11,419 candidates were booked for cheating as the National Examinations Council released the result of the November/December 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination on Thursday. The Registrar of NECO, Prof Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, made the announcement. The NECO boss said, “11,419 candidates were booked for various forms of malpractice, as against …

The National Examinations Council (NECO) on Thursday announced the release of the result of the November/December 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination. The Registrar of NECO, Prof Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, made the announcement in Minna, Niger state. According to the NECO boss, a total of 59,124 candidates sat for the examination, …

President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the validity of the old N200 notes till April 10, 2023. The president announced this in a national broadcast on Thursday Monday. “I am addressing you as your democratically elected president to sympathise with you over the hardship being experienced as a result of the …

A new Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, has assumed duty at the Lagos State Police Command, taking over from Abiodun Alabi, who was promoted to an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, in charge of Zone 2 with headquarters in Lagos. Confirming the development via a statement on his Twitter handle late Tuesday, the …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)  has extended its 2023 UTME registration exercise by one week starting from Wednesday, February 15, 2023. A press statement by Board’s Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said with the extension, the sale of ePINs would end on Monday, February 20, 2023, …

The Federal High Court in Lagos has granted bail to an actress, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, who was arraigned before the court on Monday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly spraying new naira notes at a party. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke who admitted the actress to bail in the …

Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja has sentenced a 51-year-old cleric, Nduka Anyanwu, to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating two biological sisters. Justice Abiola Soladoye convicted the Lagos-based pastor on Tuesday of impregnating a 13 and a 17-year-old, both of whom have been delivered of …

Some yet-to-be-identified persons have blocked the ever-busy Eleyele junction in the Ibadan North-West Local Government Area of Oyo State to protest the scarcity of fuel and new naira notes. Recall a similar protest rocked the city on Friday, February 3, where some hoodlums within the popular Araromi Spare parts, Gate, …

The apex court, which heard the case on Wednesday, was filled to capacity with a retinue of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, other lawyers and the governors of Kaduna and Kogi states, Nasir El-Rufai and Yahaya Bello, respectively. The Supreme Court of Nigeria has adjourned the case on the naira swap policy …

The Anambra state police command on Thursday February 14, rescued fifteen members of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC abducted by unknown gunmen along Isseke, Ihiala road in the state . A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, says the Corps members had just finished their …