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  • FG To Review Age Requirement For Admission Into Tertiary Institutions

    FG To Review Age Requirement For Admission Into Tertiary Institutions

    Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, Monday, hinted that the federal government would review age requirement for admission into tertiary institutions across the country. Mamman pegged 18 years as benchmark for admission into universities, advised parents not to push their underage wards to higher education, especially university education, below the age of 18. Prof. Mamman…

  • Management, Family Member React, as Final Year Student ‘Disappear’ at His Lodge

    Some yet to be identified armed men have reportedly abducted John Udochukwu Elekwachi, a final-year student of Combined Social Sciences at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. According to PUNCH Metro, the abducted student, Elekwachi, a campus blogger, was picked up by some yet-to-be-identified armed men last Monday at his lodge in the middle of the…

  • EFCC, Yahaya Bello Move Battle To Appeal Court

    Vanguard News The battle by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to remove all legal hindrances in its efforts to arrest and bring for trial the immediate past governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, will begin today, at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, as the anti-graft agency has approached the court…

  • UTME ’24: JAMB Kicks Against Official For Directing Muslim Candidate To Remove Hijab

    UTME ’24: JAMB Kicks Against Official For Directing Muslim Candidate To Remove Hijab

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has raised its eyebrow over one of its officials in Lagos for directing a female candidate to remove her hijab before entering the examination hall. This came as JAMB said the conduct of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, which commenced on Friday, 19th April, 2024, “had…

  • APC Speaks On Conduct of Ondo Guber Primary

    APC Speaks On Conduct of Ondo Guber Primary

    Following the late arrival of materials and personnel to 13 wards in Okitipupa council area of Ondo state, the All Progressive Congress governorship Primary Election Committee, has rescheduled the exercise for Sunday, April, 21. Recall that the party, held the governorship primary election across the 203 wards in the state on Saturday, April 20. 16…

  • Workers’ Day: NLC Lists Seven Demands from FG

    Workers’ Day: NLC Lists Seven Demands from FG

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  • How Naira Transformed From Worst Currency to Best-performing in Six Months – Cardoso

    How Naira Transformed From Worst Currency to Best-performing in Six Months – Cardoso

    The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Yemi Cardoso, shares his vision on how he intends to shape Nigeria’s monetary policy, address FX issues, and tackle inflation in an interview with the International Monetary Fund African Department Director, Abebe Selassie, at the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington DC, United States of America,…

  • Day 1:Mixed Reactions Trail 2024 UTME in Lagos

    Day 1:Mixed Reactions Trail 2024 UTME in Lagos

    Hitches were reported at some centres in Lagos on Friday as the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) began across the country. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that no fewer than 1.9 million candidates registered for the computer-based examination nationwide. NAN correspondents who monitored the first day of the examination in Lagos report that…

  • Popular Northern Monarch Shot Dead in Palace

    Popular Northern Monarch Shot Dead in Palace

    A renowned Northern traditional ruler, Alhaji Abdulmutalib Jankada, of Sansani chiefdom in Gassol local government area of Taraba state, is dead. He was shot dead by gunmen who invaded his palace on Thursday night. According to witnesses, the assailants who rode into Sansani town on motorcycles, sneaked into the palace to gun down their target.…

  • EFCC Vs Yahyah Bello: A Well-Deserved Embarrassment

    EFCC Vs Yahyah Bello: A Well-Deserved Embarrassment BY BUSY BRAIN 🧠 For the past two weeks, the action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been making news and forming opinions in the media. From the Bobrisky money laundering saga to the Cubana Chief Priest case, and now, the EFCC has migrated the…

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