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Two UI students win French Embassy’s creative challenge

13 May 2025

This is contained in a statement by the university’s Director of Public Communication, Mrs Joke Akinpelu. Akinpelu explained that the challenge was part of the French Embassy’s Plastic Free Campus Awareness Initiative. She disclosed that Prof. Aina Adeogun of the Department of Zoology served as the focal person for the UI-FEF Campus Wide Initiative. Akinpelu […]

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ASLER set to empower 600 farmers in Osun

12 May 2025

The event is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 14th May, 2025, at the Ejigbo Baptist High School playground. Part of the items to be distributed include 600 bags of NPK fertilizer, 400 knapsack sprayers, and 600 cartons of Agro-Chemical as a form of incentive to farmers in readiness for the 2025 farming season. According […]

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UTME candidate recruits blind agent to sit exam

10 May 2025

According to the Registrar of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, the blind impersonator is an undergraduate. While speaking at a press briefing on Friday, Oloyede noted that the board remained committed to supporting persons with disabilities aspiring to pursue tertiary education. The 2025 UTME results were officially released to the public […]

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JAMB releases 2025 UTME results, withholds 39,834 others

9 May 2025

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 […]

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Body of missing man found floating in Osun River

9 May 2025

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 […]

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American Robert Francis emerges new pope

8 May 2025

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 […]

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Tinubu bags chieftaincy title in Anambra

8 May 2025

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, […]

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VDM regains freedom after five days in detention

7 May 2025

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 […]

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Lagos council chairman, Kolade Alabi, slumps at APC meeting

7 May 2025

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 […]

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Africa Day: Nigeria hosts 35 nations in Abuja

7 May 2025

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 […]

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