Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu, has sought for independent probe into the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) system, even as he directed the Federal Government department to initiate an urgent and independent audit of its digital systems following the large-scale technical disruptions that marred the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Recall that the nationwide examination, a gateway to higher education for millions of Nigerian youths, was thrown...

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has announced that May 30, long marked as Biafra Remembrance Day, will now be known and celebrated as Igbo Heroes Day. This was made known in a statement issued by the group’s Deputy National President, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and shared with journalists in Abakaliki on Thursday. According to Isiguzoro, the decision to rename the day is not just symbolic, but strategic. He said it is a way of...