Month: October 2021

The National Examination Council, NECO, on Friday announced the release of the results of the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, SSSCE, conducted nationwide in July. NECO Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Dantali Wushishi, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Minna. He said that out of 1,233,631 candidates who registered; 1,226,631 actually sat for the…

Management of Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, has declared an outstanding student of the institution, Kaitlin Gee-Akwada, as one-day Vice Chancellor after attaining a Cumulative Grade Point Average, CGPA, of 5.0. The distinguished student took to her LinkedIn page to share pictures of the memorable event on Wednesday. The celebrated student, Gee-Akwada, alluded her enviable achievement…

Saudi Arabia’s President of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, Sheikh Abdulrahman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Sudais, on Wednesday inaugurated the smart disinfection robot at the Grand Mosque, Mecca, which works for four hours, with a capacity of more than 68 liters of water, and covers more than 2,000 square meters per…

National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Zone A, has declared three-day mourning over the death of five students from Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education Kano State. This student’ body let this out in a statement signed by Mikail Abdullahi, its Public Relations Officer for zone A. The students lost their lives while several others sustained…

Gunman suspected to be one of the Biafran National Guard gunmen who attacked troops’ location at Amaekpu, Ohafia Local Government, Abia State, has been neutralized by gallant officers conducting Exercise Golden Dawn on Thursday night, 28 October 2021. The troops in a statement by Director, Army Public Relations, Brig-Gen Onyema Nwachukwu said, “The assailants, who…

The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has revealed that the anti-graft agency recovered 301 houses from two public servants in the nation’s capital, Abuja. ICPC boss made the disclosure at the inauguration of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Investigation of the Operations of…

Facebook is changing its company name to Meta as it confronts wide-ranging scrutiny of the real-world harms from its various platforms after a whistleblower leaked hundreds of internal documents, CNN has reported. The change will demote Facebook’s namesake service to being just one of the company’s subsidiaries, alongside Instagram and WhatsApp, rather than the overarching…