•Crisis festers in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Kwara, Zamfara, Rivers, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, others •Tension over marching order on petitions The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has directed the appeals panels set up last week to work on petitions arising from the just-concluded controversial ward congress, to strictly work with the party’s constitution and congress […]
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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) with heads of tertiary institutions will on August 31 at a Policy Meeting, peg the minimum cut – off mark for the 2021/ 2022 admissions. The board disclosed this in its weekly bulletin released by Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin on Sunday in Abuja. It said decisions would […]
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A student of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Daniel Adeniyi, has emerged winner of the 2021 edition of the Committee of Deans of Engineering and Technology of Nigerian Universities’ (CODET) National Engineering Project Competition. He outclassed other contestants from Universities across the country at the grand finale of the Individual Category of the […]
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Oba Aladelusi and Chief Umenweke at the ceremony Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Ogunlade Aladelusi has scrapped the Eze Ndigbo title of the Igbo community in his kingdom as he installed a new Ndigbo leader in his domain. He is Chief Titus Umenweke. The royal father who had earlier approved the appointment about a year […]
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A Good Samaritan has rescued a three-year-old girl found inside a gutter in Ondo City, Ondo State. The little girl, who has been christened Esther, reportedly lost consciousness and almost died as she was tied in both hands and legs, put in a sack and dumped in a filthy gutter in the Ayeyemi area of […]
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Allegations that some lecturers have been conducting examinations for students in hotels are being probed by the University of Calabar. The university had on August 10, issued a memo to the university community, declaring it was launching an investigation into allegations that its lecturers had resorted to conducting examinations at homes and hotels. Although the […]
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Police Inspector General, Mr Usman Baba said that 33 victims of Saturday attack on travellers through Rukuba community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State have been rescued while 20 suspects are arrested. He disclosed this on Sunday in a statement in Abuja through police spokesman at the Force Headquarters, Mr Frank Mba, […]
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The worrisome security threats in the Plateau State capital, the University of Jos on Sunday suspended the ongoing second-semester examinations for the 2019/2020 academic session with immediate effect. This was announced in a statement by the Deputy Registrar, Information and Publications, Abdullahi Abdullahi, that: “Following the unfortunate security breach that occurred in some parts of […]
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A victim of the clash identified as Nurudeem Ajetunmobi (Photo Credit: Olasunkanmi Akinlotan) Supporters of Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola and the Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, on Saturday engaged themselves in a bloody clash over the last party’s ward congress at its secretariat in Osogbo, leaving several persons with varying degrees of injuries. Both now […]
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Popular Nigerian rapper, Ukeje Okechukwu Edward, a.k.a Mr Raw, formerly known as ‘Nigga Raw’ has been hospitalised after he surviving a car crash in Abuja. He broke the news in the early hours of Sunday, August 15, 2021 to his fans via his Instagram page and shared photographs of his badly damaged car, and scars […]
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