archiveJune 29, 2021

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has defended itself over the allegation that the mass failure experienced in the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination was caused (UTME) by the use of the wrong syllabus. Some candidates who wrote the UTME examination alleged that they were given old syllabus of...

  The Jagunmolu of Ikaleland and Ojagbulegun from the source, Gen Olu Bajowa (rtd.) has paid a special visit to the palace of Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Eniitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II. Bajowa, who arrived the threshold of the milestone age of 80 in December last year...

The Senate has passed the sum of N329,963,491,523 billion as Statutory budget for the Federal Capital Territory for the year 2021. The passage came after the upper chamber considered the report of the Committee on Federal Capital Territory on the FCT Appropriation Bill, 2021. Chairman of the Committee, Senator Abubakar...

The Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday ordered that the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, be remanded at a Department of State Service (DSS) facility, pending the determination of his trial. Justice Binta Nyako gave the order after counsel for the Attorney General of...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said the official price of a litre of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, will... The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said the official price of a litre of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, will remain N162...

 The Nigeria Center For Disease Control(NCDC), registered 65 additional COVID-19 infections in the country, as of June 28, 2021.The NCDC disclosed this on its website handle on Tuesday morning. The News Agency Of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country has also seen a sharp increase from its previous record of...

 The Minister of State, Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said that Nigeria has the highest number of Out-of-School Children in sub-Saharan Africa.Nwajiuba stated this during the inauguration of “Better Education Service Delivery For All (BESDA)”, in Katsina on Monday. He announced that Nigeria has an estimated 10,193,918 children out school. According...

The Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for the National Identification Number -Subscriber Identity Module (NIN-SIM) data verification untill July, 26, 2021. This is contained in a statement signed by Dr IKechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),in Abuja. The statement co-signed by Mr Kayode...