Day: May 9, 2025

JAMB Releases 2025 UTME Results, Withholds 39,834

Ganiyu Amodu

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially released the results of the 1.951, 811 candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) while withholding 39,834 results. This is even as it revealed that 80 suspects are currently under interrogation for examination fraud as Anambra State tops with 14 suspects, Lagos, 9, Delta, 8, Kano, 7, Kaduna and Rivers 6 each. Ebonyi and Enugu followed with 5 each, Imo and Ondo, 3 each, Nasarawa, Abia, Plateau , 2 each while the other 8 states had 1…

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Lekan Otufodunrin; An Inspirational Journalist @61, By Qasim Akinreti

Abibat Babalola

It is another memorable day for a colleague, media trainer,entrepreneur, and activist, Elder Lekan Otufodunrin, celebrating 61 years’ birthday 🎂 Fair in complexion and kind hearted ,Lekan as fondly called has gone through the mill of Journalism profession, Reporter, Features writer, News Editor, Online Editor, devouted media union member, media mentor and media trainer per excellon. I knew Lekan as a Reporter with the Punch newspapers and he played his active role in the NUJ Lagos state Council creditably and retired voluntarily from the Nation Newspapers as Online Editor, to…

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Economic Reforms Not To Punish Nigerians, But To Avert Collapse, Says Tinubu

Abibat Babalola

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday stated that his administration inherited a “near-insolvent” treasury and a chaotic economic structure upon assuming office in 2023, but has since implemented bold and painful reforms that are beginning to yield results. Speaking during a state visit and grand reception in Awka, the Anambra State capital, Tinubu said the financial state of the nation was dire when he took over, citing massive public debts, “unsustainable multiple subsidies”, and an unstable foreign exchange regime. “We met near-insolvent public finance, a decades-old monster of unsustainable multiple subsidies,…

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Tinubu Nominates Usoro Akpabio As SSDC MD, Nwuche As Chairman

Abibat Babalola

President Bola Tinubu has nominated Madam Usoro Offiong Akpabio, a prominent politician and strategist from Akwa Ibom State, as the Managing Director of the newly established South South Development Commission (SSDC). Also nominated is former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chibudom Nwuche from Rivers State, who will serve as Chairman of the Commission. READ ALSO: Akpabio To Peter Obi: Resolve Issues In Your Small Party Before Aspiring To Be President Robert Francis Announced As New Catholic Leader NCDMB Promotes Obinna Ezeobi PhD Ag. GM Corporate Communication ’52 Years…

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Akpabio To Peter Obi: Resolve Issues In Your Small Party Before Aspiring To Be President

Abibat Babalola

The Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has responded to Peter Obi, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), over his recent comments that the “labour of our heroes past is all in vain’. Akpabio advised Obi to first resolve the internal issues in his “small party” before aiming for the presidency of Nigeria. Akpabio’s remarks came on Thursday during the valedictory session in honor of the late former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark. READ ALSO: NCDMB Promotes Obinna Ezeobi PhD Ag. GM Corporate…

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