The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, has denied allegation of shooting at pro-Yahaya Bello protesters at its headquarters on Monday in Abuja Spokesman for the commission, Dele Oyewale said this while responding to a video trending on social media on the allegation of attack by the EFCC operatives on protesters. Oyewale told NAN that…
King Charles III will be returning to public duties after the positive effect of his cancer treatment. DOPETV recalls that King Charles has been on cancer treatment since he was diagnosed early February this year. According to NAN, in spite of the welcome news of responding positively to the treatment, the king still has cancer….
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has confirmed that 1,402,490 candidates out of 1,842,464 failed to score 200 out of 400 marks, in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board released the results on Monday. And it showed that the number who failed to score half of the possible marks was 78%…
A decline in the number of Americans who identify as religious and an increase in those who change religions means Christians may be on track to become a minority population in the United States by 2070. That’s according to the authors of a new Pew Research Center report, which assessed several hypothetical scenarios to model…
Maritime researchers have discovered weapons chest, and pieces of armour from a 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden. According to a news release from Stockholm University, a fire on Griffin (also popularly known as the Gribshunden or Griffin-Hound) while sailing to Kalmar in 1495 caused it to sink. The ship served as the flagship…
Following the violent attack on Barrister Olumide Akpata, the Labour Party candidate for the September 21, 2024, governorship election in Edo State, the management of University of Benin, UNIBEN, has suspended the students’ union government of the institution indefinitely. Akpata was attacked by suspected political thugs at the university’s senior staff club on April 12,…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC Ltd, has assured Nigerians that the ongoing fuel scarcity and queues will be cleared out Wednesday, May 1. The Chief Communications Officer, NNPCL, Olufemi Soneye, disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos. He said the company currently has an availability of product exceeding 1.5 billion litres, which can…
A Kano High Court has fixed May 16, 2024, to rule on the heated arguments regarding delivering criminal dharges to former Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, his wife, Hafsat Ganduje and six others, through substituted means. The prosecuting counsel in the criminal case, Barrister Adeola Adedegbe, is asking the court to allow him to send service…
Long queues of vehicles; commercial and private, as well as motorcycles and tricycles, have returned to Ibadan, the Oyo state capital. The long queues were seen early in the morning and still persist as at the time of filing this report. . Our correspondent gathered that the long queues were a result of the scarcity…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has said that it is working closely with the Nigeria Army to restore total peace in the trouble Okuama community in Delta State. NDDC disclosed this in Port Harcourt at a Strategic Capacity Building on Conflict Management and Peacebuilding Approaches for NDDC’s Personnel, tagged, “Fostering Peaceful Engagement for Sustainable…
