The second prosecution witness, a former Director of Information Technology of the Central Bank of Nigeria, John Ayoh, has told the Lagos High Court Sitting in Ikeja that former governor of the apex bank, Godwin Emefiele, does not award contracts without collecting bribes. Ayoh stated this while testifying before Justice Rahman Oshodi on Monday…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Monday, released the results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, showing that 1,402,490 candidates out of 1,842,464 failed to score 200 out of 400 marks. The number of candidates who failed to score half of the possible marks represents 78 per cent of the candidates…
The management of Dangote Groups has denied the report that one of its trucks was responsible for the accident that claimed no fewer than 19 lives along the Okene-Lokoja bypass in Kogi State on Sunday. The Chief Branding and Communications Officer of Dangote Groups, Tony Chiejina, disclosed this in a statement made available to…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results. Over 1.94 million candidates registered and sat the examination in 118 towns and over 700 centres across the country. The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede announced the release of the UTME results at a press conference held…
As acute petrol supply challenges enter its second week, independent marketers have explained that issues that led to the scarcity of the product would take another two weeks to be fully resolved. Checks around Abuja on Sunday showed that most stations were out of stock with very few major marketers dispensing the product in…
The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has increased the minimum wage for workers in the state from N40,000 to N70,000. The governor made the announcement at the inauguration of the newly built ultra-modern Labour House secretariat complex for labour unions in the state, along Temboga Road, Ikpoba-Hill, Benin City. Details later…
President Bola Tinubu has insisted that his administration’s decision to remove the petrol subsidy was very necessary to prevent the country from going bankrupt. Tinubu announced the removal of subsidy on petrol the day he was inaugurated into office with the popular “subsidy is gone” speech. The action, however, caused prices of commodities to…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has concluded plans to release the results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, is scheduled to hold a press briefing in Abuja on Monday regarding the release of the results and related matters, as indicated in a notice circulated to journalists…
The immediate-past governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Sunday, asked his counterpart in Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to come out of his hiding and answer his case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Bello has been having a running issue with the EFCC, which declared him wanted after he failed to show up…
A former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Bashir Wali, has revealed how the late former Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed died poor. Wali, 83, made this revelation in an interview with newsmen on Sunday. A former Nigeria’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, between 2014 and 2015, Wali had also served…