The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has said the Dangote refinery is not competing with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. According to a statement released by the NNPC spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye, on Friday, Dangote stated this yesterday when he visited the new Group Chief Executive Officer of the NNPC, Bayo Ojulari, […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed why it held the results of some of the candidates who sat for its 2025 examination. At a press conference on Friday in Abuja, the Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, gave impersonation as a major reason for withholding the results. He unraveled a case where an individual […]
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The Vatican had announced that Pope Leo XIV will be inaugurated on Sunday, May 18, 2925, in St Peter’s Square. World leaders will gather for the event which will be held 10 days after the election of Robert Francis Prevost as the first United States head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. The Vatican said […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Friday announced the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results. 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. It also disclosed that 80 […]
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By Banji Ayoola Every earthly human being is on a journey through this earth – a journey towards being a better human being, who will develop and live joyfully to the joy of his neighbours, of others, and eventually be pleasing to his Creator as he wanders along his individual path. A journey that is […]
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Operatives of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) have arrested a suspect for allegedly producing fake popular alcoholic beverages in Lagos State. The agency disclosed that it confiscated the counterfeit products, which were valued at about N114 million. NAFDAC, in a statement on its X page on Thursday, disclosed that […]
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Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has described the retired Appeal Court Justice Jimi Olukayode Bada as a pride to the state and an exemplary gift to the legal profession and Nigeria. He showered accolades at the valedictory of one of the nation’s best legal minds as he pulled out meritoriously from the Lagos Division of […]
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Eminent Nigerians including Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, his five other brother counterparts in the region, ministers, billionaire businessmen Femi Otedola, and Aliko Dangote are billed for Ilesa, on May 23 for the coronation of the new Owa Obokun Adimula and Paramount Ruler of Ijesaland, Oba Clement Adesuyi Haastrup, Ajimoko III, A statement by […]
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Marketers have argued that Nigeria cannot ban fuel importation now, saying the country’s refining capacity is still low. The marketers under the aegis of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria and the Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria said any ban on fuel importation now could trigger scarcity and a hike in […]
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Before his election on Thursday as Pope Leo XIV and the 267th Bishop of Rome, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. The first Augustinian Pope, he is the second Roman Pontiff – after Pope Francis – from the Americas. Unlike Jorge Mario Bergoglio, however, the 69-year-old Robert Francis Prevost is […]
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