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No Error In Scoring of UTME Candidates- JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has debunked reports of error in the scoring of candidates in the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board warned the public especially candidates of the last UTME to be wary of the guile and other unsavoury activities of fraudsters who were making false claims…
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ASUU Strike: Ooni of Ife Drums Support For Protesting OAU Students
Highly respected traditional ruler, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has drummed support for the protesting students of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife. Great Ife Students, and other students in Nigeria’s public universities have resolved to remain on the streets to press home their demands for the reopening of their institutions following…
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EFCC Arrests, Detains Former Speaker of House of Representatives
Premium Times The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested and detained a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report. Mrs Etteh, who was Speaker between June 6, 2007, and 30 October 30, 2007, was arrested in Abuja on Tuesday by operatives of the Special Duty Unit…
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ASUU Strike: Students Threaten To Stop Osun Guber Election
Punch Newspaper Students protesting the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Ile-Ife, Osun State on Tuesday threatened to stop the July 16 governorship poll in the state if schools were not reopened. The students, who converged under aegis of the Great Ife Concerned Students in collaboration with the Fund Education…
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Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Sadiya Farouq Mourns Kano Explosion Casualties, Mobilizes For Evacuation of Trapped Victims
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq has expressed shock at the gas explosion which left many people dead at Aba Road in Sabon Gari area of Kano state. The National Emergency Management Agency under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, announced that a building also collapsed as a result…
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NYSC Gets New DG, General Muhammed Fada
President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of Brigadier-General Mohammed Fada as the new Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps. Fada, from Yobe State, will take over from Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim who spent two tenures.A source made this known to Punch correspondent on Tuesday. “The Federal Government has appointed a new Director-General for…
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Troops Arrest Prominent Radical Boko Haram Preacher
Troop’s of Operation Hadin Kai prosecuting the war against insurgency have arrested a prominent radical preacher and leader of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād (JAS), Boko Haram terrorists group, Alhaji Ari-Difinoma. Sources said Ari-Difinoma, surrendered to troop’s 21 Special Armoured Brigade Bama on Sunday, May 16, 2022. Ari-Difinoma was said to have been forced…
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Police Clear Air On Cause of Kano Explosion
Kano State Police Command has clearfield cause of explosion that happened along Aba Road by Court Road in the Sabon Gari area of Kano, adding that it was caused by a gas cylinder and not bomb. The Command issued a statement, confirming the explosion but stated that gas and not bomb, caused the explosion that…
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Breaking News: Many Feared Dead Explosion Rocks Kano School (Video)
Panic in Kano as ‘bomb’ explosion rocked Sabon Gari, Fagge Local Government Area of the State. The explosion went off at a school in Aba Road, leaving parents running helter-skelter to pick their children. Effort by the Vanguard to get the Kano State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, proved abortive as…
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Why Uniosun Is Not Joining ASUU Strike – Management
The Management of Osun state University (Uniosun), has stated reason behind the institution decision not to joining the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Public Relations Officer of the school, Adesoji Ademola in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday, said the school has unresolved issues with the national secretariat…