The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it would use the National Identity Number issued by the National Identity Management Commission for the conduct of 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, stated this when the Director of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Mr Dasuki Arabi, visited him at the […]

Four men  believed to be security officials  have allegedly whisked  the National Chairman of Action Alliance, Kenneth Udeze, away. Udeze was reportedly forced into a Toyota Forerunner SUV on Friday morning and driven away to an unknown location, his wife, Genevieve informed Saturday PUNCH over the telephone. The distraught woman  said  the men  showed her husband an […]

The Federal Government has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service to ensure strict implementation of the new Border Management Strategy which was unveiled in Lagos on Friday. The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, gave the directive while declaring open the Comptroller-General Management Retreat, 2019 and inauguration of the Border Management Strategy document. He said that […]

The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday arrested Oyediran Joseph, said to be one of the “most wanted” suspected Internet fraudsters by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States. EFCC said the 36-year-old suspect was arrested in Ilorin, Kwara State, recently. The Zonal Head of the commission, […]

The Police Service Commission  is locked in a battle with  the Nigeria Police Force over who has the authority   to  recruit   10,000 constables approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. It was learnt  that the development had forced the PSC to suspend the exercise indefinitely. Spokesman for the  commission, Ikechukwu Ani, in a statement on Friday  confirmed […]

The National Youth Service Corps has disclosed that it has nabbed 50 unqualified graduates who attempted to register in the Batch B Stream II exercise with fake certificates at the orientation camps across the country. The NYSC confirmed on Friday that the fake graduates, from various tertiary institutions, had been handed over to the police […]

An Ilorin, Kwara State lawyer Olarewaju Aluko and his client, Taiye Na’Allah, yesterday sued the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) at a Kwara State High Court for alleged defamation of character. The duo are seeking redress and asking for N20 million damages from the commission. The Ilorin Zonal office of the commission, on Wednesday, accused […]

All Progressives Congress (APC) national stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has commiserated with the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide, Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, on the death of his mother, Mama Janet Olukoya. She was 95. In a condolence letter yesterday to Pastor Olukoya, Asiwaju Tinubu urged the General Overseer and […]

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday discharged and acquitted former President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide on Domestic Affairs, Dr Waripamo Owei-Dudafa, of alleged N1.6 billion money laundering charge. In a 190-page judgment, Justice Mohammed Idris held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) failed to prove any of the 22 counts against Owei-Dudafa […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held investment talks with top officials of Japan Bank for International Cooperation, and Toyota Group, at the margins of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7), holding in Yokohama, Japan. Led by its Deputy Governor, Mr Nobumitsu Hayashi, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation indicated its interest […]