The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has apprehended six Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres in Kano State as well as 34 candidate for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for exam malpractices JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede confirmed the development in Kano Wednesday. Among those arrested was a law student of the Bayero University (BUK), […]
Author: Our Reporters
Obi not in talks with Atiku – Media office
The Media Office of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council has denied that its candidate, Mr. Peter Obi is in talks with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Atiku had claimed that he was in talks with Obi and with the candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party […]
FEC approves N9.6bn refund to Plateau, Borno states for interventions on FG’s road projects
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N9.6 billion as refund for Plateau and Borno states on previous interventions on Federal Government roads in their domains. The Council, chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, also approved the N3.7 billion for the construction of Senate Buildings in both the Osun State University, Osogbo and the Federal University, […]
Gunmen abduct commissioner in C’River
The Commissioner for Women’s Affairs in Cross River State, Mrs. Gertrude Njar has been abducted. According to an eye witness, who refused to give her name for security reasons, said she was kidnapped along Mayne Avenue Road in Calabar South. Although the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Eric Anderson confirmed the abduction of Gertrude, he told […]
Aisha Buhari shares el-Rufai video on ‘elements in Aso Villa working against APC’
Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has shared a video clip of an interview featuring Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, on her Instagram page. Earlier on Wednesday, el-Rufai, in an interview on Channels Television, said there are persons in Buhari’s administration working to ensure the All Progressives Congress (APC) loses the presidential election. “Most of […]
Oyo 2023 Guber: Alliance between me and Adelabu still possible to dislodge Makinde – Folarin
The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Oyo State, Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin, Wednesday said that the window of reconciliation and alliance between him and his Accord Party (AD) counterpart, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, was still open as the February 25 election of the next president of Nigeria would determine the opposition’s strategy. […]
APC PCC backs El-Rufai on Villa ‘elements’ working against Tinubu
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has thrown its weight behind the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai on Villa “elements” working against the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. However, the PCC said that this should not be misconstrued by the opposition parties, as if the governor was referring to […]
Alleged N4.6bn Fraud: ‘After 21 days in EFCC custody, I was cleared of financial crime’ -Obanikoro
Musiliu Obanikoro, the former Minister of State for Defence, Wednesday, told Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, that he was cleared of any financial crime, after spending 21 days in the detention of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Obanikoro, who also made known his experience whilst with the anti-graft […]
Court okays Kanu’s request to apply for access to doctor, medical records
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja Wednesday okayed the request of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu to apply for an order of mandamus to compel the Department of State Services (DSS), to allow him to have unhindered access to his medical doctor. The court granted the permission […]
Naira Redesign: No further extension, don’t succumb to blackmail, Atiku tells CBN
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has advised that there should be no further extension for the exchange of old currency notes with new ones by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Atiku in a statement by his media office on Wednesday stated that any further extension after February […]