The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that a blind candidate hired a fellow blind man to impersonate him for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB Registrar Prof Ishaq Oloyede, who spoke at a press briefing on Friday, disclosed that the blind impersonator is an undergraduate. Oloyede stated that the board […]

Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted three consecutive days to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to conclude the ten-year-old corruption charges it instituted against a former National Security Adviser Mohammed Sambo Dasuki. The judge allocated 7, 8 and 9 July for the anti-graft agency to conclude the […]

Operatives of the Nigeria police have rescued 25 Ivory Coast citizens from the hands of a cross-border kidnapping syndicate operating in Ogun State. This was as the police also arrested eight suspects in connection with the crime during an operation carried out in conjunction with Interpol. A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa […]

Lagos State Command of the Nigerian police has arrested a 25-year-old man, Samson Oghenebreme, in the Odomola community of Epe for being in possession of human organs. The man was arrested by men of the Odo-Noforija Police Division following a tip-off from vigilant members of the community, according to Channels Television. The community alerted the […]

Nigeria President, Bola Tinubu, has once again stood firm by his administration’s economic reforms. The President insisted that some of the decisions he made on assumption of office in 2023 were not to hurt Nigerians but to sustain healthy growth for the country. Tinubu, who took over from Muhammadu Buhari about two years ago, said […]

A rift has erupted between journalists and media executives in Kano State following a controversial directive from the state government banning live political programmes on radio. The directive, which emerged after a quarterly meeting convened by the Kano State Ministry of Information and Internal Affairs, was officially signed by Sani Abba Yola, Director of Special […]

A professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, has said that he would never seek any political office in Nigeria again. Utomi made this statement on Friday in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television. The professor also said that he won’t accept any appointment or contract by any Nigerian government. “Let me […]

Two communities in Benue State came under deadly attacks on Friday afternoon as suspected herdsmen killed nine farmers despite the presence of heavy security in the area. The attacks occurred in Ayilamo, located in Tombo ward of Logo Local Government Area, and in Jato-Acka, Kwande Local Government Area. Eyewitnesses said over 20 armed assailants stormed […]