By JOHN ONAH, Abuja- Few days after registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and The Direct Entry (DE) closed, The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has granted a two weeks waiver for candidates who failed to complete their registration processes. The JAMB Head of Media and...
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Police in Ebonyi on Monday confirmed the death of a suspected hoodlum in Abakaliki. Police spokesperson, DSP Loveth Odah, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the hoodlum was killed in gun battle with the police. She explained that hoodlums were intimidating and forcing people to comply with...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed relief materials to victims displaced by sea incursion in the riverine community of Aiyetoro, in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State. The Director-General of NEMA, retired AVM Muhammadu Muhammed, who sympathised with the victims, on Monday in Igbokoda, said the...
…As Guinea Bissau visits NCC on benchmarking tour Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has shared his experiences on some of the regulatory models, approaches and best practices being implemented by the Commission in promoting a stable telecoms sector and accelerating digital...
The Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, says the military has achieved commendable successes in its counter-insurgency operations due to he renewed and enhanced inter-agency collaboration between services and security agencies. Yahaya made this at the opening of an Inter-agency Seminar, organised by the Army War College Nigeria...
Elsie Ozika, Executive Director of Toilet Kulture Initiative (TKI), has urged the three tiers of government to distribute free sanitary pads to schoolgirls to promote attendance and menstrual health and hygiene. Ozika made the call at an event to create awareness and distribute sanitary products to schoolgirls of LEA...
The Northern Governors Forum has condemned the killing of Mr Ahmed Gulak, the former Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, describing it as unfortunate . The chairman of the forum and governor of Plateau, Mr. Simon Lalong, in a statement by his Director of Press and...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intercepted assorted drugs worth over N90 billion and arrested 2, 175 drug traffickers in four months, the Chairman, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, has said. Brig.-Gen. Marwa disclosed this on Monday in Abuja during a ceremony to present the best performing commands for...
A total of 18,639 individuals has been nabbed for alleged illegal border crossing since December 2020, making up to 248 per cent yearly, China’s National Immigration Administration said on Monday. Since the Ministry of Public Security launched a special campaign in 2020, authorities have investigated 6,732 criminal cases involving...
Gunmen have abducted a lecturer from the staff quarters of the Taraba State University in Jalingo, the state capital. The lecturer, identified as Umar Buba and Head of the Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management (Faculty of Agriculture), was kidnapped in the early hours of Sunday, said Professor Vincent...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed shock over the death of his former political adviser, Ahmed Gulak, who was killed in Owerri, the Imo State capital. In a statement on Monday by his Special Adviser on Media, Ikechukwu Eze, he described his former aide as a loyal public servant...
At least 39 people were killed in two new attacks in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where hundreds have died in massacres since the start of the year, monitors said on Monday. “At least 20 civilians were killed overnight in the village of Boga and at least 19...
Angry youths armed with weapons have staged a violent protest along the Gusau – Kaura Namoda Highway in Zamfara State. Eyewitnesses told Channels Television that the protesters occupied the road very early on Monday over the incessant attacks by bandits in their communities. One of the commuters who was...
Zinedine Zidane has revealed that he left La Liga giants Real Madrid as the “club no longer has the faith in me I need”. Zidane called time on his second coaching spell with Real Madrid after Los Blancos were dethroned by city rivals Atletico Madrid in La Liga this...
China is relaxing its family policy and allowing couples to have up to three children in future. The Politburo of the Communist Party decided at a meeting in Beijing on Monday that such “optimization of birth policies’’ would help improve the population structure, in the country. The official Xinhua...
Social and economic activities were grounded in Awka, Anambra State capital, on Monday following the sit-at-home order (on May 31) given by the proscribed Biafra agitators, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The group said it declared a sit-at-home order in rememberance of more than five million Igbo people...
The West African regional bloc ECOWAS has suspended Mali’s membership after coup leader Assimi Goita proclaimed himself president of the crisis-wracked country. The Economic Community of West African States announced the decision late Sunday following an emergency summit of regional leaders in Ghana. The leaders condemned the coup and...
With the House of Representatives recent invitation to the general public, executive and judicial bodies, traditional institutions, political parties, civil society organizations, professional bodies and all other stakeholders, to public hearing on the ongoing amendments to the Nigeria 1999 Constitution, the process has graduated from mere rhetoric to reality....
Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu has called for a synergy among the Federal Government, Kebbi Government and relevant other agencies to mitigate the recurrence of boat mishaps in the state. Malam Yahaya Sarki, Special Adviser to Gov. Atiku Bagudu on Media, made this known in a statement made available...