archiveJune 2019

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that it has not yet published the national and general minimum cut-off marks for placement of candidates into the nation’s tertiary institutions as being speculated in some quarters. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an...

The United Kingdom (UK) has seized the latest discovery of £211million (N82billion) looted by the late head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha. The UK government said that it would not release the laundered fund until Nigeria and the US reached a distribution arrangement The money was laundered through a Jersey...

Gianni Infantino, president of world football's governing body, FIFA has been re-elected for a second term in Paris on Wednesday. Former UEFA secretary general Infantino was behind the expansion of the World Cup from 32 teams to 48 for the 2026 tournament, which will be held in the United States,...

  Capital market operators on Wednesday called for urgent intervention of the Federal Government in the conflict between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Oando Plc. They made the call in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos They reacted to the outcome of a forensic...

  Israel’s first lady, Nechama Rivlin, 73, died on Tuesday morning after battling with a respiratory disease for years, the Presidential Residence announced. She died at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. Three months ago, Rivlin underwent a lung transplant. Rivlin suffered from pulmonary fibrosis and required the constant use of...

Vice-President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is to inaugurate a cooking gas manufacturing plant in Lagos on June 7. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the plant is the biggest of its type in West Africa. The Chief Executive Officer of Techno Oil Group, Mrs Nkechi Obi, told reporters in...

The global reach of the United Nations makes it “the world's best hope for peace and security, sustainable development and the promotion and protection of human rights and social progress”, said the top Nigerian diplomat who will be the next President of the General Assembly. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigeria’s current UN...

“We may be different in our faiths, different in our ethnicities, but we are one people, the Nigerian people are one and united.” – VP Osinbajo REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE EID-FITR HOMAGE TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU...

  United States’ tennis star, Serena Williams, has made history as the first athlete to make Forbes’ list of the World’s Richest Self-Made Women. According to the publication, the 23-time Grand Slam champion made the list as a result of her estimated fortune of $224 million (£177m). The majority of...

  The Chairman, Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), Mr Bank-Anthony Okoroafor, has urged the Federal Government to find lasting solution to the insecurity in the country to attract more investments. Okoroafor gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, on Tuesday. According...