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The Federal Government has directed the West African Examinations Council and the National Examinations Council to adopt full Computer-Based Testing for all their examinations by 2026. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this during the monitoring of the ongoing exams alongside JAMB officials, in Bwari on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports…
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Ibok-Ete Ibas, the sole administrator of Rivers, on Thursday failed to appear before the house of representatives ad hoc committee overseeing the emergency rule in the state. On April 15, Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house, inaugurated the 21-member committee to ensure transparent governance and the rule of law in the south-south state. A day…
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The coordinator of Iwa Star Women Political Group in Kwara, Zainab Bolajoko Balogun PhD. has sent congratulatory and felicitations to the Chairman Kwara State Traditional Rulers Council, the Emir of Ilorin, Mai Martaba, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari CFR, on the occasion of his 85th birthday. In a congratulatory message made available to newsmen in Ilorin, Dr…
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Pope Francis looked visibly drained when he drove around St Peter’s Square in his popemobile on Easter Sunday, cheered by a rapt crowd in what became his final public appearance. Aged 88 and weakened by five weeks battling double pneumonia in hospital, some in the Vatican suspect the head of the Catholic Church knew that…
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A civil society group, Save Democracy Vanguard, has petitioned the United Nations to intervene urgently in the matters of Emergency Rule in Rivers State to avert what it described as a collapse of democracy in Nigeria. In a letter addressed to the UN Secretary General and signed by its Executive Director, Ali Mohammed Ali, the…
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The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has reduced the price of petrol at its gantry to N865 per litre. According to sources, the refinery reduced the price of the product sold to oil marketers by N15 — from the N880 per litre sold by the facility on Wednesday. Anthony Chiejina, group chief of corporate communications, Dangote refinery,…
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Niger’s junta has adopted Hausa as the national language in the place of French in a further break from Paris, its former colonial master. Since overthrowing civilian president Mohamed Bazoum in July 2023, Niger’s military rulers have severed relations with France, kicking out French soldiers and renaming streets and monuments that bore French names. “The…
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Senate President Godswill Akpabio has refuted Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s accusation that he collaborated with former Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello in a plot to assassinate her. Akpoti-Uduaghan publicly made this claim during a welcome event with her supporters. However, Akpabio, through his spokesperson Eseme Eyibo, has labeled the allegation as untrue and intentionally harmful. “This outrageous…
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Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Federal High Court has prohibited all parties involved in the lawsuit brought by suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against Senate President Godswill Akpabio and others from speaking to the press about the case. This order was issued on Friday after Akpabio’s lawyer, Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN), complained that Akpoti-Uduaghan was giving…
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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced a major expansion of the military operation in Gaza on Wednesday and said large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to the security zones of Israel. He said in a statement that there would be a large-scale evacuation of the population from fighting areas. He called…