JAMB: 2024 UTME Results Not Available In Paper Format, Website

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results are unavailable in any paper format. JAMB made this known via a statement issued by its spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The examination body announced the release of the 2024 UTME results on Monday, April 29. Benjamin, however, noted that unlike 2023, the 2024 UTME results, at the moment, cannot be checked via JAMB’s website. He stated: “JAMB, once again, wishes to state clearly that the only way to check…

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Police Who Filmed Wife Having Sex With Superior Found Guilty Of Stalking

ADEOLA YUSUF

An obsessed former police officer who caught his wife having sex with a married colleague in a car park has narrowly avoided jail after being convicted of stalking. Gavin Harper, 45, found Stephanie Glynn, 40, and her lover Andrew McLullich, 42, outside the hardware store in Birkenhead, Merseyside, UK on February 16, 2021, after secretly placing a tracker on his wife’s car. He slowly crept up to the vehicle and used his mobile phone to record the lovers, who were naked from the waist down, before allegedly shouting: ‘I’ve got…

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Mother Of Four Hacked To Death By Neighbour, Son

ADEOLA YUSUF

A mother of four, Mrs Nata Igbinovia, was hacked to death by her neighbour and his son while trying to intervene in a fight. The incident occurred on Saturday at Okpagha-Ewuare, a community on the outskirts of Benin City, Edo State. Patience, the deceased’s daughter, said the incident occurred when her mother intervened in a dispute between her cousin and the neighbours. Speaking to newsmen, Patience said the suspects resorted to using a knife and an axe to take her life. “As he went to bring the small dagger, the…

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86 Rooms Where Tenants Paid N250,000 A Year Found Under Lagos Bridge

ADEOLA YUSUF

Lagos State’s Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, on Wednesday said the government discovered 86 partitioned rooms, sized 10×10 and 12×10, under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, on Lagos Island. Tenants are said to be paying N250,000 per annum for the makeshift apartment under the bridge. Wahab shared this information via a post on X.com on Wednesday, along with videos. He added that the enforcement team of Lagos State’s Ministry of Environment and Water Resources had successfully removed all structures, including a container utilised for various illegal activities,…

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Banks Close 2m Accounts Over BVN, NIN, Others

ADEOLA YUSUF

Commercial banks in Nigeria closed 2.021 million bank accounts in the first quarter of 2024, Q1’24, to clean their books of questionable accounts and comply with regulatory orders on the linkage of bank accounts to the National Identity Number, NIN. This is contained in a report by the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System, NIBSS, which also indicated that the number of inactive bank accounts grew month-on-month, MoM, by four million or 2.0 per cent to 19.7 million in March 2024 from 19.3 million in the previous month, February. A bank account…

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Sanwo-Olu Spent N1bn To Hire Helicopters In One Month – Rhodes-Vivour

ADEOLA YUSUF

The 2023 governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has accused the State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, of spending over Nibn on helicopter service in one month. Rhodes-Vivour said Sanwo-Olu spent N1,039,875,000 on helicopter charter service in April 2022. He stated this in a post shared on his X handle on Tuesday. He added that the governor spent N512,000,000 on the same service in July and August 2023. “In April 2022 alone, the Lagos state government spent N1,039,875,000 on helicopter charter service for Mr. Governor’s regular traveling.…

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May 1: Uphold College’s Vision, YABATECH Rector Felicitates Staff

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Rector of Yaba College of Technology, Dr. Ibraheem Abdul, has felicitated with members of staff on the occasion of the Workers’ Day, advising them to continue to “uphold the core values, vision and mission of the college and present administration’s strategic plan of consolidating on the past and shaping its future.” In his workers day message, Rector of the 77-year old polytechnic lauded the support of the members of staff since he assumed office. He said, “It is my joy to felicitate and rejoice with the entire work force of…

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Emeritus Professor, Ayo Banjo, Is 90

ADEOLA YUSUF

▪️ Hwre is Sanya Adejokun’s neatly woven emotional tribute for the latest nonagenarian in town   This is an example of a leader and father figure to students. As a student of Linguistics in the University of Ibadan, Professor Ayo Banjo was already Vice Chancellor of the institution and so, he never taught me (or did he once? I am not too sure). His office in the department was always under lock and key but the name plate was there proclaiming his presence. As I read President Bola Tinubu’s congratulatory…

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EKEDC Champions Health, Sports Integration, Headlines Ikoyi Club’38 Tennis Week

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has reaffirmed its dedication to backing health and wellness as well as sports development programs, showcased during the Tennis Tournament hosted at lkoyi Club 1938. Mrs Rekhiat Momoh, Acting Chief Executive Officer of EKEDC, made this remark at the closing ceremony of the EKEDC Tennis Tournament recently held at Ikoyi Club 1938. It was gathered that the leading utility firm organised the week-long EKEDC Tennis Tournament at lIkoyi Club 1938, as part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives. The week-long tournament, according to the…

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Major Marketers Supply 300m Litres, Plot End To Fuel Queues Nationwide

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Major Energies Marketers Association of Nigeria (MEMAN) has revealed that the association’s members in Apapa and other locations in Lagos are currently taking delivery of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) from 8 vessels this week, totaling over 300 million liters – well above the normal levels. He has emphatically assured that the ongoing fuel scarcity and queues in Nigeria will not last more than two weeks, contrary to speculations, and has assured the public that there is an adequate supply of the product. Mr. Huub Stokman, the Chairman of MEMAN, speaks during…

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