The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, says 1.7 million candidates are expected to sit for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Oloyede made the disclosure while fielding questions from journalists at the Information and Communication Technology Retreat organised for stakeholders on Tuesday in Abeokuta, Ogun. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the […]
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President Donald Trump’s embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned late Monday night, following reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. Mr Flynn’s departure less than one month into the Trump administration marks an extraordinarily early shakeup in the US President’s senior team of advisers. […]
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The Deputy UN Secretary-General designate, Ms Amina Mohammed, has said her priority will be the development of Nigeria and Africa as a whole. Mohammed stated this on Monday in Abuja at a dinner organised in her honour by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on her appointment as Deputy UN Secretary-General Designate. New UN Secretary-General António […]
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According the Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump on the phone on Monday afternoon. Mr. Buhari spoke to his American counterpart from his current residence in London, where he is on medical vacation. Mr. Adesina said the call between the two […]
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On a night that saw Beyoncé win just the Best Video award, Adele took most of the prestigious titles at stake at the 59th Grammys in Los Angeles. The British born singer, with the full name Adele Adkins scooped Best Pop Solo Performance for her hit song Hello, brushing aside Beyoncé’s Hold Up. Adele also […]
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Former German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has been elected on Sunday as the nation’s 12th president since World War II. The 61-year-old Steinmeier was backed in his bid for the largely ceremonial post of president by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition. Voting took place in a secret ballot among the 1,260-member Federal Convention, comprising lawmakers […]
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India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has recovered 1.3 kilograms of fine quality Colombian cocaine stashed in 90 capsules from the stomach of a Nigerian, who had come to Delhi from Lome, Togo. According to The Times of India, the accused was taken to hospital where an X-ray confirmed the presence of foreign bodies in his […]
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At least 15 houses either belonging or rented by immigrants, especially Nigerians, have been burnt by angry residents in Rosettenvile, south of Johannesburg. The residents are reported to be angry that foreign nationals had turned the neighbourhood into a drug haven. According to Africa Review, some shops belonging to foreign nationals in the area were […]
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Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona has been handed an ambassadorial role by the game’s global governing body FIFA. “Now it’s official,” the 1986 World Cup winner said on his Facebook page on Thursday. “Finally I can fulfil one of the lifelong dreams; to work for a clean and transparent FIFA alongside people who really love […]
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A second lethal blow was struck Thursday at the controversial travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump on citizens of seven Islamic nations. In a much anticipated verdict, a U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday unanimously upheld the temporary suspension of President Donald Trump’s order. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling came in […]
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