The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Tuesday, cancelled general cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions and gave schools the freedom to set their individual minimum benchmarks for admission. The Board took the decision at the 2021 policy meeting, which was held virtually, and chaired by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu. Speaking during […]
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to hear a fresh bail application filed by a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. The vacation judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, refused to hear the bail application which was moved by Maina’s counsel, Mr David Iorhemba, on the grounds that it […]
A federal high court sitting in Lagos has frozen a Kogi state salary bailout account domiciled in Sterling Bank Plc, over a N20 billion loan obtained from the bank. Tijjani Ringim, presiding judge, granted the order following an ex parte application brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), pending the conclusion of the […]
Counsels to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, said they were “practically stripped naked” by officials of the Department of State Service during their visit to the IPOB leader. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel to the Nnamdi Kanu, lamented that the dehumanisation of the lawyers continued during Monday’s visit. Ejiofor had […]
Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo has said that the state governments should be blamed for problems associated with Nigeria’s education sector, especially primary and secondary education. He said the large chunk of basic and secondary schools in Nigeria were state-owned while the federal government provided support to the state governments. Osinbajo spoke Tuesday in Abuja […]
President Joe Biden called the US airlift of more than 120,000 people from Afghanistan an “extraordinary success” Tuesday, a day after the last US soldiers pulled out of the country. “We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history,” Biden said. “No nation has ever done anything like it in all of history; only the […]
Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, has signed the anti-open grazing bill into law. Akeredolu signed the bill on Tuesday after it had been earlier passed by the state house of assembly. The governor said the move is in line with the resolution of the southern governors that all states in the region should make […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed all banks to publish names of customers who violate the rules on Forex acquisition. The directive was contained in a circular signed by the Director Banking Supervision Department of the CBN, Haruna B. Mustafa, on Monday. According to the circular, people using fake visas and canceling air […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday urged Nigerian graduates to apply for the Jubilee Fellows Programme. The programme, a Federal Government initiative in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), aims to place 20,000 skilled young Nigerian graduates (under the age of 30) into jobs in private and public sector organizations around the country. The […]
Retired Navy Commodore Kunle Olawunmi on Wednesday reported himself at the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) after his invitation by the military over his Channel’s TV interview last week A top source at the DIA told the Nigerian Tribune that the former Navy commander arrived at the agency’s office in the company of his lawyers on […]
