THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday listed conditions for screening of exceptional Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates who are still under the age of 16 years, for the 2025/2026 admissions. The board said that to qualify for consideration, under-16 candidates must have a minimum UTME score of 320 out of 400 […]
BARELY 48 hours after increasing its pump price, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has slashed the cost of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) at its retail stations to ₦900 per litre, down from ₦955 per litre. Findings on Wednesday revealed that NNPCL outlets at the Kubwa expressway and other locations in Abuja had already adjusted […]
BARRING last-minute changes, the House of Representatives is expected to hold the National Public Hearing in September 2025, during which various stakeholders across the country are expected to make inputs into various proposed thematic areas. Tribune Online gathered that the national public hearing, which was earlier scheduled for 21st July 2025, was postponed due to […]
FORMER Minister of Information, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has warned that Nigeria risks disintegration before the 2027 general elections if urgent steps are not taken to restructure the country. Nwodo, also a former president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, stated that the current political structure has failed to address Nigeria’s complex challenges and must be reformed before […]
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, said its investigations have revealed that many abandoned estates in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, are owned by civil servants. Noting that some of the estates have been abandoned for over 10 years, the anti-graft agency, through its Chairman, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, said it has […]
NO fewer than 24,000 Nigerians have been declared missing by their families over the last 10 years, according to data provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). María Toscano, an ICRC Protection of Family Links Team Leader, who made this known at a media workshop in Maiduguri, said the international body was […]
Lawyer drags EFCC to AGF over “double jeopardy” arrest AN Abuja-based lawyer, Khadijah Bayern, has petitioned the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) over what she described as “double jeopardy” and intimidation following the re-arrest of her clients by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the same matter already being handled by the […]
THE West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has temporarily shut down its result check portal. The shutdown of the result checker portal was due to technical issues that will be resolved within the next 24 hours. The Head of Public Affairs unit of WAEC Nigeria, Mrs. Moyosola Adesina, revealed this in a statement on Wednesday evening. […]
By JACINTA NWACHUKWU AFRICA Development Bank (AfDB) and its partners have mobilised 2.2 billion dollars (about ₦3.4 trillion) to implement special agro-industrial processing zones in Nigeria. Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the outgoing President of AfDB disclosed this in a paper presented at the 2025 Standard Chartered Bank Africa Summit recently held in Lagos. In a copy […]
THE National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and its counterparts in Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu states said they have set up machineries to respond to the impending floods in the zone. Reports stated that the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMET) and Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency have issued fresh warnings about possible flooding in about 19 states in […]