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The National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu yesterday assured President Bola Tinubu and the entire country that security agencies will accomplish the objective of securing the country as well as re-establish peace and stability. Ribadu was responding to the President’s charge that they should work as a team to deliver …

The lawmaker representing Ilaje/Ese-Odo Federal Constituency constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Donald Ojogo has called on President Bola Tinubu to address the age-long alienation of the South West in appointments into the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Ojogo said the exclusion of the South …

A stakeholder in Nigeria’s energy sector and former presidential candidate, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has said Nigeria will exceed the projection of Price Water Cooper on emerging as the 9th largest economy in the world by 2050 with the right policy mix. Olawepo-Hashim stated this yesterday at a press briefing, while …

Following the controversy generated by a candidate of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME),  Ejikeme Mmesoma, who had reportedly forged and inflated her result, the family of the student yesterday stood behind their daughter, claiming that  there was a conspiracy to deny her, her hard-earned academic success. JAMB had in a …

Dr. Alex Otti- Abia State Governor The Abia State governor, Dr. Alex Otti, on Monday launched a new digital tax system that would help the state eliminate fraud and intermediaries in revenue generation. The new system, which integrates free medical insurance scheme for all commercial vehicle drivers and riders of …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has slammed a three-year ban against Mmesoma Ejikeme, the examination candidate who allegedly falsely inflated her exam scores. It insisted that the result being paraded by the student is fake and that its system cannot be compromised. The board made this known in …

The inability of a plaintiff’s counsel, Prof. Abiodun Amuda-Kannike, SAN, to serve the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with processes stalled hearing in a suit seeking disqualification of Mr Timipre Sylva of the APC from contesting in the Nov. 11 Bayelsa governorship poll. The matter, which was scheduled for hearing, …

A compliance officer at Access Bank Plc., Mr Elijah Adegboye, on Monday, testified in the trial of social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha), charged with laundering six billion Naira. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mompha was not present during Monday’s proceedings. Adegboye was led in evidence by …

President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, told the new service chiefs, the National Security Adviser, NSA, and the acting Inspector General of Police, IGP, that they should work as a team and deliver on the mandate given to them. This is as the NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, assured the President and …

Crime A divorcee, identified as Nneamaka Nwosu, has reportedly thrown Nnokwa community, in Idemili South Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State into mourning with the setting ablaze of a police woman and her two children. The deceased police woman was said to have taken Nwosu in after she was …