Nigerians have been asked to brace up for increase in the prices of bread, a major food item on the table of almost all Nigerians. The produce said their cost of production has risen following the withdrawal of fuel subsidy and the liberalization of the foreign exchange (forex) market by the federal government. […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has barred Ms Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma from sitting the Board’s examination for the next three years in addition to the withdrawal of her 2023 UTME result in line with it’s established procedures. According to a statement issued by JAMB Director of public relations, Fabian Benjamin, the […]
Saudi Arabia has announced the death of five men — four Saudis and an Egyptian national — convicted of carrying out a deadly attack on a house of worship. Arab News, a local media, quoted the Saudi press agency as saying that the incident took place in Al-Ahsa governorate and left five people dead […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has certified that Golden Penny Semovita and other Semolina products do not contain plastic or any similar contaminants. The agency said this is in response to a social media video showing a woman washing Golden Penny Semovita in a sieve using cold water […]
President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, told the new service chiefs, the National Security Adviser, NSA, and the acting Inspector General of Police, IGP, that they should work as a team and deliver on the mandate given to them. This is as the NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, assured the President and Nigerians that the security […]
The lawmaker representing Anambra South in the Senate, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, has told a Biafran agitator, Simon Ekpa, to take his sit-at-home crusade to his home state of Ebonyi and leave Anambra State out of it. Ekpa has been a strong proponent of sit-at-home directives in the South Eastern states despite the mainstream leadership […]
A consultancy deal quietly orchestrated by Zainab Ahmed, former minister of finance, budget and national planning, is raising eyebrows in the power sector, with several insiders telling TheCable it is “illegal” and “a waste of public funds”. To execute a Make-up Gas Reprocessing (MUGR) deal, the ministry appointed a “transaction adviser” in an arrangement […]
The interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Major General Barry Ndiomu (retd.), has said no fewer than 3000 former Niger Delta agitators are on scholarship in tertiary institutions in the country and abroad. He added that all their tuition and allowances for the 2022/2023 sessions had also been paid. The Special […]
The principal of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Nnewi, where Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, was alleged to have forged her JAMB score to emerge as the highest scorer, has said the school is surprised at the announcement. The principal, Mrs Uchekwukwu Edum, said on phone that the controversy over the score is not new to her, […]
