The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) registration for the year 2020 closes today with over 1.9 million prospective candidates for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Dr Fabian Benjamin, the board’s head of Media and Information, disclosed there would be no extension to the exercise. This year’s registration for the examination commenced on Monday, […]

Former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late military Head of State, General Sani Abacha (retd), Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has made a shocking revelation of the alleged role the Founder and General Overseer of the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement, Pastor Lazarus Muoka, played in his life. Al-Mustapha made this disclosure in a speech made […]

Three soldiers of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD) have been rewarded with special promotion to the next rank for their outstanding performance in the ongoing war against insurgency in the North East. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, decorated the soldiers during a visit to their camp on Sunday as part of his operational […]

Former governor of Bayelsa State and Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has called on the people of Bayelsa State to be law abiding in the face of the recent decision of the Supreme Court over the last gubernatorial polls in the state. Sylva assured the people to remain steadfast and hopeful as steps […]

Following a very controversial judgement by the Supreme Court over the Bayelsa State gubernatorial election, the Independent National Electoral Commission went ahead Friday to declare Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the winner of the November sixteenth 2019 Governorship election in Bayelsa State. The Chairman of the Commission Professor Mahmood Yakubu made […]

Richard Ginika Izuora Community residents of Kaduna have narrated how armed bandits killed 21, including 16 members of the same family in an attack in the state. The act reportedly came as a revenge by criminal gangs on the village of Bakali according to residents on Thursday, February 13, 2020. Gunmen on motorcycles raided the […]

Amnesty International on Friday accused Nigeria’s military of burning down villages and forcibly displaced hundreds of people in its fight against Islamist insurgents in the northeast. In the latest allegations, Amnesty said Nigerian soldiers razed three villages after forcing hundreds of men and women to leave their homes in Borno State in January. “These brazen […]

Spitting fire and brimstone and shooting from the hips, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has stated that nobody will be sworn in as governor in Bayelsa state from today. Stating the position of his party on the Supreme Court judgement nullifying the election of Bayelsa State governor elect, David […]