The board disclosed that it is withholding the results of 39,834 candidates over issues relating to examination irregularities. Recall that over 1.9 million applicants participated in the just-concluded exercise. JAMB also disclosed that 80 suspects across the country are currently under interrogation for examination fraud, with Anambra State leading the pack with 14 suspects. JAMB […]
A man’s body, reportedly ‘missing’, has been found floating in a river in Ibokun community of the Obokun local government area in Osun State. The deceased, identified as Kehinde Ijebu, was a resident who disappeared without a trace on Tuesday, as reported by community members. Family and locals present at the scene confirmed the body […]
Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the new Catholic Pope. Prevost, who is the first American pope, will be known as Pope Leo XIV. The new Pope has now replaced the late Pope Francis who died last month at the age of 88. Pope Leo, in a short address after his presentation, blessed the crowd […]
Tinubu was bestowed the title by the Chairman of the Anambra State Traditional Rulers Council, Igwe Chidubem Iweka (Ogalagidi, Eze Iweka III), at the Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka . The President was in Anambra on a one-day working visit to commission some “legacy” projects that the state governor, Chukwuma Soludo’s administration completed. Igwe Iweka, […]
Popular social media activist, Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has been released from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. A former African Action Congress, AAC, presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, confirmed the activists’ release via his X handle. Recall that there has been uproar across the nation with youths demanding his immediate […]
…reaffirms its stance on political alliances
The Chairman of Bariga Local Government Area of Lagos State, Kolade Alabi, on Wednesday, suddenly slumped at the All Progressives Congress stakeholders’ meeting held at the party’s Secretariat in Ikeja, the state capital. Alabi, who is the state chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, was addressing party members when the sad incident […]
The Coordinator and Director of Parliament, Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Joint Sessions, Africa Union Simulation, Young Piero, made this disclosure at a news conference in Abuja. Piero said the discussions at the 61st edition of the day would focus on continental unity, borderless Africa, intra-African trade, cultural exchange, and the AU’s Vision 2030 initiative for […]
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, made this known during plenary. Akpabio stressed the need for a committee like that of the House of Representatives to oversee the functions of the Sole Administrator and the Rivers State Government under emergency rule. He named the committee’s chairman as the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, and the […]