archiveJune 2019

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of the results of 15,490 candidates withheld in the just concluded 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Spokesman of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin in a statement on Monday in Abuja said the Board had during the release of...

  Says no candidate has more than one UTME result The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that a national cutoff mark for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would be determined on Tuesday June 11,, 2019. The much awaited cutoff mark would be decided at the...

    Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, the 2019 Presidential Candidate of Young People’s Party (YPP), has identified poverty as the major cause of social vices in the country. He made the remark while presenting a paper at a one-day programme organised by a Kano-based NGO, Ra’ayi Initiative for Human Development (RIHD)...

  A team of Medical Experts from the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano (AKTH) have said that one out of five individuals are vulnerable to mental illness. The Team led by Dr Muktar Gadanya of Department of Community Medicine, and Dr Auwal Salihu of Department of Psychiatry, stated this during...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE)  All-Share Index and Market Capitalization depreciated by 2.05 per cent  and 2.06 per cent to close the week at 30,432.13 and N13.402 trillion respectively last week. Similarly, all other indices depreciated with the exception of the NSE Premium Index, NSE-AFR Bank Value Index and...

  The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal will resume sitting on Monday on the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Already, hearing notices to this effect have been issued to all parties to the petition. The delay in...

  A retired Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, on Sunday said that Nigeria was yet civilised and mature for states to operate their own police systems. Tsav stated this in a statement he personally signed and made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi. He said that...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has debunked all insinuation that it lacked due and statutory processes in the investigation of Oando Plc. The Commission emphasized that it abided by the fundamental principle of fair hearing in the entire phases of the investigation. According to a statement duly signed by...

The Centre for Change Initiative, a civil society organisation, on Sunday commended the performance of the outgoing 8th  National Assembly, saying it exceeded the  performances of the previous  National Assembly sessions. The president of the organisation, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos...

  The Debt Management Office says the impact of the proposed limitation of commercial banks’ access to government securities on the market will depend on the actual mechanism provided by the CBN. Mr Oladele Afolabi, the Director, Portfolio Management Department, Debt Management Office (DMO), said this in an interview with...