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The Head of Nigeria National Office,  West African Examination Council, WAEC, Mr Patrick Areghan has announced that the 2022 West  African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, will be conducted in May/June. Recall that in recent times, WAEC conducted WASSCE between August and October. Mr Areghan disclosed the revert back to the previous duration of the conduct of WASSCE,  on Monday …

A lawyer, who represented #EndSARS protesters at the Lagos judicial panel, Adeshina Ogunlana, has called for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State following the report of the panel. Mr Ogunlana made the demand at a press conference in Ikeja, Lagos, after the submission of the report to Governor Sanwo-Olu. He also called for the immediate …

All roads lead to Shehu Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, on Tuesday, where the new edition of ‘The Sokoto Caliphate,’ a book authored by Murray Last and published by Premium Times Books will be launched. Tuesday’s event will be chaired by the Emir of Zazzau, Ahmed Nuhu Bamali, while the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, will be the special guest of honour …

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has said terrorism in the West Africa is caused by weak governance, poverty, youth unemployment and human rights abuses. The Commission also disclosed that Boko Haram attacks in the Lake Chad Basin alone in the last 10 years have led to more Han 30,000 deaths, with terrorism displacing over three million …

The West African Examination Council revealed on Monday that 81.7 per cent of students who sat for the Senior Secondary Schools Certificate Examination in 2021 had credits in five subjects including Maths and English. Giving a breakdown of this year’s examination, WAEC Head of National Office, Patrick Areghan, said a total of 1,573,849 candidates registered for the examination from the …

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the Delta variant continues to be the dominant strain of Coronavirus in the country. The NCDC Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, made this known at the bi-weekly national briefing on COVID-19, in Abuja on Monday. Adetifa, represented by the Head of Risk Communication, Dr Yahaya Disu, said that the Delta variant overwhelmingly dominated …

The Vigilante Group of Nigeria has appealed to the President, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to give his assent to the bill establishing the group. This according to the group would help provide community policing, maintenance of law and order, and community service for Nigerians Vigilante Group of Nigeria The group said when signed into law, the document would mainstream …

The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and some other Nigerians are silently in support of Nigeria president of Igbo extraction 2023 project. Speaking to journalists yesterday in Abuja, Okechukwu appealed to Buhari to honour elder statesman Chief Mbazulike Amechi with …

The Christian Association of Nigeria has knocked the United States for removing Nigeria from its 2021 list of religious violators, saying that Christians are still being persecuted by terrorist groups and other Islamic associations in the country. The apex Christian organisation said that it is at a loss on the data or statistics used by the US government in arriving …

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has disclosed that the National Assembly will pass the 2022 Appropriation Bill before Christmas. Lawan made the disclosure on Friday night, while receiving the New Telegraph’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Politics, alongside other Nigerians who had distinguished themselves in public service and the private sector.ADVERTISING “ This is my fourth term in the Senate; when we …