THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has debunked reports of error in the scoring of candidates in the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board warned the public, especially candidates of the last UTME to be wary of the guile and other unsavoury activities of fraudsters who were making false claims of errors in the scoring system. Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head, Public Affairs and Protocol of the board, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday. Benjamin said that the board was therefore maintaining for the umpteenth time that the…
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THE University of Abuja Alumni Association, USA Inc., has partnered a U.S.-based independent organisation, King Baudouin Foundation, to mobilise support for its Alma Mater. The North America Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some executives of the association met with the officials of the foundation in New York to discuss areas of support. The Vice Chancellor of University of Abuja, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, also attended the meeting. The President and Founder of the association, Mrs Ekeleoma Chuku, said the motive of establishing the organisation in the U.S. was to galvanise support and to give back to…
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to admit Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to bail. Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, held that since Kanu was earlier granted bail in 2017 and jumped the bail, the court must first determine the real reason he jumped the bail before he reapply for another one. Justice Nyako then dismissed the application for bail. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the court had, on April 8, exonerated the Federal Government on the allegation that the leader of the IPOB was forcibly abducted abroad…
THE Nigerian Army has dismissed the report that some aggrieved personnel wrote an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing the top army officers of corruption and extortion. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, on Tuesday in Abuja. An online report had emerged on Monday that some aggrieved personnel had in an impersonal letter to President Muhammadu Buhari accused top army officers of corruption. Nwachukwu said more worrisome was the insinuation that soldiers had threatened to embark on strike, saying such an action was tantamount to mutiny in the Armed Forces…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has annulled its conference slated to hold in Sokoto State as a result of last Thursday’s lynching of Deborah Yakubu, a year-two student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. The student, alleged to have committed blasphemy, was summarily lynched and her body set ablaze by a mob composed mainly of her school mates who forcibly retrieved her from the college’s security who reportedly tried to save her. The NBA in a statement on Tuesday announced that the event scheduled to hold from Sunday, May 22 to 26, 2022, has been cancelled. The statement,…
SOCIALIST Labour unreservedly and unconditionally condemns the murder of Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a 200 level Home Economics student of the Sokoto State College of Education. Deborah was killed for allegedly blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammed on a WhatsApp group. The perpetrators of this act should be brought to justice. This killing was not spontaneous. The context in which the killing took place is one of neo-liberal economic crisis, poverty, unemployment and the use of religion by elites to divert attention away from the crisis they have created. Uneducated, unemployed youth whose lives have been blighted by poverty and neglect have…
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that it was impossible for some European countries to quickly ditch Russian oil, as the European Union is proposing. EU members are negotiating a proposed oil embargo on Russia over Ukraine, but talks failed this week because of a veto from Hungary, which is heavily dependent on Russian oil imports. “Obviously, some EU states, in whose energy balance the share of Russian hydrocarbons is especially high, will not be able to do this for a long time, to ditch our oil,” Putin said. Speaking at a televised meeting with domestic oil managers and…
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks to the media during a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan May 13, 2022. Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo May 17 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Finland and Sweden joining NATO would probably make “not much difference” as the two countries had long participated in the alliance’s military drills. “Finland and Sweden, as well as other neutral countries, have been participating in NATO military exercises for many years,” Lavrov said. “NATO takes their territory into account…
MORE than 250 Ukrainian fighters surrendered to Russian forces at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol and Kyiv said on Tuesday it had ordered its full garrison to evacuate, bringing an apparent end to the bloodiest battle in Europe for decades. Reuters saw buses leave the steelworks overnight and five of them arrive in the Russian-held town of Novoazovsk, where Moscow said the wounded would be treated. In one, marked with the Latin letter ‘Z’ that symbolises Russia’s assault, wounded men were stacked on stretchers three bunks high. One man was wheeled out, his head tightly wrapped in thick bandages. While…
By Beloved John In several condolence visits and numerous press releases, the Kebbi state government has pledged to fight armed banditry and restore lasting peace to the state. These pledges do not change much for local residents of affected communities, however. Once in 2021, the state governor, Atiku Bagudu had even pledged to lead a search and rescue mission into the forest to secure the release of the Yauri students who had been kidnapped. About one year later, there has been no search team led by the governor and only 56 students have been released with over 65 more still…