archiveNovember 15, 2019

    The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says the results of 9,457 candidates who sat for the Second Series of its West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for (private candidates) are to be investigated before they would be released. The council’s Head of National Office, Mr Olu Adenipekun,...

Two persons were confirmed dead and six others injured in a fire accident involving a petroleum tanker at Bible College Bus-stop along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on Thursday night. Ganiyu Akeem, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Assistant Corps Commander in Ota, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that 17 vehicles...

  says Buhari does not need certificate to be president The Supreme Court has explained that it dismissed the case of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because they were not able to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...

  Students of the Lagos State University (LASU) will start paying a sum of N150,000 tuition fee for a second stream undergraduate programme. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, said the second stream degree programme was introduced to help deepen the entrepreneurship skills of students of the institution. News Agency of...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with family of former Minister of Information, Chief Alex Akinyele, who passed away on Thursday night. The President’s condolence message is conveyed through a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Friday. President Buhari also commiserated...

  The National Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has clarified that no judgement barred the All Progressives Congress (APC) from partaking in the Saturday governorship election. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, insisted that the judgement of the Federal High Court...

Officials said separate incidents of lightning killed at least 27 people and injured over two dozens of others in different areas of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province during the last 24 hours, local media reported Friday morning. Saeed Ghani, the provincial government spoke man said that local authorities declared an emergency...

None of the about 20 Senior Advocates of Nigeria paraded by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is present at the Supreme Court where the reasons for the dismissal of their appeal challenging the outcome of the February 23 presidential election is set to be...

Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola Thursday in Oshogbo presented N119.5 billion 2020 budget before the state House of Assembly for consideration. Critical sectors like infrastructure, education, health, water and sanitation and agriculture top the list of sectoral allocations in that order in the fiscal estimate. The 2020 budget, tagged “Budget...

Nigeria, the Republic of Benin and Niger, have established a joint border patrol team comprising the police, customs, and immigration to recommend a date for the reopening of the borders. The three countries agreed in a resolution on Thursday in Abuja at the end of the Tripartite Anti-Smuggling Committee Meeting...