Month: July 2023
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Govt Launches Probe into Alleged Forgery of JAMB Result
The Anambra state government has set up a panel of inquiry to investigate the alleged manipulation of 2023 UTME result by Ejikeme Mmesoma. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, the state commissioner for education, broke the news in a statement on Monday. Mmesoma, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra, has been in the news over…
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FUNAAB Students Cry Out Over Serial Robber Who Collect Bitcoin as Ransom
Punch Newspaper Students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, have urged the state police command to track down a yet-to-be-identified robber known as Saint Stealer for allegedly breaking into their hostel outside the premises of the school to steal their phones and other valuables. The students, while complaining over the development, said…
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Saraki Under Pressure to Lead PDP as National Chairman
Fresh facts have emerged that the governors and National Assembly members elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are putting pressure on a former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, to accept to lead the party in the capacity of national chairman, THISDAY has learnt. A Benue High Court had sacked Dr.…
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7-month-Old Baby Found Alive 24-hours After Bandits Shot Mom Dead in Niger
Daily Trust A seven-month-old baby boy named Habibu has been found sleeping on his mother’s back 24 hours after she was shot dead by bandits on the Pandogari-Allawa road in Shiroro LGA of Niger State. City & Crime gathered that bandits blocked the Pandogari-Allawa road a day to Sallah and shot six passengers, including an…
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Confusion as OAUTH gets two CMDs
There has been confusion at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State, following the appointment of two persons as acting Chief Medical Directors for the facility within one week. Sources in the hospital said Prof Oladiran Adegbehingbe was made the acting CMD of the hospital in a letter dated June 22, 2023, signed…
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Two UNIBEN Students Arrested Over Death of Drowned Colleague
The Edo State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of two students of the University of Benin, Edo State, Samson Kennedy and Wilfred Emmanuel, after the bruised corpse of their colleague, Francis Aniude, was recovered from the Ekosodin River in the Ekosodin community, near the Ugbowo campus of the institution. The state Police Public Relations…
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NYSC Sends Message To Corps Members Over Delay in Payment of June Allowance
The Management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it is aware of the worries of corps members over the delay in the payment of their June 2023 monthly allowance. The Scheme attributed the delay in the payment of June allowance to “administration of funds by various banks”. In a statement on Sunday, NYSC…
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Senate Presidency: Aggrieved Lawmakers Move To Challenge Election of Akpabio in Court
Sunday Sun Newspaper Plans to challenge the outcome of the Senate presidency election in court on grounds that the ballot papers used in the poll had barcodes are not dying down despite efforts made by some ranking senators to pass it as being transparent. Last week, Sunday Sun had exclusively reported plot by 22 All…
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Tinubu’s ministerial nominees undergo security checks
Punch Newspaper The list containing the names of ministerial nominees in the President Bola Tinubu administration is ready and undergoing final security checks, an impeccable Presidency source has told Sunday PUNCH. The source, who did not reveal the names or number of those being considered for ministerial offices, said the Department of State Services and…
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Labour Party Chieftains, Kwankwaso, Wike, Others Reportedly Make Tinubu’s Ministerial List
Ahead of the unveiling of his ministerial nominees, reports have revealed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu may have settled for technocrats, politicians, and top career public servants. The President, according to close allies, might have concluded plans to form a government of national unity, with emphasis on competence, where he would bring technocrats and politicians…