The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has paraded two of its staff members who extorted money from Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates with the promise to help them secure university’s admission. The affected staff; Mr Andy Okoro- a level 12 officer in Delta State JAMB’s office, said he collected N500,000 from four candidates’... Read More
Drug war: US, UK pledge more support for NDLEA . British govt donates speedboat, as Marwa talks tough The United States and the United Kingdom governments have pledged more support for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA after expressing satisfaction with the successes recorded by the new leadership of the Agency in just... Read More
***As Senators attribute inability of Nigerian researchers to produce covid-19 vaccines to lack of research A bill seeking to establish the Federal University of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Iyin Ekiti, on Tuesday scaled second reading in the Senate. Sponsor of the bill, Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti Central), while leading debate... Read More
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said Nigeria would have started producing its own refined petroleum products if Dangote Refinery had existed years ago. She said this yesterday during her visit to the President Muhammadu Buhari. According to her, the President and Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited, Alhaji Aliko Dangote,... Read More
Arik Air last night reacted to stories alleging that its operations were unsafe and admonished those parading such information to verify the true position before declaring the airline’s flight to be unsafe. A statement issued by the airline’s CEO, Captain Roy Ilegbodu, stated that actions taken by the crew of the Abuja March 8, 2021... Read More
The Katsina State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has nabbed two suspected human traffickers and rescued 18 victims in Charanchi Local Government Area of the state. The state Comptroller of the Service, Abdulrazak Muazu, who unveiled this to journalists Tuesday at the Command’s headquarters in Katsina, said the duo were apprehended at a... Read More
The Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures inflation increased by 17.33 per cent (year-on-year) in February 2021, compared to16.47 per cent in the preceding month, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). It said the 0.86 percentage increase followed upwards price adjustments in the food and core indexes – which determine inflation. The composite... Read More
The federal government yesterday released the dates for the reopening of Kano, Port Harcourt, and Enugu airports for international flights. Speaking in Abuja during the briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced the dates during the weekly briefing of the Presidential Task Force, said Enugu airport would... Read More
Three people are dead and 183 others have been hospitalized in Kano after consuming expired fruit juice The state commissioner for health, Dr Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, said this affected 13 local government areas of the state. Tsanyawa told reporters on Tuesday in Kano that the incident occurred after the victims consumed expired citric acid powdered... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, honoured Master Izuchukwu Godswill Edeani, an Enugu State student, who won this year’s edition of “The 774 Young Nigerian Scientists Presidential Award” (774 – YONSPA), in Abuja, on Sunday. The prestigious national scientists presidential award was presented to Master Edeani by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on behalf of President... Read More