Today is Easter Sunday. At Easter, Christians all over the world proclaim and celebrate their faith that Jesus of Nazareth, the One who was humiliated, tortured, crucified, and buried, rose from the dead after three days in the tomb. Easter this year is being celebrated in Nigeria after a long period of insecurity in which […]
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JAMB Centre The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a new date for the commencement of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). It disclosed this in a statement signed by its Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin in Abuja on Sunday. Benjamin said the UTME which was earlier scheduled […]
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Photo by Ludovic Marin / Pool / AFP French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview published Sunday that Europe must not be a “follower” of either the US or China on Taiwan, saying that the bloc risks entanglement in “crises that aren’t ours”. “The worst thing would be to think that we Europeans must […]
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The National Association of University Students (NAUS), has canvassed strict and judicious use of the N320.3bn Tertiary Intervention Fund (TETFund) approved for tertiary institutions in the country. It recalls that the executive secretary of the Tertiary Intervention Fund (TETFund), Arch. Sonny Echono, recently at the annual strategic planning workshop with heads of beneficiary institutions, announced […]
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Ile-Epo Market axis of the road Lagos State Government appears to have forgotten some sections of the mainland part of the state in the area of infrastructure. While Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was busy campaigning for his reelection since last year, motorists and other road users on the Agege-Abeokuta expressway – from Ile-Epo Market, Oke-Odo, to […]
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• 55 APC Senators-elect may lose seats to minorities Barely 60 days to the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, there is no solution in sight to the current imbroglio that has hit the caucus of the 55 All Progressives Congress (APC) Senators-elect in the parliament. Some key APC leaders within and outside the National […]
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A pro-democracy group, under the auspices of “Coalition for a Better Nigeria, has vowed to remain in Nigeria’s Unity Fountain in Abuja until the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is sworn in on May 29, 2023. Leaders of the group during a protest, on Friday, condemned those calling for […]
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Travelers at Oshodi bus terminal in Lagos…yesterday; Photo: Ayodele Adeniran Religious, political, and labour leaders, yesterday, urged Nigerians to work towards conquering ethnic and religious profiling, selfishness, avarice, and corruption to urgently heal a nation that is badly bruised, plagued by widening faultlines, and teetering on the brink of collapse. According to clerics, since Easter […]
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Minister for Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare, has revealed that fixing the National Stadium, Lagos would cost about N40 billion. The national edifice, which was constructed in 1972 ahead of the 1973 All Africa Games hosted by Nigeria, has been in bad shape since the Federal Government abandoned it after the construction of the […]
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An ex-Judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands, who was also Nigeria’s former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, has died. He was 89. His eldest child, Segun Ajibola, SAN, announced this in a statement, on Sunday in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital. The deceased jurist, […]
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