Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the commencement of sales of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and direct entry forms. It advised prospective candidates seeking admission to university, polytechnic and other tertiary institutions to begin the process of registration. It urged interested candidates to obtain their forms from Saturday, January 14, 2023, adding…
A 13-year-old French boy has reportedly taken his own life after he was subjected to homophobic bullying at school. Prosecutors have opened an investigation into harassment of a minor after the boy, Lucas, committed s*icide last weekend in the Vosges region of eastern France. Regional prosecutor Frederic Nahon said that the boy’s friends told investigators…
Properties worth millions of Naira have been destroyed as fire gutted the Araromi spare parts market in Ibadan, Oyo State. The fire broke out in the early hours of Saturday, January 14. About 45 shops were affected by the fire incident at the spare parts market, which is one of the major markets in Ibadan. The fire started…
A 3-year-old girl has passed on after she was found in a washing machine in France. According to the Le Parisien newspaper, the girl was found alive in the washing machine last night, Jan. 12. She was then rushed to hospital where she died in emergency care an hour later. Her father and another family…
A preacher convicted of fraud for selling a bogus cure for Covid has said he cannot afford to pay any financial penalties despite having more than £300,000 in trading accounts, according to prosecutors. Bishop Climate Wiseman, 47, sold mixtures of hyssop, cedarwood and olive oil for £91 under names including “divine cleansing oil” and “plague…
Sonia Ekweremadu, the daughter of embattled former Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has denied charges of trafficking a homeless man into the UK to harvest his kidney for a transplant. The 25-year-old who is being charged alongside her father Ike Ekweremadu, 60, her mother, Beatrice Ekweremadu, 56, and a Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 50, pleaded not…
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Seme Police Division in Lagos State, SP Mojeed Salami, has been confirmed dead after he collapsed in his office on Tuesday, January 10. Police sources say the deceased had complained of headache on the said day and had visited the hospital. He returned but was still feeling unwell. He…
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has insisted that it will not extend the deadline for the stoppage of the circulation of the old Naira notes following the introduction of new notes. CBN in a Facebook post on its verified page on Friday reminded Nigerians that new notes of N200, N500 and N1000 would cease…
A 50-year-old man identified as Ojo Ogundeji, has been confirmed dead after he set himself on fire, razing down his father’s house in Oloruntedo area, Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. The deceased reportedly locked himself inside a room and lit the fire. The Nation reported he told his rescuers before he died,…
The police in Nasarawa state have rescued thirty (30) kidnapped victims. A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Ramhan Nansel, says the police rescued the victims after it received information that suspected kidnappers were sighted at Sardauna Forest of Toto LGA, Nasarawa State where they held victims, hostage. “In reaction to…