JAMB assures of UTME results release, apologises for delay
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has apologised for the delay in releasing results of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted on Friday, April 17, 2026.
ADC: Rival camps dig in as survival hangs on Supreme Court verdict
The leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has escalated into a complex legal and political standoff, with three rival factions advancing competing constitutional claims …
N1bn Makinde impeachment plot: Speaker under siege, Olubadan palace targeted
By Adeola Badru Oyo State last week teetered on the brink of a full-blown political crisis, as a combustible mix of impeachment plots, alleged billion-naira inducements, royal intrigue and intra-party rivalry converged in a drama that has shaken the foundations of power in Ibadan, the state capital. At the centre of the storm: Governor Seyi Makinde, Speaker […]
More than Jilli horror: 500 feared killed in 19 ‘accidental’ airstrikes in nine years
When a Nigerian military jet struck a crowded camp for displaced persons in Rann, Borno State, in January 2017, officials called it a mistake.
Abducted JAMB candidates, others: Captors demand N9m for each captive, father cries
The father of two victims abducted Wednesday from a Benue Links bus en route Otukpo has cried out over ransom demands by their captors, who he said are insisting on N9 million for each of his kidnapped children.
Lagos doctors protest police harassment, warn of health crisis
Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Lagos State chapter, and the Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners, ANPMP, on Saturday in Lagos staged a rare joint protest, decrying what they described as “persistent harassment, intimidation and unlawful arrests” by government agencies, particularly the police.
Crackdown: 28 convictions, 586 arrests as Tantita transforms enforcement against crude oil theft—Report
In a report before the joint committee on petroleum resources of the Senate and House of Reps, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited documented a comprehensive legal crackdown…
Why lenders move to block Amukpe-Escravos pipeline sale
By Sufuyan Ojeifo An independent journalist takes a look at the renewed push by lenders to halt the revival of a previously terminated pipeline transaction and what it signals for valuation discipline and reform credibility in Nigeria’s oil sector._ A group of lenders led by Sterling Bank is pushing to stop the revival of a […]
Troops rescue 13 abducted Benue bus passengers
Troops of the Nigerian Army have rescued 13 passengers abducted from a Benue Links commercial bus along the Makurdi–Otukpo road on Wednesday.
MC Barms finds scale, demand in four years in events industry
Nigeria’s expanding events industry is driving increased demand for professional masters of ceremonies, with practitioners handling a growing number of engagements annually as weddings, corporate functions and political gatherings become more elaborate.
Okuokpellagbe: Silence, Service and More Gains for Okpella Community
By EMAMEH GABRIEL The Ethiopian novelist Haddis Alemayehu, writing in the early twentieth century, observed that “a river that carves a canyon does so not by shouting at the stone but by flowing past it every single day.” The Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor similarly reminded us that “the drummer who announces his own arrival is […]
