Chidimma Uchegbu-Abuja The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has recommended tough penalties for 11 Computer‑Based Test (CBT) centres and their registrants involved in fingerprint irregularities during registration for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made this known after a brainstorming session…
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The Sokoto State government has accorded special interest to effective and efficient public financial management system with is priciple of transparency and accountability in the conduct of goverment business. The Commissioner of Budget and Economic Planning, Dr. Abubakar Mohamad Zayyana, disclosed this while declaring open a Two Day Training Workshop…
The Fact-Finding Committee set up by the Plateau state government to examine incessant violent attacks across communities in the state, has expressed concern over the construction of new houses and cultivation of farmlands by people said not to be indigenes and original owners of abandoned villages. The committee led by…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) has addressed circulating reports claiming that Nigerian pilgrims are currently in Israel for pilgrimage activities. The Executive Secretary, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, clarified that no Nigerian Christian pilgrims are in Israel, as the Commission’s 2024 Main Pilgrimage exercise to Israel and…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Uchegbu The Minister of Foreign Affairs Nigeria, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar on Monday said that Nigeria is set to host the 2025 West Africa Economic Summit ( WAES) scheduled for 20 and 21 June, 2025 in Abuja. The Minister announced this at the Pre-WAES Media Parley with…
Chidimma Uchegbu -Abuja As part of efforts to actualize the Renewed Hope Agenda of the Federal Government, the Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Mukhtar Maiha, and Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, have laid the foundation for the Gombe Ultra-Modern Abattoir. The facility is a key component of the Gombe…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve data and information sharing aims to boost revenue remittances to the Fund and promote transparency in the extractive sector. Speaking at the MoU signing in…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has condemned the recent killings in Benue State, describing them as inhuman and callous. According to the press statement released to the newsmen in Abuja by the Deputy Director and Head Media and…
By Emmanuel Ado The Sokoto State industrial landscape, which presently looks more like a Sahara desert, is totally unacceptable to Governor Ahmad Aliyu because it is a far cry from what it use to be in the 1980’s up to the late 1990’s, when Sokoto state could confidently boast of…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the Abuja and Lagos Global Shapers Hubs—youth initiatives of the World Economic Forum—successfully hosted the West Africa Youth Futures Roundtable on Friday, June 13, 2025. The event, held at the Rotunda Hall of the Ministry and streamed virtually…