Month: July 2021
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NDLEA Releases Second List of Successful Candidates
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has released the second batch of Narcotics Assistant (NASS) list of successful candidates for the 2019 recruitment exercise and the updated final list for the Narcotics Officer cadre. This was contained in a statement issued by the Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi. According to the…
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Dunamis Church Speaks On Arrest of #BuhariMustGo Campaigners
Dunamis Int’l Gospel Centre, Lugbe, Abuja has shed more light on why some young men wearing a T-shirt with the inscription ‘BuhariMustGo’ were arrested. There were unconfirmed reports that the Senior Pastor of the Dunamis Int’l Gospel Centre, Dr Paul Enenche invited the DSS to arrest those youths for protesting inside the church. But a…
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Eight Remanded Over Alleged Murder of UNILORIN Student
An Ilorin high court, yesterday ordered remand of eight suspects over alleged rape and murder of a 24-year-old University of Ilorin student, Olajide Blessing (Omowumi). The suspects remanded by Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court are Abdulazeez Ismail, Ajala Oluwatimileyin (aka Jacklord), Oyeyemi Omogbolahan, Abdulkarim Shuaib (aka Easy), Kareem Rasheed (Rashworld), Abdullateef…
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Two Secondary schools Shut in Lagos, After Students Test Positive for COVID-19
The management of two private schools in Lekki, Lagos, Lagoon Girls’ Secondary School and Standard Bearers Secondary School shut down the citadel of learning after some students tested positive for COVID-19. According to Tribune, both schools decided to shut the schools themselves following reported COVID-19 case by parents of students of the schools who fell…
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Proprietor of Kaduna School Reveals What Bandits Told Him About Kidnapped Students
From Noah Ebije Kaduna Rev Yahaya Adamu Jangado, the Proprietor of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, where students were abducted on Monday, disclosed on Tuesday that the bandits called to say that the students are in safe hands. Rev Jangado said that the bandits gave him the opportunity to speak with a couple of the…
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Poly Student Bags 8-year Jail Term Over Illegal Possession of Firearms
A Magistrate Court sitting in Lokoja has sentenced a student of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja to 8 years imprisonment for illegal possession of firearms and unlawful association. Shehu Tenimu Mohammed, an ND II student of the Department of Public Administration, was nabbed with a locally fabricated revolver pistol and five rounds of live ammunition while…
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Yahoo-Yahoo: Court Orders 21-year-old Student To Sweep School For 90 days in Abuja
A federal capital territory (FCT) high court on Tuesday ordered 21- year-old student, Abraham Umuibe, to sweep Mpape Government Secondary School for 90 days for defrauding a Chinese woman of N113, 000. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had charged Umuibe with cheating and falsely representing himself as a Chinese citizen and military officer…
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Update On Minister Who Slumped While On Official Engagement in Bauchi
A reliable source at the trauma centre of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) in Bauchi where the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and investment, Maryam Katagum was rushed to for medical attention has said that the Minister has regained consequences and stable. When Tribune Online correspondent visited the hospital on Tuesday, medical…
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Jamb And The Battles Against Education
By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa LAST week, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, revealed the success and failure rates from the recently concluded UTME, which is the only means of securing admission into higher institutions in Nigeria. For the year 2021, over 1.3 million candidates registered for the examination which…
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Court Orders Remand of Former JAMB Registrar, Dibu Ojerinde in Prison
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that a former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde be remanded in prison custody. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a ruling on Tuesday, ordered that Ojerinde be kept in a correctional facility pending the hearing of his bail application, scheduled for July…