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The House of Representatives has urged the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stay any punitive actions against Joy Mmesoma Ejikeme over the alleged falsification of her JAMB score. This followed the adoption of a motion by Awaji-Inombek Abiante (PDP-Bayelsa) at plenary in Abuja on Wednesday. Miss Ejikeme had claimed to have scored 362 against 249, which the board …

…Vows not to abandon Nigerians to their fate The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said the recent hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, commonly known as petrol, and other perceived anti-poor policies were weapons of war against Nigerian workers and masses. According to NLC, impoverishing workers and pushing millions more into hellish living does not, in …

• Essential medicine scarce, out of stock• Hospitals, practitioners apprehensive Nigerians may have begun to feel the inflationary impact of floating of the Naira as well as subsidy removal as prices of essential drugs and cost of care in the health sector have spiked lately, much to the discomfort of care seekers and practitioners. Findings, yesterday, showed that some of …

Tinubu meets Adamu, Omisore Tempers flared yesterday on the floor of the senate as lawmakers in the camp of the Senate President,  Godswill Akpabio, clashed over a stepped down motion bordering on the disbursement of N500 billion loan. The crisis pitted lawmakers that benefitted from the recent announcement of principal officers by Akpabio, against the losers. On Tuesday, Akpabio had released the …

MINSK, Belarus — Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is in St. Petersburg and his Wagner troops have remained at the camps where they had stayed before a short-lived mutiny against Moscow, the president of Belarus said Thursday. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with foreign correspondents, in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Belarusian President Alexander …

Power consumers, on Wednesday, kicked against the export of about N23.13bn worth of electricity from Nigeria to some neighbouring countries in 2022 despite the widespread darkness witnessed in many Nigerian communities. The latest data on the remittances by international customers, obtained from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission in Abuja, showed that Nigeria continued its export of electricity to the Republics …

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says that 14 states and 31 communities may witness heavy rainfall that may lead to flooding from July 4 – 8 across the country.This is contained in a statement signed by Ibrahim Farinloye, territorial coordinator, NEMA, Lagos Territorial Office. Mr Farinloye urged relevant stakeholders within the states concerned to take precautionary measures to forestall …

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, says Nigerian Army under his watch will stamp out oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the country’s Niger Delta region. Lagbaja gave this assurance during an interactive session with media executives on Wednesday in Ibadan as part of activities marking the 2023 Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL). “The Army will focus …

Taranto also told followers on his YouTube live stream that he was looking to get a “good angle on a shot,” prosecutors said. A federal defender representing Taranto did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment. But in a motion seeking to have him released pending trial, the lawyer wrote that Taranto was not a flight risk, had a …

President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, closed the defence of their February 25 election victory with the evidence of the Senate Majority Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, to deflate allegations and claims contained in the petitions file by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as Mr. Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP). Before his testimony …