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Final Year Varsity Student Slumps, Dies During Football Match
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Just In: JAMB reschedules UTME for affected 379,997 S’East, Lagos candidates
Punch Newspaper The 379,997 candidates in the five states of the South East and Lagos will be rescheduled for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination. The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made this known in a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. “206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos and 92 centres in…
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JAMB, Admits To Errors In 2025 UTME Amid Mass Failure
Punch Newspaper The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has admitted that there were errors which affected the performance of students during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This was stated by The Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who admitted this during an ongoing press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. “What should…
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Mass failure: JAMB, VCs to review UTME results Thursday
Punch Newspaper •Rectors, provosts, principals, examiners to meet JAMB chiefs, candidates decry results discrepancies The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board will on Thursday review the results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination following what it described as “unusual” public complaints. A notice seen by The PUNCH in Abuja confirmed that the review meeting would…
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Sex-for-grade: Varsities, polytechnics crack down on over 50 lecturers
Punch Newspaper No fewer than 50 lecturers across Nigerian public tertiary institutions have been indicted for sexual misconduct between April 2021 and April 2025, The PUNCH has found. While some of the indicted academics, including professors, have been dismissed, others are currently facing disciplinary panels. The cases span universities and polytechnics nationwide, highlighting the widespread…
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Wike Speaks on Recent Meeting With Suspended Rivers Governor, Fubara
Former Governor of Rivers state and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Monday, gave an insight into a parley he had with the suspended governor of the state, Siminalayi Fubara. He said the latter had come to visit him, accompanied by two governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Speaking…
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UTME 2025: JAMB To Review Recently Released Results After Widespread Protest of Low Scores
Premium Times The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)today, Monday, announced its readiness to reviewing the recently released Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. In a statement by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, the board said it is fast forwarding its annual system review, a comprehensive post-mortem of the examination process, as a result of the…
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JUST IN: Dangote refinery offers N10 refund on petrol to customers
Punch Newspaper The Dangote Petrolchemicals Refinery has effected another reduction in the ex-gantry price of its Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol below the publicly announced N835 per litre. Sources confirmed on Monday that the refinery has reduced its price to N825 per litre for its customers, through a rebate of N10 after successful…
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‘My Spirit Has Left There’, Fubara Speaks on Rivers State of Emergency
Channels TV Fubara stated this at the service of songs held in honour of the late elder statesman, Edwin Clark, in Port Harcourt, the state capital, organised by the Rivers Elders Forum on Sunday. “Do you even know if I want to go back there? My spirit has already left there,” he said. The embattled…
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Seven Doors shines like thousand diamonds at 2025 AMVCA (Full List of Winners)
The 2025 edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards celebrated some of Africa’s creative stars on Saturday for their outstanding works in film and television productions. The event, held at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos, showcased the best of African storytelling, with Femi Adebayo’s ‘Seven Doors’ emerging as the night’s biggest winner. …