The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, announced the release of the results at a press conference held at the ...
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CBN Orders MoniePoint, Kuda, Others To Stop Onboarding New Customers
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed fintech companies to stop onboarding new customers until further notice. This directive is coming few months after the CBN mandated all financial institutions to collect ID cards before creating financial accounts, which ...
Read More »1.8m Candidates To Write WASSCE As Exams Begin Tuesday
No fewer than 1,814,344 candidates from 22,229 schools have been registered by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), to write the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates beginning from Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The examination ...
Read More »Abacha Loot: FG Urges US To Repatriate More Stolen Funds
The Federal Government has called on the United States Government to return more Nigerian funds looted by public officials and stashed in banks in the country. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, made this appeal in his remarks at ...
Read More »8000 Athletes To Participate In MTN Champs Season 2 Tournament In Calabar
Arrangements are in top gear by 8,000 athletes drawn from the six geopolitical zones to participate in the forthcoming MTN champs Season two tournament scheduled to take place in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The Chief Marketing Officer of ...
Read More »NFF Appoints Finidi George As New Super Eagles Head Coach
The Board of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), on Monday, announced the appointment of a former Nigerian ace winger Finidi George as head coach of the Super Eagles. George, who spent 20 months as assistant to José Santos Peseiro before the ...
Read More »Obaseki Announces N70,000 Minimum Wage For Edo Workers
The governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has approved a new N70,000 minimum wage for the state’s civil servants. He announced this while commissioning Edo state’s new Labour House on Monday, April 29. Obaseki said the much anticipated minimum ...
Read More »Monitor N200bn Intervention Fund For MSMSEs, Manufacturers, Ex-Lawmaker Urges Tinubu
A former lawmaker in Osun state, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye has urged President Bola Tinubu, to monitor the disbursement of the N200 billion presidential Intervention Fund recently launched for Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises and manufacturers in the country. The lawmaker, who ...
Read More »Tinubu Secures $600m Maersk Investment For Nigerian Ports In Saudi
President Bola Tinubu has secured an investment of $600 million from Danish shipping and logistics company, A.P Moller-Maersk, to expand existing port infrastructure to accommodate more container shipping services in Nigerian ports. Chairman of A.P Moller-Maersk, Mr. Robert Maersk Uggla, ...
Read More »Lagos-Calabar Road: Gov’t Plans Realignment, Flyovers To Connect Lekki Port, Dangote Refinery
…Says more structures along gazetted right-of-way to be demolished The Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, has assured that the Lagos-Calabar coastal road project will be constructed to join a parallel alignment with the road connecting to the Lekki Deep ...
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