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The West African Examination Council (WAEC) says the increase in its registration fee from N13,950 to N18,000 was due to the rising inflation in the country. The Council, however, pledged to continue to improve on its service delivery, assuring that the just concluded 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will be released within 45 days after the conduct of the last paper as is the practice of the Council. The examination body made the disclosures when the Chairman of Council, Professor Ato Essuman, led his team on a courtesy visit to the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu on Thursday in Abuja.

The PDP Lagos governorship candidate Azeez Adediran disclosed that he picked Funke Akindele as his running mate and not the comedian personality of her TV series Jenifa or Sulia. The politician noted that even the ruling party that called them unserious once gave their ticket to another actor Desmond Elliott. He also added that he couldn't believe that Funke's colleagues did not rise to defend their profession when she was being dragged on social media..

The Federal Executive Council has given approval to Nigeria Air to lease aircraft to start operations. The Minister of Aviation, Mr Hadi Sirika made the announcement while briefing State House correspondents after the council meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday. The Minister, who didn’t disclose when the national carrier would starts its operations, said the company would begin with three aircrafts. He added that Nigeria Air is open to investment from any of the country’s airline companies.

Garba Shehu, the spokesman for the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has dismissed the attempt to sack his principal by some senators as a mere waste of time. Shehu’s comments come against the background of a walk out staged by some senators on Wednesday, after the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, failed to allow the Minority Leader, Philip Aduda, to move a motion for the sacking of the president. Via his verified Twitter handle on Thursday, Shehu slammed the opposition lawmakers, saying “The performative and babyish antics of those senators staging a walk out notwithstanding, Senate President Ahmad Lawan’s refusal on Wednesday to entertain the ridiculous motion to impeach our President was quite appropriate and correct. “We would welcome their collaboration in our efforts to solve the problems Nigerians face on a daily basis. No one is asking them to waste their time attempting to impeach a democratically elected President at the end of his second term - certainly not t

The president of the African Development Bank Group, Akinwumi Adesina and his wife, Grace, are marking their 38th wedding anniversary. The former Nigerian minister, shared photos to mark the day on his Twitter handle alongside a romantic message to his wife. He wrote, “My Love, Grace: As we celebrate our 38th wedding anniversary today, I love you today more than ever. You are God’s most precious gift and blessing to me. You are beautiful, loving, kind, and godly — a model wife, mother, and my best friend. Happy Anniversary Honey! I love you!”


A human rights group has filed a criminal complaint with Singapore’s attorney general to seek the arrest of Sri Lanka’s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa for alleged war crimes. Mr Rajapaksa, who fled to Singapore this month after he was ousted from office over Sri Lanka's economic collapse, was defence minister during the country’s civil war, which ended in 2009. The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP), an evidence-gathering organisation administered by a South Africa-based non-profit foundation, said on Sunday that its lawyers had filed the complaint requesting his immediate arrest. The complaint alleges Mr Rajapaksa committed grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the civil war “and that these are crimes subject to domestic prosecution in Singapore under universal jurisdiction”. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has left the nation’s 22 million people struggling with shortages of essentials, including medicine, fuel and food. Months of protests have focused on th

The Kano State High Court on Thursday sentenced the Proprietor of Nobel Kids Academy and North West Preparatory School, Abdulmalik Tanko, the principal suspect who masterminded the kidnap and killing of 5-year-old school girl, Hanifa Abubakar, to death. The Presiding Judge, Justice Usman Na’abba, sentenced him to death by hanging while delivering his judgment on Thursday. Hanifa was abducted on December 4, 2021, on her way home from Islamiyya school and subsequently discovered to have been killed by the convict, who is her teacher and school proprietor, after demanding N6m ransom, at Dakata, Nasarawa Local Government Area of Kano State.

The Adamawa State Police Command has apprehended a 20-year-old housewife for stabbing her 38-year-old husband to death. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, who said the state Commissioner of Police, CP Sikiru Akande, had directed clinical investigations into the incident for proper prosecution, explained that the suspect had engaged her husband in a brawl, for keeping late at night which eventually led to his death. He explained that the suspect, Caroline Barka, a resident of Angwan Tamiya, in Madagali Local Government Area of the state, got into a physical brawl with her husband, following his return from one of his late night outings drunk. The wife was said to have picked offence with the husband for falling on their one-year-old baby. In the ensuing brawl, the suspect had allegedly taken a kitchen knife, which she used to stab the husband, resulting in his death. She told authorities during investigations that she had been “angered by his drunkenness, habitual

The Governor-elect of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adekele, has promised the people of the state that he is prepared to serve. He said he was aware of the several challenges facing the state but that he would tackle them head-on. Adeleke, who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, defeated the incumbent governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Adegboyega Oyetola, to emerge as the winner of the July 16 election. In an interview with Saturday Punch, Adeleke, who received his Certificate of Return from the INEC on Wednesday, said, “My election by the good people of Osun State is divine. I am prepared to govern. I am also not unaware of the many challenges facing the people of our state. I want to assure you and the people of our dear state that I won’t disappoint them. “I have the capacity to lead the state and I will do it with the fear of God. I shall provide the needed leadership. I have learnt a lot within the last four years when our first mandate was stole

A gang of armed men in the early hours of Saturday, killed the Deputy Leader of Song Local Government Legislative Council, Adamawa State, Hon. Ishaya Bakano. The death of late Hon. Ishaya, who represents Gudu Mboi Ward, is believed to have been the target of assassination, as the gunmen who broke into his residence at Bannga in the wee hours of Saturday, left the venue shortly after they shot and killed him. A family source said the gunmen also shot the son of the deceased, and that he is currently receiving treatment in the hospital.

