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*Announce dates for 2023 major activities The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has, at the end of its management meeting held on Tuesday, 20th December 2022, rolled out some major dates for its activities in 2023. Consequently, the Board has approved the commencement of registration for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from Saturday, 14th January to Tuesday, 14th February 2023. This, however, does not include registration for Direct Entry (DE) application documents as the DE registration would commence from Monday, 20th February to Thursday, 20th April 2022. The Board also fixed Thursday, 16th March 2023, for the conduct…
The Acting Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs Christy Ubah has urged corps members to be vigilant and avoid night outings during their service year. She made the call on Tuesday during the closing ceremony of the 2022 Batch “C” Stream II Orientation Course, at the NSYC Permanent Orientation Camp, Wailo in Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Represented by the NYSC Coordinator in the state, Alhaji Namadi Abubakar, she also advised them to avoid night parties, visit to dangerous places, free car rides and gifts from strangers. “The NYSC management is committed towards making adequate provisions for…
The Federal High Court Abuja has found Doyin Okupe guilty of receiving over N200 million cash from former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki. Okupe is the Director General of Peter Obi’s Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC). Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu on Monday held that the action of Okupe, who is the first defendant in the suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), violated the Money Laundering Act. While stating that the Act provides that no individual or organization shall receive any sum above N5 million and N10 million respectively without passing through a financial…
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, returned to the country with his delegation, which included governors and ministers, after a weeklong engagement at the United States-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC. Earlier on Saturday, Buhari turned 80 and marked the milestone in the United States of America, where Nigerian envoys serving in the U.S. missions of Washington D.C., New York and Atlanta celebrated the President, alongside a few Nigerians in diaspora. The President had attended a three-day U.S.-Africa leaders’ summit and participated in some sideline events, including attending the Nigeria Business and Investment Roundtable and holding a conversation with the United States…
The Minister of Women Affairs, Paulen Tallen on Monday betrays emotions and wept on live television over continuous captivity of Leah Sharibu and over 100 other Chibok girls. The minister’s action took place after presenting the achievements of her ministry at 13th edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB)’ Administration Scorecard Series (2015-2023) organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture. The event was transmitted live by the Nigeria Television Authority, Radio Nigeria and Voice of Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Leah Sharibu was abducted by the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, along with 109 other…
The Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign organisation has challenged Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to disclose his real identity to Nigerians. This was contained in a statement by Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant on Public Communication to Atiku. “The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion, says the Holy Bible. This, perhaps, explains why the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has refused to open himself up for scrutiny but continues to evade debates, non-partisan town hall meetings and live interviews,” Shaibu said. The statement…
• Visit your bank today for redesigned bills, CBN urges Nigerians • Fasua: Nigeria should join global trend • Pay attention to real challenges, let e-payment evolve naturally, says Yusuf • ALMPO to engage CBN on negative impacts of policy on agents • Low smartphone penetration may hinder service • CHRICED urges revocation of ‘draconian’ policy Amid mixed reactions, Nigerians will, for the first time, today, exchange the redesigned N200, N500 and N1,000 banknotes aimed at drastically reducing volume of cash among members of the public. However, low infrastructure, poor network connectivity and unresolved Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) debts…
Ahead of today’s temporary opening of the Second Niger Bridge to traffic, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, accompanied by the Delta State Commissioner for Works (Highways and Urban), Noel Omodon; acting Controller of Works, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing and Resident Engineer for the project, Oluwaseyi Martins; Delta State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Bassey Esiet, and other top federal and state governments officials, inspected the palliative measures put in place to make the road motorable. Martins, while assuring travellers and motorists of smooth movement during the Yuletide, explained that the bridge…
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council of the Governing All Progressives Congress (APC PCC) says there is no iota of truth that it has solicited N18,000 from unsuspecting Nigerians in order to access Empowerment funds from the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Campaign Organization. The Secretary of the Presidential Campaign Council, Rt. Hon. Abiodun James Faleke in a statement disclosed that those behind it were unscrupulous elements who hacked his official Facebook account to extort monies from unsuspecting Nigerians. Faleke enjoined Nigerians to ignore the perpetrators of the fraudulent act. Faleke who doubles as Chairman, of the House of Representatives…
Urges users to download apps only from official sites, stores A MALWARE that steals Facebook account credentials, known as ‘Schoolyard Bully’, has infected over 300,000 android devices. This has prompted the Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) to issue an advisory, reminding users to only download applications from official sites and application stores. The advisory recommended that users double-check each application; uncheck boxes that request extra third-party downloads when installing apps downloaded from Google Play Store; and use anti-malware applications to routinely scan their devices. NCC, yesterday, said researchers from mobile security firm, Zimperium, found several apps…