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Unless urgent and proactive rescue plans are employed, nine of every 10 African nations would be living in abject poverty, the World Bank has warned. Paradoxically, the same year is the global financial institution’s target for ending extreme poverty worldwide. ...

Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu has stressed the need for Japan and Nigeria to boost their diplomatic relations, especially in Science and Technology. Onu made the call when he received the Japanese Ambassador, Yukata Kikuta, at his office ...

Justice Hakeem Oshodi of a Lagos High Court has directed the prosecution to notify the Office of Public Defender (OPD) to represent alleged kidnap kingpin, Chikwudumeme Onwiamadike (alias Evans). Evans had been accused of playing pranks in a bid to ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday filed a petition before the Kano State Election Tribunal seeking to nullify the announcement of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as winner of the gubernatorial poll. It also sought a declaration of its candidate in ...

Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Reverend Adewale Martins, has urged the Federal Government to be more proactive in creating jobs for Nigerian youths. Martins who spoke with newsmen in Lagos, yesterday while receiving the International President of Young Christian Workers Movement ...

The National Examinations Council (NECO), has postponed the 2019 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) into Federal Government Colleges, also know as unity schools, to April 27, 2019. A statement issued yesterday by its Head, Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has introduced Biometric Verification Machine (BVM) for its candidates, as this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) commenced yesterday. This, the board said, was in a bid to check various forms of examination ...

The Senate yesterday failed to get any report on the 2019 budget from its Appropriation Committee upon the expiration of deadline to that effect yesterday. Consequently, Senate failed to resolve issues on the budget document during plenary before adjourning session ...

Senate confirmed President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees for appointment as Board members of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The President had in November 2018 sent six nominees as board members of NBS to the Senate. The confirmation followed the adoption ...

Senate yesterday charged the Federal Government to urgently facilitate the release of Leah Sharibu, a female student of Science Secondary School, Dapchi in Yobe State still in Boko Haram’s captivity. A splinter group of Boko Haram terrorists had on February ...