The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says 2,030,627 candidates have registered for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME. NAN reports that this is the highest number of applications the board has received in its history of conducting UTME. The board said registration for the examination closed on March 8. In 2024, over 1.9…
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris will on Tuesday meet to debate, a phenomenon that could prove pivotal in their pitched battle for the White House. The ABC News-hosted debate at 9 p.m. ET (0100 GMT on Wednesday) takes place just eight weeks before the Nov. 5 election, with…
The ECOWAS Court has ruled that the Republic of Sierra Leone must pay US$20,000 to UNISEL Limited, a local company, for interfering with its property rights. The court’s decision came after the government’s agents refused to allow the company to enjoy the rights to a property it legitimately acquired from the government in 2013. Delivering…
More than 22 people died and another two dozen were injured when the bus they were traveling in fell into a deep gorge in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand on Monday. The local police officer said over phone. The mishap occurred in Marchula area of the state’s Almora district at around 08:30 a.m., said the…
Hamas has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan. In a press statement on monday, Hamas described the plan as an “aggressive scheme”aimed at displacing Palestinians and undermining their national cause. Hamas said that the Palestinian people, who have endured genocide and forced displacement by…
Prof. Babafemi Adesina Badejo, a former head of political affairs at the United Nations-African Union (UN-AU) Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), has advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to abandon plans for restructuring Nigeria and instead advocate for a return to the country’s pre-civil war confederal system of government. Badejo believes that a confederal system would…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says deficit of leadership is a major challenge confronting the world, Africa inclusive. Obasanjo made the assertion on Monday at the 11th African Biblical Leadership Initiative (ABLI) 2024 Conference, organised by the Bible Society of various countries across the world, hosted by Nigeria in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
Amb John Metchie, the Deputy Commander General of the Nigeria Forest Security Service (NFSS), on Wednesday urged Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau, to empower guards of the service to protect the people. Metchie made the call while reacting to the recent killing of over 50 people in Plateau in Abuja. The commander said he was…
The Wife of the President, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, has donated N100 million to victims of tanker explosion in Niger State. She announced the donation when she visited Gov. Umaru Bago of Niger at the Government House in Minna on Tuesday, to commiserate with him over the recent tanker explosion in the state. The News Agency…
The University of Ibadan (UI) has matriculated 4,649 students for the 2024/2025 academic session. The matriculation ceremony was held at the International Conference Centre of the institution in Ibadan on Wednesday. The institute’s Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof. Kayode Adebowale, said the students, from within and in the diaspora, sought admission through the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations…
