Month: April 2024
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FG Announces Salary Rise For Civil Servants
The President Tinubu led Federal Government on Tuesday approved 25% and 35% salary increase for civil servants across various consolidated salary structures. According to a statement signed by the Head of Press, National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission, Emmanuel Njoku, the increases takes effect on January 1, 2024. The statement added that the augmentation applies…
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8 Major Takeaways From 2024 UTME Results Breakdown
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday, April 29, released the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. The examination which began on Friday, April 19, ended on Monday, April 29. Here’s a breakdown of the results:
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JAMB Won’t Announce 2024 Best UTME Candidates -Registrar
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced that it won’t give names of the top scorers for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, stated at a press briefing in Bwari on Monday that the board considers its UTME to be only a ranking examination. He also said…
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Just In: JAMB Releases UTME Results
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results. Over 1.94 million candidates registered and sat the examination in 118 towns and over 700 centres across the country. The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede announced the release of the UTME results at a press conference held at…
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Currency Experts, Analysts Give Reasons for Naira Depreciation by 23% in 4 Days
Vanguard News A surge in demand for dollars in the parallel market driven by banks and end-users combined with slow forex disbursement to BDCs by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, caused the Naira, last week, to fall by 23 per cent against the dollar, thus recording the worst weekly performance of the Naira since…
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JAMB Concludes Plan To Release 2024 UTME Results
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has concluded plan to release the results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, is to address a press conference in Abuja, on Monday, on the release of the results and other things around it. However, there are indications that results that…
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Naira Appreciates at Parallel Market, as BDCs Operators Proffer Solutions To Depreciation
The Naira on Saturday appreciated against the United States dollar at the parallel market as it appreciated to N1280/$, according to market information obtained by Nairametrics from currency traders. This implied that the Naira appreciated by N120, representing a gain of 8.57 per cent when compared to the N1,400 to a dollar at which it…
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Hamas Confirms Receipt of Israeli’s Ceasefire Proposal
Palestinian resistance group, Hamas has said it had received on Saturday Israel’s official response to its latest ceasefire proposal and will study it diligently before submitting its reply, the group’s deputy Gaza chief said in a statement. “Hamas has received today the official response of the Zionist occupation to the proposal presented to the Egyptian…
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Minister Resigns Over Electricity Crisis
Sierra Leone’s minister of energy resigned on Friday, according to the president’s office, against a backdrop of recent interruptions to the country’s electricity supply. The reasons for Alhadji Kanja Sesay’s resignation were not officially explained, and the energy ministry did not respond to a request for comment from AFP. The ministry has been placed under…
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Popular Veteran Nollywood Actor is Dead
The Nigerian movie industry, Nollywood, has again been thrown into mourning after the news of the death of another veteran Yoruba Actor Ganiyu Oyeyemi better known as Ogunjimi, surfaced on social media on Friday. The Actor’s death was announced by a Yoruba actor, Kunle Afod, in a post on his Instagram page. Mourning the actor,…