The House of Representatives has called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to allow its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) results to be valid for at least three years and should conduct entry exams, at least, twice annually. This followed the adoption of a motion by Akintunde Rotimi at plenary on Wednesday. Moving…
…As screening of Service Chiefs at the Hallowed Chamber begins President Bola Tinubu has written the Senate, seeking for the approval of additional loan facility to the tune of $800 million to be secured from the World Bank for the National Social Safety Net programme. President Tinubu’s letter was read on Thursday during Plenary by…
“The end of AIDS” is still possible by 2030, the United Nations insisted Thursday, but cautioned that the world’s deadliest pandemic could only be halted if leaders grasped the opportunity. “AIDS can be ended by 2030,” the UNAIDS agency said as it outlined a roadmap of investment, evidence-based prevention and treatment and tackling the inequalities…
An Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, on Thursday, ordered the Department of State Services, DSS, to within seven days, release the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, from detention or charge him to court. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Hamza Muazu, held that…
A 17-year-old female student of the Osun State University, Ikire campus, Victory Ehiremen, and her boyfriend, Ayobami Ariyo, were on Wednesday paraded before journalists at the state police command headquarters, Osogbo, for allegedly obtaining N1.5m from a complainant they lured from Lagos to Osun State. Presenting the suspects alongside others arrested in various parts of…
The Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja has said that the amnesty program initiated by former Governor of Zamfara state, Bello Matawalle, is a failed project. The COAS who hosted the current Governor of the state, Dauda Lawal, in Abuja on Wednesday, said the amnesty program gave bandits the opportunity to regroup, reorganise and attack…
The Imo state police command have arrested a 22-year-old man identified as Obinna Ugochukwu, for allegedly stabbing his friend, Nwachukwu Stanley, to death. Parading the suspect before journalists, the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Okoye, said following a case of murder that was reported at the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (SCIID),…
There was a mild drama in a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Badagry, Lagos state on Wednesday, July 12, as a nominal complainant, James Bassey, broke down in tears to beg for leniency for a dry cleaner, Pius Savoir, who was sentenced to one month for stealing a pressing iron and N20,000. The Prosecution counsel, ASP…
The Debt Management Office (DMO) says Nigeria has redeemed a $500 million Eurobond on its due date, July 12, 2023. The Debt Management Office (DMO) in a statement on Wednesday night said this is part of a dual-tranche US$1 billion Eurobond for a tenor of ten (10) years at a coupon of 6.375% per annum….
President Bola Tinubu has expressed concern over the suffering experiences by the people of Nigeria due to fuel subsidy removal. He stated this while hosting the 1999 governors forum on Wednesday in Abuja. “I understand that our people are suffering yet there can be no childbirth without pain. The joy of childbirth is the relief…
