President Bola Tinubu has congratulated His Holiness Leo XIV on his election as the Bishop of Rome and the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. According to the President, he rejoices warmly with the leadership and congregants of the Catholic Church in Nigeria on the historic election of the new Pontiff, whose message of faith and hope already resonates across the globe, with a reassurance from the scriptures of […]
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has petitioned the Accountant General of the Federation regarding a concerning trend of delays in the payment of its members’ monthly salaries. It will be recalled that SSANU began experiencing these delays following the migration of staff data to the Government Integrated Financial and Management Information System, GIFMIS platform. In its petition, SSANU called for urgent intervention to forestall a breakdown of […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released a statistical breakdown of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), revealing that over 1.5 million of the 1.95 million candidates scored below 200/400. In a post on its official X, JAMB highlighted that a total of 1,955,069 candidates sat for the examination, and of this number, a significant 1,534,654 candidates—representing 78.5%—scored below the 200 mark. A breakdown of the […]
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted haziness and thunderstorms from Tuesday to Thursday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Monday in Abuja envisaged slight dust haze over parts of Katsina and Kano states during the forecast period on Tuesday According to the agency, the thunderstorms are anticipated over parts of Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Edo, Abia, Imo, Bayelsa, Lagos, Delta, Rivers, Cross River and Akwa Ibom […]
The federal government has approved a dual certification programme for federal colleges of education across the country, enabling them to offer both NCE and Bachelor’s degrees. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, who disclosed this on his official X handle, said the programme will commence in the September 2025 academic year. He explained that the government’s action was intended to strengthen Nigeria’s higher education system and graduate employability. The […]
The Oyo State Government has announced a temporary closure on Elewure junction/Sango road in Ibadan. A statement by the Commissioner for Public Works and Transport, Prof. Dahud Sangodoyin, said the closure will take place from 10:00 p.m. on Friday, May 2, 2025, till 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 3, 2025. He said the move is to facilitate the installation of a new level crossing on the Sango rail line, as […]
The Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square has convicted and sentenced a BRT driver, Andrew Ominikoron, to death for the murder of a 22-year-old fashion designer, Bamise Ayanwola. In a judgment that lasted over two and half hours, Justice Serifat Sonaike held that the prosecution, the Lagos State Government, successfully proved beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the offence. Ominikoron faced a five-count charge including murder, […]
