2023 Rescheduled Mock-UTME: JAMB announces, notification slips are ready for printing

Candidates, who registered for the 2023 optional Mock-UTME but couldn’t sit for the examination, which was held on Thursday, 30th March, 2023, on account of technical challenges, have been asked to print their Notification Slips from Friday, 14th April, 2023 for the rescheduled mock examination coming up on Tuesday, 18th April,  2023, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The Head of Public Affairs and Protocol( AD/PAP), Fabian Benjamin, in a press statement...

FCT 25% Status: Okowa’s aide faults INEC

…Says 25% votes in FCT compulsory to declare President-Elect The Executive Assistant on Communications to Delta State Governor and PDP Vice Presidential Candidate, Olorogun Barr Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe has said that 25 percent votes in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja is compulsory for a president-elect to be declared. Oghenesivbe accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of playing the devil’s advocate by deliberately and willfully misinterpreting relevant sections of the Constitution of the Federal Republic...

Lagos: Access Corporation partners NiBUCAA to provide free HIV services in communities

Access Corporation has in partnership with the Nigerian Business Coalition Against AIDS (NiBUCAA) conducted three weeks of free Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) services, Including testing and counseling for 10,000 Nigerians. According to the organisers, the exercise kick started at the 2023 edition of Access Bank Lagos city marathon, and is also aimed at increasing the knowledge of HIV status among the beneficiaries and strengthen linkage and referral systems for people living with HIV. The press...

Ugochinyere files contempt of court against Imo CP over plot to frame him for murder, others

Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, House of Representatives member elect, has filed for contempt of court against the Imo State Commissioner of Police. According to our source, a High Court in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), which commences contempt proceedings against the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Ahmed Barde, has approved service of contempt proceedings on him for flouting court order. Recall that an Abuja High Court had earlier in the year granted an order...

JAMB direct entry registration exercise should be decentralised – NANS

… As it mourns candidate’s death in accident The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has made a case for the decentralisation of the ongoing 2023 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Direct Entry (DE) registration exercise across the country. Comrade Afeez Babatunde Akinteye, the Vice President, External Affairs of NANS, in a statement issued on Thursday described the restriction placed on the registration of candidates to the offices of JAMB located in state capitals across...

I will renounce my Nigerian citizenship as soon as Tinubu becomes president – Lagos Ex-Deputy Gov

…Says her life is no longer safe The former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, and first elected female Deputy Governor in Nigeria, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu has said that she will renounce her citizenship of Nigeria as soon as Aswijau Bola Tinubu becomes President. Ojikutu went further to say that she has already told her lawyers to start working on her plan ahead of May 29. The former Deputy Governor lamented the deplorable state of the...

2023 Elections:  Group berates Soyinka over Comment

…Tells Nigerians to boycott his  literary works A group, under the aegis of Free Nigeria Movement (FNM) has berated the Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka over his comment on the 2023 general elections and has accused him of pursuing a selective witch-hunt instead of focusing on the real issues surrounding the elections. Recall that the group has been protesting for the past 21 days at the Unity Fountain, Abuja over alleged irregularities and manipulation of the...

Christian Pilgrimage: Last batch of pilgrims returns to Nigeria- NCPC boss, says

Having completed its pilgrimage exercise, the last batch of pilgrims for the December 2022 Main pilgrimage exercise to Israel and Jordan has returned to the country   According to report, the batch was the 10th batch of pilgrims that participated in the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) December 2022 Main pilgrimage exercise, made up of pilgrims from Plateau, Ekiti,  Kwara, Osun, self-sponsored Pilgrims as well as Consulars.   The last batch of pilgrims departed Nigeria on...

N20bn Payment Probe: northern youths tell NNPCL boss to step aside

…Warns of mass protest TheGroup Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Kolo Mele Kyari, has been told to  to step aside by The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) to allow for an unfettered probe by the House of Representatives into the payment of N20 billion to a ghost consultant. The group alleged that  the NNPC manipulated the fuel subsidy regime which according to it was seen during the acute fuel scarcity that...

Top performing senators, reps members to be honored by stakeholders

Twenty lawmakers in the ninth National Assembly said to be Most Valuable Parliamentarians (MVPs) are set to be honoured by stakeholders ahead of the resumption of the tenth Assembly. According to a report, the lawmakers were gleaned from “an independent, thorough and unprecedented data-driven annual performance appraisals of the 469-member ninth National Assembly since its first anniversary in 2020,” are said to have made the semi-finalists based on their contributions to legislative strengthening and promotion...

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