Report says server failed for applicants that wrote the 9:00am and 10:30 a.m. exam on Wednesday. Applicants who wrote Wednesday UTME exam for admission into the University of Benin (UNIBEN) are to be recalled following the collapse of the university’s server. The university, in a terse short messaging service (SMS) sent out on Wednesday afternoon, directed the affected candidates, ...

  Former chairman of defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, on Wednesday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that he had no case to answer in the allegations levied against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mr. Maina, who told Justice Okon Abang shortly after the EFCC, through its counsel, Farouk Abdullah, closed its case, ...

  The federal government has directed all mobile provider companies in Nigeria to stop the sales and registration of new SIM cards now to allow an audit of the Subscriber Registration Database. The minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Pantami, gave this directive to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) which is the regulatory authority for mobile services Revealing this ...

  Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother, on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot outside of trial as Britain began vaccinating its population. Britain began rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday, the first Western country to start vaccinating its general population in what was hailed as ...

  Presidency attributes electoral successes to acceptance by Nigerians. The results emanating from the just concluded by-elections across states show that Nigerians still repose great confidence in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a spokesman in the presidency, Garba Shehu said in a statement on Sunday. In the statement, Mr. Shehu said: ”We do not take this confidence of the ...

  LAGOS STATE POLICE COMMAND PRESS RELEASE | REF NO CZ: 5650/LA/PPRO/VOL.3/54* *NO ROOM FOR VIOLENT PROTEST, GATHERING IN LAGOS* The Lagos State Police Command has again warned against any gathering, procession or protest in Lagos State as some unpatriotic individuals and groups are planning to embark on the replica of the recent destructive and violent Endsars protest that left ...

  Two individuals are laying claims to the APC ticket, mounting legal challenge to neutralize each other. NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA • DECEMBER 6, 2020 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday declared APC winner of the December 5, Okigwe senatorial by-election. Announcing the result, the returning officer, Hakeem Adikum, said that the APC polled a total of 36, ...

  The federal government has said that it will sanction any electricity distribution company (DisCo) or its representatives selling meters or asking Nigerians to pay money to get the item. The Special Adviser to the President on Infrastructure, Ahmed Zakari, gave the warning at a stakeholders’ engagement on electricity tariff, organised by the FGN/NLC-TUC Ad-hoc Committee. Mr Zakari said, “We ...

Although this is an old story having been published earlier in October 8th, 2019, we have felt duty-bound to Nigeria and Nigerians, as a media, to republish the article, in case, those for whose attention it was meant didn’t read it. … Editor By Chief Anthony Ani, FCA, Former Minister Of Finance. “A MATTER OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY DEMANDING OUR DEAR ...

  The story of Fulani attack on Abeokuta Mountain took a dramatic turn with the police and the original publisher of the story countering a press statement by the Ogun State command regarding its role in the attack. In this rebuttal, Olubodun Are, speaking for the paper reiterated the online story saying that it stands by the story. The rebuttal ...