A London based medical doctor has joined Senator Ike Ekweremadu and wife, Beatrice, in the dock in the United Kingdom (UK) over alleged plot to harvest the kidney of a homeless Nigerian. Obinna Obeta, 50, of Hillbeck Close, Southwark, southeast London, appeared at Bexley Magistrates’ Court on 13 July, accused of conniving with the Ekweremadus to arrange for the travel of Ukpo Nwamini David (21) from Nigeria to the UK. Obeta is also alleged to have conspired with the former Deputy Senate President to arrange or facilitate the travel of David with a view to exploiting him via organ harvesting. The charges come under the Modern Slavery Act, according to The Mail of London. Prosecutors claim the Ekweremadus planned to have David’s kidney removed so it could be given to their daughter.

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has congratulate the governor-elect of Osun State, Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke on his electoral victory. Before Saturday’s governorship election, the monarch publicly endorsed the second term bid of Governor Gboyega Oyetola and stated his desire that an indigene of Iwoland would succeed Oyetola. In a statement on his Instagram page on Friday, Oluwo congratulates Adeleke saying, “I congratulate the Osun State Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke on his victory at the keenly contested poll. He has demonstrated an uncommon courage, tenacity to have survived many hurdles. His life is a lesson for many aspiring youths. There is always reward for hard work. "I look forward to having an Iwo man as the Osun State Governor if God permits! I pray for divine wisdom, courage and understanding for Senator Ademola Adeleke to effectively manage Osun State affairs.”

Mayo, the son of a former governor of Ogun state, Otunba Gbenga Daniels, bagged a Masters’s Degree in Real Estate from the University of London. Former first lady, Yeye Olufunke Daniels, and their children attended the graduation ceremony.

Mustapha, one of the sons of the former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has graduated from the University of Portsmouth, London.  He bagged a first class in Economics from the UK university on Tuesday, July 19.  The former monarch, his wives, children, family and friends attended the graduation.

Anambra Government has concluded arrangements to count and register all the herbalists and spiritualists in the State to stop charms for kidnappings and other crimes in the society. The decision by the government was taken during the State Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Chukwuma Soludo. Commissioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu, who disclosed this in a statement Wednesday in Awka, after the meeting, said the government wanted to use such method to eliminate criminally minded elements.

The former South-West Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Kemi Nelson, has died. According to Chief Press Secretary to Lagos State Governor, Gboyega Akosile, she died on Sunday. 66 years old Nelson was Commissioner for Women Affairs in 1999 - 2003 and a close ally of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has said the leadership of the All Progressives Congress in the state will respond to the result of Saturday’s governorship poll after studying it. This was contained in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Ismail Omipidan, obtained in Osogbo on Sunday. Adeleke was returned elected after defeating his closest challenger, Oyetola, and 13 other candidates, scoring a total of 403,371. Oyetola got 375,027 votes and won in 13 local government areas of the state to come second in the election. But the governor, who was the APC candidate in the poll, called on his supporters to remain calm, and the people of the state to go about their businesses without let or hindrance.

Growing up in the streets of Ibadan, Oyo State, Ibrahim Sarafa didn’t have big dreams like his mates. Raised by a single mother with many other siblings after his father died, Sarafa could only manage to attend a local primary school which he never completed. His chances of completing primary education and proceeding to secondary school were further dashed when his mother who later remarried into a polygamous home, died, leaving him and his siblings under the care of their stepfather. At 14, Sarafa broke ranks with his second family, took to the streets and began to fend for himself. A huge refuse dump in the Sabo area of Ibadan soon became his permanent residence as he joined other homeless children and scavengers to ransack the dumpsite for useful scraps to sell. The proceeds from selling scraps weren’t much but it was enough to keep him from hunger.  According to extract from a Police report, a phone accessory shop in Sabo was burgled on the night of June 16, 2018. When the shop ow

A 56-year-old man, Inisanmi Ayeniberu, has prayed an Igando customary court, Lagos, to dissolve his six-year-old marriage with his wife, Chinwe, on the ground that she gives birth almost every year. The man told the court, “I thought we would be happy in the presence of each other, not to have the house filled with babies.” He also said Chinwe was quarrelsome, disrespectful and intolerant. Chinwe, a trader, denied the allegation, claiming that her husband got married to her dubiously. She said, “He never told me I won’t give birth for him. He got married to me knowing I had four children for my late husband. He promised to take care of me and my children, but they were all lies. I took in sometime in 2018 and gave birth to a boy who was healthy. Immediately my husband came to see that boy, he passed away. “My husband gave me pills when I became pregnant and unknown to me it was to terminate my pregnancy. I bled for almost two weeks and lost that baby. He later told me that it was embar

Former female governorship Aspirant in Kogi state, Barr. (Mrs.) Natasha Hadiza  Akpoti-Uduaghan and her lovely husband has welcome a baby boy. 42 year old Natasha, mother of three hails from Okehi in Kogi State. She is from Ebiraland.  On the 5th March, 2022, she married the Alema of Warri, Chief Emmanuel Uduaghan (not to be confused with the ex-governor Emmanuel Uduaghan), in a ceremony at her native home in Ihima. Congratulations to them.

Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo, has said that his political focus is now on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. He said this in an interview on Arise TV on Thursday, days after resigning his membership of the All Progressives Congress, following the selection of Kashim Shettima as Bola Tinubu’s running mate. The veteran actor, who is also a lawyer faulted the Muslim-Muslim ticket and thus shared his resignation letter on his Instagram page on Monday. Speaking on Thursday, Okonkwo said, “I’m not contemplating any party yet but I must tell you, a friend of mine, a northern brother of mine from Kano State when he learnt I was coming for this programme told me, I must be obi-centric going forward.  “This is a northern Muslim talking. Anybody that is telling you that northern Muslims would not support Christians is telling you false statement. “That is the problem with bringing octogenarians to manage your party and the affairs of government.  “I’m Obi-centric but I

Former Kwara state governor cum former Senate President, Bukola Saraki and other PDP bigwigs are in Osun to support the party candidate in the Osun guber election coming up tomorrow, Senator Ademola Adeleke. They also observed the Jummat service at the Late Isiala Adeleke Memorial Mosque, Ede.. Saraki wrote on his Facebook page:  "This afternoon, we observed our Juma’at prayers at the Isiaka Adeleke Mosque in Ede, Osun State. May Almighty Allah answer all our prayers.  Ameen. #jummahmubarak

The Federal Government has approved the sum of N400 billion under the National Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy. This covers certain welfare schemes which include the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer, Farmer Money, and Market Money. The approval for 2022 was made known by the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule. Governor Sule had spoken with State House correspondents on Thursday after a meeting of the National Steering Committee of the NPRGS at Aso Rock in Abuja, to review the implementation of what was approved in the budget. The President Muhammadu Buhari had in 2021, set up the NPRGS headed by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo, has spoken out following the sentencing of her colleague, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, alias Baba Ijesa. Ojo, who is also a sexual assault survivor, was one of the foremost voices in support of Baba Ijesa’s victim and her foster mother, Nollywood actress and comedienne, Princess. Reacting to the sentence via her Instagram page on Thursday, The Real Housewives of Lagos reality TV star said the judgement was a victory for victims of abuse. She also admonished those going through abuse to “speak up”, and never remain silent. “To all the girl child and boy child being abused, never be AFRAID to speak up and speak out. This victory is for you,” she wrote in the post" The actor was arraigned before the Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, Lagos, where he faced six counts of child defilement that included indecent treatment of a child, sexual assault, attempted sexual assault by penetration, and sexual assault by penetration. Justice Taiwo Oluwatoyin,

Mohammed, the son of Jigawa State governor, Abubakar Badaru, has graduated from Brunel University, London. His graduation comes days after the son of Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, also graduated from a UK university. Meanwhile, the current strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, hit five months on Thursday.

The Field Commander, Osun State Amotekun Corps, Amitolu Shittu, on Friday, urged operatives of the corps to comport themselves in a peaceful manner during the governorship election on Saturday. In a statement on Friday, Shittu asked the operatives to go along to their polling units with their “tested and confirmed African Science materials”. “You must conduct yourself in a peaceful manner devoid of any controversy as the law has no respect for violators”. “You are to perform your civic right in mufti. Do not go to any polling unit with any material except your voter’s card. Remember to have with you all your tested and confirmed African Science materials.

Singer, Tiwa Savage, has been conferred with an honorary doctorate degree by the University of Kent in the UK. The ceremony took place on Friday. Sharing a photo from the event, the school said, "Congratulations Dr #tiwasavage! We're super proud to have awarded the Queen of Afrobeats an honorary doctorate at Canterbury Cathedral this morning."

Some filling stations in Lagos, Abuja, Niger and other states dispensed Premium Motor Spirit at between N200/litre to N250/litre on Sunday, higher than the government-approved retail price of N165/litre, as queues for the product extended to more states. It was gathered that the worsening queues for petrol in Lagos and neighbouring states, as well as its prolonged persistence in Abuja and environs, were due to the insufficient supply of products by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company.

National Emergency Management Agency has said that the flooding that occurred in Lagos State last weekend claimed seven lives. Zonal Coordinator, South West, NEMA, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday. “The post-emergency phase assessment after the unprecedented rainfall of Friday, July 8 and Saturday, July 9, 2022, has revealed that about seven people – three children of the same parent and four adults died. The siblings, Michael, 18; Elizabeth, 17 and Timi, 14, were swept away while trying to relocate from their room to the main church structure. The youngest child, Timi, who was said to be asthmatic, while trying to climb the plank linking their room to the church building, slipped and was overpowered by the flood.