The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has announced the commencement of the institution’s online registration for the Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) screening exercise for the 2025/2026 academic session. UNILAG announced this in a statement on Friday, July 25, 2025. The Post-UTME screening, which applies to all undergraduate programmes, will commence …
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Nigeria’s inimitable businessman, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has retired from Dangote Cement. A report by The Eagle Online said on Friday. Before his retirement from the cement arm of his multisectoral businesses, Dangote had served on the board of the company and was its Chairman. The report said that a replacement …
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Peter Obi, former presidential candidate of the Labor Party (LP), on Friday donated N20 million to the dentistry department of the University of Calabar (UniCal). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the donation which was made in Calabar in the presence of some of the students of the …
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Transcorp Hotels Plc has reported a revenue growth of N47.6 billion in the first half of the year. This is a 60.07 per cent rise from the N29.7 billion generated as revenue within the same period under review in 2024. Transcorp Hotels announced this in its unaudited financial report for …
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THE Social Democratic Party (SDP) has disowned former Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasiru El-Rufai, declaring that he is neither a member of the party nor authorised to speak for it or represent it. The SDP Zonal Secretary, North-West Zone, Inuwa Idris, made the disclosure on Friday in Kaduna during a …
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THE Police Command in Anambra says it has in its custody, a 43-year-old female suspect who allegedly engaged in interstate child trafficking. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed this in a statement on Friday in Onitsha. Ikenga disclosed that the suspect was arrested at Uruagu, in Nnewi …
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Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has congratulated the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the emergence of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda as the party’s new National Chairman. Yilwatda was elected on Thursday during the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the party in Abuja. In a statement issued on Friday by …
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THE National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has deployed 1,600 corps members to Edo, for the 2025 Batch ‘B’ Stream I orientation programme, scheduled to commence nationwide on Tuesday, July 29. Dr Frances Ben-Ushie, state Coordinator of the corps, announced this in a statement issued on Friday in Benin. Ben-Ushie also …
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Russia has launched a telecommunications satellite into space on behalf of Iran. Among them are two Russian Ionosfera-M satellites and the Iranian telecoms satellite Nahid-2. The state news agency TASS reported on Friday that a Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Amur region, carrying 20 satellites. …
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A Karu Magistrates Court in Abuja sentenced Mr Emmanuel Solomon, 20, to one month in prison for stealing a cell phone. Magistrate Lami Sani did not grant any option of fine but warned Solomon to desist from criminal activities. Solomon, who lives in Kugbo, Abuja, pleaded guilty to a two-count …
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