Chidimma UCHEGBU, Abuja The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reopened the registration for the 2023 direct entry registration starting March 20 2023 to close on April 28, 2023. Making this announcement on Monday, the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede disclosed that the Board had to suspend the registration…
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Chidimma UCHEGBU Nigeria and Israel have commenced collaborative moves to deepen partnership in innovation, entrepreneurship and production with the aim of harnessing Nigeria’s huge potentials for its technological development. This was disclosed when the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Mr. Michael Freeman paid a working visit to the Executive…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The 2023 Mock-UTME earlier scheduled for Thursday, 16th March 2023, has been shifted to Thursday, 30th March 2023. The shift in date is partly owing to the change in the date for the Gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly Elections earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday,11th March 2023…
Chronic Kidney Disease is too often undetected and undertreated, without sufficient public health policies in place to address its rapid spread in Africa By Viraj Rajadhyaksha There is a silent killer in our midst. It affects 850 million people worldwide and is a leading cause of death globally.1 Despite its…
Chidimma UCHEGBU A new global report by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) puts the number of adolescent Nigerian girls and women aged between 15 and 49 years who are undernourished at 7.3 million. This is an increase from 5.6 million in 2018 2018. The reports put Nigeria among the…
Says, “despite boasting the biggest electoral register in Africa of 93.4 million voters, fewer than 25 million valid votes were counted in Nigeria’s 2023 election.” Johnson Ebule, Lagos The London-based political think-tank, Chatham House, has taken a swipe that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its chairman, Prof. Mahmoud…
Mikael Joshua, Abuja The Atiku Alliance for Good Governance (TAAGG) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to save Nigeria’s democracy by upholding extant laws that affect the conduct of the country’s Presidential and National Assembly elections and invalidating discredited polls where necessary, as recommended by law. This…
Prof Mike Ozekhome, SAN Whilst it is true that a literal reading of section 299 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic shows that the Federal Capital Territory is not a State, but from the words, “as if it were one”, contained in the provision, section 229 actually indeed grants…
Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu There is always something that makes the Nigerian lose faith in the Nigeria Police. In spite of efforts to reform the Police and make it amenable to proper conduct, operatives of the force often act in a manner suggesting that they do not care. And, sometimes they make…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has suspended the ongoing Direct Entry registration exercise, which commenced on Monday, 20th February, 2023, with effect from Tuesday, 21st February, 2023. A statement from JAMB signed by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, Head of Public Affairs and Protocol at the board, said the suspension…