The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), during its policy meeting held on July 21, pegged the minimum cut-off score for admission into the country’s universities at 140 for the 2022/2023 academic session. It put that of Polytechnics at 120, and Colleges of Education at 100. Two years back, it had approved 160 as cut-off mark for 2020/2021 university admissions. The board also approved 120 as cut-off marks for Polytechnic and 100 for the school of Education and Innovative institutions. Last year, it announced 140 as the cut-off mark for all federal, state, and private Universities; 100 for polytechnics; and…
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Police in Enugu state on Sunday appealed to parents or relatives of a girl found wandering on Enugu-Nsukka Road, to show up and claim the child. Eleven-year-old Chidimma Oforndukwe was found at Ugwogo-Nike within Enugu East local government area axis of the road. Police spokesman in Enugu State, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, stated that a Samaritan found Chidimma wandering about on July 18 and took her to Unity Police Division, Ibagwa-Nike near Enugu. “She gave her parent’s name as Mr Anthony Ezeakor and Mrs Nnenna Oforndukwe respectively; and her place of origin as Oha-Ndiagu community in Ezeagu local government area of…
The governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Kaduna state, Sen. Suleiman Hunkuyi has pledged to reinstate traditional rulers sacked by the current government if he wins election. The Nasir El-Rufai’s administration sacked 313 district heads and 4,453 village heads in June 2017 as part of restructuring of traditional chiefdoms in the state. Part of the restructuring was to reduce the burden of a bloated payroll imposed on local government councils by the continued engagement of the district and village heads. Addressing a news conference on Saturday in Kaduna, however, Hunkuyi said he would reinstate the village…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday said the Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) for persons captured in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) would be ready in October and November. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner, Information and Publicity, disclosed this while monitoring the concluding segment of the ongoing CVR in Awka, Anambra on Saturday. Okoye, who doubles as the National Commissioner supervising Abia, Anambra and Benue, reaffirmed that the exercise would end on Sunday. According to him, INEC has to bring the exercise to a close, to enable the commission to cross check data collated. “This will enable…
The Lassa fever cases in Nigeria have jumped to 857 and 164 people dead so far from the disease in the first seven months of 2022. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said this in its latest Lassa fever situation report for week 29, which showed that there were 857 confirmed cases of the disease in the country. Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever transmitted by rats. It has been known since the 1950s, but the virus was not identified until 1969 when two missionary nurses died from it in the town of Lassa in Nigeria. Found predominantly…
The incumbent chairman of Tangaza local government council in Sokoto state, Bashir Kalanjeni, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP ). Kalanjeni defected to the APC alongside eight serving and two former councillors in the area. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Bashar Abubakar, the Special Assistant to Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North) on New Media, on Sunday in Abuja. Abubakar listed the councillors as Zakariyya Madugu, Abubakar Kalanjeni, Abubakar Aliyu, Halilu Aliyu, Ibrahim Sarkin-Tudu, Musa Sakkwai, Abdullahi Garba and Jamilu Muhammad. Abubakar named the two ex-councillors as Abdullahi Garba…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP) has rescued no fewer than 615 victims of human trafficking in Katsina State from January 2022 to date. The NAPTIP Commander in the state, Mr Musa Aliyu revealed this while briefing newsmen on Saturday in Katsina to mark World Day against trafficking in persons. Aliyu said that NAPTIP received the victims in collaboration with stakeholders from the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the Nigeria Police Force and the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) operating in the state. He urged the Nigerian youths not to be deceived with the so-called greener pastures,…
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Saturday received another batch of 140 Nigerians stranded from Agadaz, Niger Republic. The NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, confirmed this while receiving the returnees in Kano. According to him, the returnees were brought back to Kano at about 9.38pm in three luxury buses under the care of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) from Agadaz. Abdullahi noted that the returnees were brought back through a voluntary repatriation programme for the distressed that had left the country to seek greener pastures in various European countries and could not afford to return…
The Police state command in Kwara has warned criminals and bandits to keep off as the state was not their base. The command’s spokesperson, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, served the warning in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday in Ilorin. It dismissed as fake intelligence report circulating on several social media platforms that some forest reserves in parts of Kwara have been taken over by bandits. The reports claimed that bandits were ready to use the forests to launch attacks on Kwara and some neighbouring states. “The command wishes to state categorically that Kwara is safe and secured and…
The Kwara state government has received an interim report on the verification of pensioners in the state. This is contained in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Head of Service (HoS), Mr Murtala Atoyebi, in Ilorin on Saturday. It explained that the State Government contracted a financial consortium in December 2021, to conduct a verification exercise on pensioners as a result of the challenges inhibiting the smooth payment of pensioners’ entitlement. The interim report submitted by the firm indicated that a total of 16,368 pensioners were processed for screening out of which only 9,931 were verified…