the scoreline.

Three-and-a-half years is a long time in football, but it can also pass in the blink of an eye, depending on how well you believe those three-and-a-half years to have been spent. If you take September 1, 2008, as a starting point and move forward three-and-a-half years, you land in March 2012, with Manchester City having progressed from being perennial mid-table also-rans into a club on the verge of winning its first league championship since 1968.

"We have to think about it. Normally the young players have to be involved when the team is in a good moment, but we haven't won for five games. To put four, five young players in at this moment is not a good idea. We have to protect them. "But we will see. We might not have options, and I will have to put them in."

Kevin De Bruyne has been ruled out of Manchester City's EFL Cup fourth-round derby away to Manchester United on Wednesday night with a leg injury. Manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed the Belgium forward has picked up a knock as the City boss prepares to rotate his squad for the clash at Old Trafford, which is live on Sky Sports 1 HD .

For the country to get out of recession, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for an increase in the volume of trade internally and externally and the establishment of a commodity exchange to ensure stability in the prices of agricultural produce. Obasanjo made the suggestion in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Monday during the opening of the 8th National Council on Industry, Trade and Investment currently holding in the state capital.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed. A top source in the anti-graft agency told our correspondent on Monday that the former FCT minister was arrested around 10.39am on Monday and taken into custody for interrogation by a team of operatives, who were awaiting his arrival.

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja State governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress on Monday expressed their displeasure on how they were being sidelined in the choice of those being given federal appointments in their states by President Muhammadu Buhari. The governors protested to Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at a meeting they had at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The legendary former Manchester United manager was honoured with the Walther Bensemann prize on Friday night, given to recipients for their outstanding work in football Sir Alex Ferguson has been honoured in Germany as he received the Walther Bensemann prize.

Folashade Adebayo The Nigeria Union of Teachers on Thursday urged the Federal Government not to renege on its promises of scholarships, rehabilitation and employment to the recovered 21 Chibok Girls. Speaking in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Thursday, the NUT President, Mr. Michael Alogba-Olukoya, advised against abandoning the girls, adding that it would hinder the process of reintegrating them into the society.

Being an excerpt from the book, Floreat Collegium: 100 Years of King’s College, Lagos If 1920 was a major milestone in the history of sports at the college, the next five decades were the years of expansion in the number of games introduced, competitions organised, equipment acquired and infrastructure provided to enhance sporting activities. The years between 1920 and 1970 can be described as the golden era of sports in King’s College. Pupils broke records in the school and the country, and the college joined other pioneer institutions in establishing the Amateur Athletic Association of Nigeria in 1944. There were inter house-house competitions in all four major sports – athletics, cricket, football and hockey – but the inter-house athletic competition was one of the biggest events in the college’s sporting calendar.

This country is a summary of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Yemen, located on the southern rim of the region, is where Saudi Arabia and Iran contend for regional supremacy. It’s become the battleground of nations that have a point to prove. Report has it that some 7,000 people have been killed since 2015. A few days ago, over 140 mourners attending a funeral were killed in air strikes. Saudi Arabia said its fighters killed these Yemenis by mistake. It’s one of the several fallout of the Riyadh-Teheran power play. Apart from Iraq and Syria, Yemen is the other hot spot in the Middle East where intense battles are going on. Riyadh and Teheran are involved in all. Although these two are unavoidably part of this narrative, they aren’t meant to be the focus.

There is a lingering problem over the way and manner local governments have been created arbitrarily in this country. The problem became worse under the military. Some call it military nepotism and as it is now, with the 1999 Constitution very difficult to amend, it seems we have to live and endure with the problem for a long time.

Nigeria continued their impressive rise in football after climbing to 60th in the latest FIFA Rankings, which were released by the world football body on Thursday. Three-time African champions  moved up four spots in the rankings from 64 to 60, while their 2018 World Cup qualifying opponents Algeria and  Cameroon retained their previous spots. The other team in their group, Zambia, failed to progress in  the rankings. The Super Eagles are also ranked 11th in Africa, after their 1-0 victory at home against Tanzania in September in an inconsequential Gabon 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier was followed by a 2-1 victory over Zambia in their opening Russia 2018 World Cup qualifiers in Ndola on October 9.

Arsenal winger Alex Iwobi says he’s confident the Gunners can beat Paris Saint-Germain at home and finish top of their Champions League group. Arsenal top Group A on goal difference ahead of PSG at the halfway stage after a 6-0 drubbing of Ludogorets on Wednesday at the Emirates. They will have a chance to build on that lead when they visit the Bulgarian side in the next round before hosting the French champions on November 23. And after a 1-1 draw in Paris in their first match, Iwobi thinks Arsenal are in prime position to win the group.

The Mobile Police  Officer in charge of the convoy of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, DSP Idowu Oyewole, has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers in Akure, the state capital. TOBILOBA learnt that 45-year-old Idowu, a father of three, died between Wednesday and Thursday after a three-man armed gang invaded the Sango area along Akure-Owo Road, where the policeman lived. Our correspondents gathered that the robbers had attacked neighbouring houses at about 8pm on Wednesday and Idowu had gone out with his service pistol to dislodge the robbers.

A bricklayer, Adeleke Oyadara, has been tortured to death in Kujore, Iwelepe, in the Sagamu area of Ogun State, after he was accused of robbery. TOBILOBA learnt that a businesswoman, identified only as Bolanle, had claimed that she was robbed by the deceased on September 10. Bolanle, around 8pm of the next day, was alleged to have gone to Adeleke’s house with some hoodlums. They were said to have descended on the 50-year-old and beaten him to a pulp before putting him in a truck they brought. Our correspondent learnt that on the way, the group was intercepted by some vigilance group members, who took the case to the Sagamu Police Division.

57' Andrew Robertson from Hull City delivers a cross 57' Hull City take a throw-in in the opponent's half of the field 56' William Keane from Hull City trips Jack Wilshere 56' Tom Huddlestone from Hull City passes the ball in the box, but it's intercepted by an opponent player. 56' Andrew Robertson from Hull City delivers a cross 55' The home team have had 60% of possession compared to the away team's 40% 55' AFC Bournemouth take a throw-in in the opponent's half of the field 55' Shaun Maloney is leaving the field to be replaced by Tom Huddlestone in a tactical substitution. 54' A shot by Jack Wilshere is blocked 54' Artur Boruc relieves the pressure with a clearance 53' Robert Snodgrass from Hull City delivers a cross 53' Harry Maguire from Hull City commits a foul on Artur Boruc but the referee waves play on. 53

90+5' The referee blows the final whistle 90+5' The home team have had 42% of possession compared to the away team's 58% 90+4' Victor Diaz from Leganes trips Vitolo 90+3' Leganes take a throw-in in the opponent's half of the field 90+2' Sevilla take a throw-in in the opponent's half of the field 90+2' The home team have had 42% of possession compared to the away team's 58% 90+1' Goal kick for Sevilla 90+1' David Timor Copovi misses the goal with a shot from outside the box 90+1' Vitolo fouls an opponent 90+1' Diego Rico fouls an opponent 90+1' The fourth official shows there are 4 minute(s) of time to be added 90' A shot by David Timor Copovi is blocked 89' Victor Diaz is penalised for pushing Vitolo 88' Sevilla take a throw-in in the opponent's half of the field 87' The home