Police have arrested three alleged masterminds of the proliferation of fake websites for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board registration, and the falsification of fake JAMB admission letters. Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. JAMB and the Nigeria Police Force had in April warned against the activities of perpetrators using fake websites to scam candidates applying for the UTME. This was as the Nigeria Police Force National Cyber Crime Centre and JAMB announced their partnership to clamp down on phishing websites and scammers. The police and JAMB, at a joint press conference at…
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Agency Report South Africa’s long-standing ruling ANC said on Thursday it has reached an agreement with several other parties to form a coalition government, after failing to win an outright majority in general elections in May. Speaking on the eve of the first sitting of the newly elected parliament, African National Congress Secretary General Fikile Mbalula said the government would “gravitate to the centre”, after leftist parties shunned the deal. “We have reached a breakthrough on the common agreement that we need to work together,” Mbalula told a news conference. The agreement means President Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to be…
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, on Thursday, jailed the pastor of a church in Omuo Ekiti in the Ekiti East Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Pastor Enoch, for life for raping a minor. The minor, said to be the daughter of one of the church members, was raped by the pastor during one of her visits to the house of the cleric. The young girl was said to have been going regularly to the church’s mission house to help the pastor’s wife with house chores and also to assist their young children in their school…
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, says the Gross Domestic Product of Lagos, in the last five years under his administration, had risen by almost 50 per cent and surpassed the GDPs of over 40 African countries. He said this development could be linked to the unending efforts by his administration to improve the Ease of Doing Business and the decision to leverage the technology and entrepreneurial abilities of its population for economic activities. Sanwo-Olu said Lagos had advanced from being a state in deficit during the military to becoming a hub for investment and technological advancements. The Governor stated this…
Troops of the Nigerian military have continued raids on the hideouts and the training camps of outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra terrorists and its Eastern Security Network affiliate. The operation is not unconnected with last month’s killing of five soldiers in the South East zone of the country while enforcing sit-at-home. Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj Gen Edward Buba, who addressed newsmen at Defence Headquarters, Abuja, on Thursday, said no fewer than 25 suspected members of the proscribed organisation have been arrested. Buba explained that the troops attached to “Operation Udo Ka” cleared and destroyed several camps of the terrorists…
Federal High Court in Abuja has granted additional five days of bail to suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari, over his mother’s death. Kyari, who had been remanded in jail for 27 months over drug-related offences, was in May granted temporary 14-day bail on compassionate grounds to mourn his deceased mother. But on Thursday, his lawyer pleaded with the court to approve his fresh motion dated June 11, 2024, for a five-day extension of the bail till June 19 when the main application for his bail would be determined. He said Kyari had not done anything to interfere with…
The Ogun State Government has emphasised the need to embrace maintenance culture of critical state infrastructure to ensure citizens get value for their tax. Speaking at the revalidation of the States Rural Access And Agricultural Marketing Project (OG-RAAMP), of the markets to be intervened at the Oke-Mosan Governor’s Office, on Thursday, the Acting Project Coordinator, Engr. Waheed Adejumo said the treatment of government intervention project as “nobody’s business is not helpful to neither the governed nor the government ” His advisory came when the Consultant to the RAAMP on physical improvement of markets across the three senatorial districts in the…
Civil rights activist and former Kaduna Central Senator, Comrade Shehu Sani has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to pardon the EndSARS protesters still languishing in detention. Sani made this appeal while speaking at a dinner in Abuja to mark the 2024 Democracy Day on Wednesday. In October 2020, many Nigerian youths protested across the country against the excesses of the now-disbanded special anti-robbery squad (SARS) unit of the police. During the nationwide protests, many youths who were arrested in cities such as Lagos, Rivers, and Ibadan have remained in detention. Sani in his reaction to the development, said the Nigerian…
…urges President to restructure Nigeria, release Nnamdi Kanu immediately Samuel Adesola, Abuja Nationalist and Leader of the Ijaw nation, Chief Edwin Clark, on Thursday, asked President Bola Tinubu to urgently implement the report of the 2014 National Conference. The elder statesman said these in a letter he wrote to the President, which he described as his message to Nigerians having clocked 97 years on May 25. Clark said that now that the elections are over, Tinubu must immediately restructure Nigeria if the country must remain one as that will also reintegrate the Igbo that have been marginalized in the scheme…
Aliko Dangote has revealed that local and foreign mafia tried several times to sabotage his $19 billion refinery from coming to life. Dangote made this revelation while speaking at the Afreximbank annual meetings (AAN) and AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum in Nassau, The Bahamas, on Wednesday. Dangote, Africa’s richest man, said he had repaid about $2.4 billion of the $5.5 billion borrowed to build the refinery. Sabotage According to him, several entities did everything to sabotage the 650,000 barrels per day facility. Dangote said he was aware that resistance would always exist, but he did not anticipate it being so…