The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has registered more than 300,000 candidates for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. According to the board’s weekly bulletin obtained from the board’s website on Monday, JAMB has also registered more than 8, 000 Direct Entry candidates. “Total profile code generated so far is 497,528. “Total UTME pin vended […]
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A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, says she determined since 2007 that she would never accept a ministerial appointment again. Ezekwesili said this in a series of tweets on Monday, adding that she had rejected past ministerial appointments. The former minister’s tweet comes barely two weeks after her former protégé, Japheth Omojuwa, said in […]
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Arapaja (left) Makinde and others at the congress The recently concluded congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Southwest has presented another opportunity for its leadership to get to the drawing board and work out new ways of managing some challenges confronting it. The elections to the regional positions may have come and gone, with […]
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Chadian new leader, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno (Photo by Marco Longari / AFP Chad’s new ruling junta on Sunday vowed to root out a rebel leader accused of “war crimes”, seeking help from neighbouring Niger to track him down along with his fighters. The army has “located the enemy spread out in small groups, now […]
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How gunmen killed eight security operatives in Rivers checkpoints CAN, El-Rufai react to bandits’ attack on Kaduna church Boko Haram invades army base in Borno Gunmen abduct 35, overrun communities in Niger Policemen operate on mufti over harvest of attacks in Imo Southeast governors, leaders seek restructuring to solve security challenges Yesterday, the risk map […]
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“We think that debt has to be seen from the standpoint of its origins. Debt’s origins come from colonialism’s origins. Those who lend us money are those who had colonised us before. Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through […]
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Operators seek incentives to avert job loss ‘We need indigenous firms in the sector not foreigners’ The challenging business environment has continued to assail operations of the nation’s conglomerate sector, just as the bottom-line of the industry’s quoted companies keeps heading south due to apathy and low investors’ confidence. Exacerbated by one year of devastating […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has said the 2021 mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) earlier scheduled for Saturday, April 30, would now hold on Thursday, May 20. It made this known in a statement signed by its Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Sunday, in Abuja. The statement said […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says he is confident Nigeria will become an oasis of peace, security and prosperity in Africa and beyond. His spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the vice president spoke at the ongoing 108th Annual Convention of the Nigerian Baptist Convention in Lagos. The theme of the […]
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The Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria has condemned the Sunday killing and abduction of church worshippers at the Haske Baptist Church, Manni Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of the state. The bandits in large numbers were said to have invaded the church at about 9.00am when Sunday service was ongoing […]
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