The 2023 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) earlier scheduled for Thursday, March 16, 2023, has been shifted to Thursday, March 30, 2023. The shift in date was partly owing to the change in the date for the gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 11, 2023 but…
The Lagos State Government says it has noted the hardship sparked by the Naira redesign policy, which has affected business and commercial activities. “There is no reason to reject the old notes, going by the Supreme Court judgement delivered on March 3, 2023,” Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu asserted in a statement on Monday. The apex court declared that…
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has confirmed an attack on Grow Homes Estate along Kuchibiyi in the Kubwa area of the nation’s capital by gunmen yet to be identified. According to reports, the gunmen numbering about 20, had invaded the estate on Friday night and whisked away at least nine residents to an unknown…
The Delta State Police command has confirmed the assault on a police officer by officers of the Nigerian Navy in a trending video on the social media. In the one-minute, 30 seconds clip, an assaulted officer was seen moving about restlessly inside the premises of the police station, with angry colleagues appealing to him to…
Scores of residents of the Olomo community in Apete, Ibadan, Oyo State capital, are currently in panic over the invasion by some armed robbers. Apete is one of the communities in the Ido Local Government Area in Oyo State. It was gathered that on Saturday that some armed robbers invaded the Eleshin area in the…
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja on Friday held that only the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is empowered by law to determine the mode of collating and transmitting election results. In a judgement, Justice Nwite stated that only INEC has the prerogative to direct how the Polling Unit Presiding Officer should…
Residents of Akenfa community, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Friday, took to the streets to protest the continued rejection of the old N500 and N1000 notes by traders in the state. The protesters, made up of mostly women, youths and a handful of men, displayed placards with various inscriptions including “Bank…
Oluwaseun Osinbajo, the driver of the Lagos State Government staff bus that was involved in the incident that led to a train colliding with the bus at the PWD/ Shogunle railway line, on the Agege motor road in Lagos, on Thursday, has asked families of victims for forgiveness. The driver, however, blamed the incident on…
President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed Saheed Aderinto, the US-based Nigerian professor, who won the Dan David history prize of $300,000. Aderinto, a professor of History and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University, is the first Nigerian to win the prize. He was among the nine scholars who clinched the award considered as the largest…
The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction and sentencing of 37 Internet fraudsters to various terms of imprisonment, fines, and community service. The convicts were prosecuted before Justices Mohammed Owolabi, Ladiran Akintola and Mojeed Ishola of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan; Justice Olanrewaju Mabekoje, A.A. Babawale,…
