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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday alerted Nigerians to the merchants of malpractices in the centres of its 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in some Northern parts of the country. According to the organisation, examination scam syndicates in the Computer-Based Test centres, which used to be in the …

Enugu is heating up politically as 2023 looms. With Governor Ugwuanyi in his 2nd and final term, the coveted seat at Lion Building, Enugu is up for grabs. Who gets it? Well, it depends on who you ask! There are claims that a rotation exists among the three Senatorial Zones …

Aside from BVN, there are other key data systems in Nigeria…. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, recently disclosed that the federal government has begun the process of replacing the Bank Verification Number (BVN) and other national database systems with the National Identity Number …

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, the global financial watchdog, is projecting that Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery would provide an elixir for the country’s economy when it is completed and start production by 2022. In its latest report on Nigeria’s economy, the Fund raised the hope that the start of production from …

Governors in the North on Tuesday described open grazing by herdsmen as obsolete. It should end, they declared. This decision was the outcome of, a meeting of Northern Nigeria Governors Forum, held virtually. The decision is in line with the position of Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, who said herders …

• There is no honour in your statement, Congress lambasts petroleum minister • Increased revenue from crude oil should have multiplier effects, says MAN • FG punishing Nigerians for its failure to make refineries work – Economist The Trade Union Congress on Tuesday took a swipe at the Minister of …

We have received the notice of a planned public protest by some groups of people, which is slated to hold on Saturday, February 13, 2021 at the Lekki Toll Plaza. According to information going round, some groups of persons are planning to re-enact the unruly method of public demonstration employed …

The immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday, said the ongoing membership revalidation exercise is contrary to the party’s constitution. He said: “APC is governed by a constitution and not by man. The constitution only provides for registration and I registered as a …

Malam Nasir @elrufai has revalidated his membership of the APC at his polling unit in Ungwan Sarki, Kaduna

After five months without a substantive leadership, the General Council of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) announced it will hold a special session to ratify Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Director-General next week. The WTO General Council Chair, David Walker met with delegates yesterday to ascertain if there were further objections on the …