Extortion: JAMB to take over collection of registration fee from CBT centres from 2022
Nov. 29, 2021 JAMB says it has taken over the collection of the N700 registration fee for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), from 2022. It said in its weekly…
NCC enlightens BUK students, others on rights, privileges as telecoms consumers
Nov. 29, 2021 The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has hosted another edition of Campus Conversation (CC), at the weekend in Bayero University, Kano (BUK), where officials of the Commission engaged…
Canada Detects First Cases Of Omicron Variant In Two Travellers From Nigeria
Nov. 29, 2021 Canada announced that it has detected its first cases of the new Omicron strain of COVID-19, in two people who had traveled recently to Nigeria. The government…
Alleged attempted kidnap: Evans’ co-defendant dies in custody
Nov. 29, 2021 Chiemeka Arinze, one of the co-defendants in the alleged kidnap and trial of Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, has died in the custody of Correctional Services. Arinze was…
Jos prison attack: 7 fleeing inmates rearrested, 1 voluntarily surrenders
Nov. 29, 2021 The Police Command in Plateau says it has arrested eight of the inmates who escaped on Sunday during an attack on the State’s Correctional centre by gunmen….
Omicron variant detected in more countries as scientists race to find answers
Nov. 29, 2021 The World Health Organization (WHO) said it is not yet clear whether Omicron, first detected in Southern Africa, is more transmissible than other variants, or if it…
Omicron could have originated in HIV patients – German expert
Nov. 29, 2021 The surprising number of mutations in the Omicron Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant could signal that it originated in a patient with HIV or another immunodeficiency, a top German…
APC, PDP in Borno war of words over resettlement of IDPs
Nov. 29, 2021 The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Borno have engaged in war of words over on-going resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)….
Twitter Has Agreed To All FG’s Conditions – Keyamo
Nov. 29, 2021 The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said that the microblogging platform, Twitter, has agreed to all conditions laid out by the Federal…
WHO reaches draft consensus on future pandemic treaty
Nov 29, 2021 Member states of the World Health Organization have reached a tentative consensus to negotiate a future agreement on preventing pandemics, bridging the gap between sides led by…