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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board is currently investigating fresh cases of fraud totalling N83m uncovered in its state offices in Kano, Edo, Kogi, Gombe and Plateau, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondent gathered on Friday that while the board was investigating N31m misappropriated revenue in Edo and N20m in Kano, it was quizzing officials in Plateau and Gombe over …

By Alltimepost.com Benin Monarch, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II has said if corruption is not tackled and the economy improved, it would be difficult to fight human trafficking. Oba Ewuare II therefore, called on the state and federal governments of Nigeria to fight corruption, provide job, improve the economy and make life meaningful for the people in order …

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, blamed government’s inability to deliver on its promises on socio-political inequality, weak justice system, absence of rule of law and lack of state capacity to maintain law and order. He also expressed frustrations at the inability of anti-graft agencies to secure convictions for the many suspects brought before the courts for corruption due …

By MIKE OSAROGIAGBON BENIN CITY – Barely a week after a policeman reportedly killed a taxi driver in Benin city, a trigger-happy Nigerian soldier has allegedly shot and killed a vigilante and freed some herdsmen arrested for alleged armed robbery in Obadolovbiyeyi village in Ikpoba-Okha local government area of Edo State. Sources hinted that a local vigilante group had yesterday …

Cyril Ramaphosa was confirmed Thursday as South Africa’s new President hours after scandal-plagued leader Jacob Zuma resigned. Ramaphosa, 65, the leader of the ruling African National Congress party since December, was the only candidate nominated during a session of the South African Parliament. Some lawmakers in the National Assembly in Cape Town greeted the announcement on Ramaphosa, though members of …

President Jacob Zuma has resigned as head of state. We look back at his time in the party and as president of the country. Zuma, who was president of the African National Congress from December 2007 to December 2017, joined the party at a tender age of 16 in 1959. He became a member of the armed wing of the …

Tragedy struck in Obadolovbiyeyi community in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State when a vigilante, Efe Igbnovia, was shot dead by some soldiers. It was gathered that a local vigilance group had in the early hours of Wednesday arrested some suspected herdsmen for alleged armed robbery on the Benin-Abraka Expressway. Igbinovia was said to have been asked to …

Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, has resigned after days of defying orders from the ruling African National Congress to leave office and on the eve of a no-confidence vote in parliament. In a televised address to the nation late on Wednesday, the 75-year-old said he was a disciplined member of the ANC, to which he had dedicated his …

The University of Benin authorities may have decided to recall the five student leaders earlier suspended for alleged misconduct. Our correspondent gathered that after a meeting held on Monday the management of the university directed the affected students to return to school. The affected students, comprising some members of the Students Union Government, had been rusticated by the Senate of …

The Trump administration is attempting to speed up or even sweep away various environmental reviews in its plan to fix America’s crumbling infrastructure and construct a wall along the border with Mexico. The White House’s infrastructure plan targets what it calls “inefficiencies” in the approval of roads, bridges, airports and other projects. It proposes a 21-month limit for environmental reviews …