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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has denied media reports that it had increased the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) fees. JAMB spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in a statement on Wednesday insisted that the cost of obtaining its UTME application documents remains N3,500. He disclosed that the Board has been resisting pressure from ‘partnering […]
State governments hijack funds, functions of local councils• Stakeholders seek scrap of joint account and allocation committee• ‘Why opposition parties are non-existent in grassroots’ Despite an increase in earnings in the last seven months of post-subsidy regime, and estimated allocation of N9.56 trillion from the federation account in the last five years, basic services in the […]
A nine-year-old boy, Emmanuel Adeyemi, who was reported missing in Lagos, has been found. PUNCH Metro had on December 13 reported that Emmanuel was nowhere to be found on November 19 when his father, Olasunkanmi Adeyemi, lamented his sudden disappearance while on an evangelical outreach in the Orile-Agege area of the state. Adeyemi, who disclosed to […]
Urges govt to make public policies egalitarianThe Labour Party (LP) gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has urged the state government to make public policies transparent, egalitarian and people-centric. He said this would silence divisionary accusations of bias and discrimination in the state. In a statement yesterday, Rhodes-Vivour also urged the government to establish […]
The United Nations Migration Agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), has advised potential migrants to be cautious of a syndicate that specializes in offering fake employment letters to Nigerians seeking to work in the United Kingdom, UK. Urging them to seek out proper information before embarking on any migration, the IOM disclosed that over 260,000 […]
Power supply dropped to 3,636MW, yesterday, following the shutdown of Egbin Power Plant and challenges in the transmission network. The loss of 676MW from Egbin, Nigeria’s biggest power plant, at 10a.m., yesterday, dropped grid supply from 4,416MW to 3,632MW. A statement by the generation company posted on its verified X account (formerly Twitter) said the […]
• Deforestation may worsen as cooking gas soars by 164% in five years• Waivers to cost govt N10.5 billion in revenue loss• N250b CBN intervention fund fails as import continues• Stakeholders seek new interventions to halt importation Nigerians spend about N1.5 trillion on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) yearly, an amount that may be exceeded next […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has hiked the registration fees for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board in series of posts on its X handle said the registration fee for UTME is now N6,200 as against the former which was N4,800. JAMB also increased the fee for those wanting to […]
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said the current tax revenue accruing to the State is a far cry from actual projection, noting that the State has not fully optimised its tax potential. The Governor said Lagos had the capacity to widen its tax base and enhance efficiency in collection mechanism, but noted that the […]
Cybercriminals are using artificial intelligence to conduct thorough research on potential victims, the National Information Technology Development Agency has disclosed. The agency noted that this enabled them to create personalised messages to effectively deceive victims into divulging sensitive information. It revealed this in a recent advisory on the dangers of phishing. It explained that phishing […]
