archiveJuly 2023

Candidate ‘admits’ scoring 249 marks, group seeks arrest of ‘corrupt’ officials   The House of Representatives has urged Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stay any punitive action against Miss Joy Mmesoma Ejikeme, accused of falsifying her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) result. The plea followed the adoption of...

Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has issued fresh notice to the Federal Government to meet its demands within two weeks or risk industrial disharmony in the health sector. The association said this in a communique issued on Wednesday after its virtual Extraordinary National Executive Council Meeting (E-NEC). The communique...

  President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Wednesday, closed the defence of their February 25 election victory with the evidence of the Senate Majority Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, to deflate allegations and claims contained in the petitions file by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as...

A former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, has urged Mmesoma Ejikeme, a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, to come clean with the source of her result. Chidoka, who is also the owner of the Computer-Based Testing (CBT) Centre where Mmesoma sat for her examination, said he will beg...

  The African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) and the African Development Bank Group on 28 June signed an agreement for a $600,000 grant to expand the number of linked African exchanges from 7 to 15 under the second phase of the African Exchanges Linkage Project. The funds will come from...

The leader of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-political organization, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has made a shocking revelation regarding the victory of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Pa Adebanjo has insisted that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not defeat Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) during the conduct of the...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has notified the public of the illegal importation of foreign unauthorized sugar manufactured in Brazil and India. NAFDAC disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. According to the agency, the products are imported through Cameroun (Douala), Niger, Chad and...

Due to the current reforms and competition among exchanges in global financial markets, Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) on Thursday revealed that it was working assiduously with the Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) Plc and other stakeholders to reduce the settlement cycle from T+3 to T+1 over the next few years....

  Former Kaduna Central lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has made a fresh claim about events following the conduct of the 2023 general elections. In a post via his Twitter page on Wednesday evening, Senator Sani recalled that the 781 election offenders reportedly arrested nationwide by police operatives have all been released....

  Ose Daniel, Goodness bow out in grace   Quest, Victory Gbakara, and Precious Mac, the top three contestants who emerged in this week's show, performed memorably in the musical reality platform that would see the winner smiling home with mouthwatering prizes. The competition is getting tougher on the Bigi-sponsored...