The wife of Cross River State Governor, Rev Eyoanwan Otu has undertaken to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to Calabar street children, urging them to have hope. She took a visit to the different joints and dens where the street children put up to identify their specific needs with the aim of developing…
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has listed 14 states and 31 communities that may witness heavy rainfall that may lead to flooding from July 4 – 8. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, NEMA’s Territorial Coordinator for Lagos Territorial Office, disclosed this in a statement released on Wednesday, July 5. Relevant stakeholders within the states concerned have…
A Magistrate Court sitting in Yenagoa has ordered that a 30-year-old man, Kingsley Solomon, be remanded at the correctional centre in Okaka, for allegedly stealing a two-month-old baby at Azikoro Town in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Solomon was arraigned by the Bayelsa State Police Command before Magistrate Sarah B.I Avoh on…
Representatives of Bank of America have expressed optimism with the administration of President Bola Tinubu. This was stated by the bank’s President of International, Mr Bernard Mensah. Mensah said it is excited by the early decisions taken by President Bola Tinubu. Briefing journalists on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Mensah lauded Tinubu…
Mmesoma Ejikeme on Wednesday confirmed that she received an automated text message from JAMB indicating that her score was 249. She also stated that when she checked through the USSD code, she saw 360. The Anambra student accused of manually inflating her 2023 UTME result by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board spoke during…
Ebonyi communities have continued to boil as hoodlums set ablaze a police van at Ukwagba village and shot sporadically to scare citizens in a bid to enforce the seven- days sit-at-home order declared by a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, led by Simon Ekpa. It was gathered that the hoodlums who…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed why it involved the Department of State Services (DSS) in the forgery allegation against Ejikeme Mmesoma. Recall that Mmesoma who was accused of forging her result which made her the student with the highest score in the 2023 UTME, had alleged that JAMB did not wait…
The naira has appreciated against the dollar, exchanging at N741.50 at the investors and exporters window as at the close of business on Monday, July 3. On Monday, $88.68 million was traded at the investors and exporters window according to Forex reports. The naira then gained by 3.61 per cent compared with N769.25, which it…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially announced the withdrawal of Anambra pupil, Mmesoma Ejikeme’s result and banned her from writing the examination for three years. In a statement released on Tuesday, July 4, JAMB spokesman, Benjamin Fabian, said after considering the ‘weighty infraction’ committed by Ms Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma, and in line…
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has issued a warning to anyone planning to forge its discharge or exemption certificates. According to NYSC, such an individual will face jail term, option of fine or both as penalties. The Director, Legal Services, Mr Ahmed Ibrahim, said this on Monday in Abuja during the 2023 Legal Officers’…