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The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has advised Nigerian students to seek to gain demonstrable skills in addition to their education as university degrees and certificates will no longer be a guarantee to securing jobs. Oloyede who gave the advice on Thursday during the convocation ceremony at the Kwara State University, Malete, said …

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, his deputy, Umar Usman Kadafur, Speaker of Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, members of Borno State Executive Council and thousands of mourners attended a funeral prayer for the late Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Engr. Ibrahim Idriss Garba. The funeral prayer, held Saturday evening, was led by the Chief Imam of …

The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday, voted to formally authorize its ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden in a move that could give them more legal firepower to investigate the President’s family’s business dealings. The Republican-controlled House voted 221-212 along party lines to approve the probe which is examining whether Biden improperly benefited from his 53-year-old son …

A magistrate court in Abuja has convicted and jailed a lawyer for six months over defamatory publication against the Dangote Cement Plc. The convict, Augustine Addeh, of the law firm, Mokidi and Co., had caused the publication of an advert in a newspaper of Friday November 6, 2015, where he falsely alleged that the Dangote Cement caused the invasion of …

Following the sacking of the chief executive officers of the aviation agencies in Nigeria by President Bola Amed Tinubu on Wednesday, the Federal Government has again dismissed all directors of civil aviation agencies in the country. This is even as all the affected directors have been ordered to hand over to the most senior officer in their various directorates with …

Arsenal staged a stunning late fightback to earn a point at Stamford Bridge just as Chelsea looked about to enjoy their finest victory under manager Mauricio Pochettino. Chelsea were in complete control after Cole Palmer put them ahead from the penalty spot in the 15th minutes, with William Saliba penalised for handball following the intervention of the video assistant referee. …

A 31-year-old motorcyclist, Yakubu Lucky, was swept away by flood at Dogongada in Lokogoma District of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday. The Head of Public Affairs for the Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Nkechi Isa, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday, said the victim was swept away by flood after a heavy downpour …

Villagers of Tudun Biri, a local community in the Igabi Local Government area of Kaduna State, on December 3 gathered to celebrate Maulud, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad when a military bomb, which was on a routine counter-terrorism operation, dropped on them. The military claimed that their movement was mistaken for suspected bandits. The airstrike was reported to have …

The appointment of a Minister of State for Petroleum Resources from the oil-rich Niger Delta region, according to Yabagi Sani, national chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), is sending the “wrong signal.” Sani, a guest on Thursday’s Sunrise Daily breakfast programme on Channels Television, claimed that confining the appointment to a specific state will instill a sense of entitlement …

Social Democratic Party (SDP) Candidate for the Kogi State Governorship Elections, Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka has reiterated his absolute confidence in the resolve of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a transparently free and fair election on November 11,2023. In a statement by Faruk Adejoh-Audu, his spokesman, Director Communications, for his campaign, Alhaji Ajaka passed the vote of confidence …