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FG releases results of 2022 common entrance examination
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has released the 2022 results of the National Common Entrance Examination held on May 7 into the 104 unity colleges across the country. Adamu, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mr David Adejo, in Abuja, on Monday, said one Ajidapa Mariam, an indigene of Sokoto State got the highest…
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Buhari receives Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Biodun Oyebanji
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received Ekiti State Governor-elect, Biodun Oyebanji in company of Jigawa State Governor, Abubakar Badaru, APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, Chief of Staff Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Campaign DG & Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, Minister of Industry, Trade & Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo and SSA to the President (Domestic) Sarki…
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Sanwo-Olu orders probe of attack on WesternPost’s reporter, others
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered an investigation into the attack on WesternPost reporter, Adeola Ogunrinde and other journalists in the Government House Press Crew bus. This was disclosed in a statement by the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso. WesternPost had reported that Ogunrinde and other journalists were attacked by hoodlums on Sunday on their…
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Court stops INEC from ending voter registration June 30
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from stopping the continuous voter registration on June 30. The interim injunction barring INEC from ending the CVR on June 30 was by Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon on Monday after hearing an argument on motion exparte by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project. SERAP had approached the court…
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JKF: No longer ‘the apprentice’, By Olawale Olaleye
Last Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State, has stoked some interrogations on the political artery of the state, with ideology at the centre of it all. There’s also been interesting reports and opinions about the fact that the feat of Saturday had broken 23 years succession jinx in the state. But a few people have equally been stifled by the…
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Not everything about Tinubu is money, By Kunle Awosiyan
If you think Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s emergence as the presidential standard bearer of the APC has come with money, you are very far from the truth. Of course, money is a critical factor on this journey, BAT is living more on his goodwill than throwing money around as some of his haters are alleging. I once visited an office at…
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Orubebe announces resignation from PDP
Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Orubebe announced his resignation in a letter he wrote to PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu on Monday, stating it was with immediate effect. He gave as one of the reasons for leaving the PDP as the decision of the party to throw…
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Kaduna govt sacks NUT president, 2,357 teachers – Official
The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (KADSUBEB) says it has dismissed 2,357 teachers who failed the recently conducted competency test. Its spokesperson, Hauwa Mohammed, in a statement on Sunday in Kaduna, said the board conducted a competency test for over 30,000 teachers in December 2021. She said that 2,192 primary school teachers, including the National President of the Nigeria…
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Reports Kwankwaso can deputise for Peter Obi false, says NNPP
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has denied as false, reports that its Presidential Candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso can be the vice presidential candidate for Labour Party’s Peter Obi in the 2023 presidential elections. NNPP’s National Publicity Secretary, Dr Agbo Major in a statement on Sunday, said the report was a figment of the writer’s imagination. “NNPP has never at any…
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Hoodlums injure WesternPost reporter during attack on Sanwo-Olu’s press crew bus
A reporter with WesternPost, Adeola Ogunrinde, was on Sunday injured when hoodlums attacked the press crew bus of the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The bus was attacked by hoodlums after presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu visited the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu. WesternPost had reported that Tinubu was visiting Lagos for the first…
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