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By News Agency of Nigeria A philanthropist, Mr Victor Uwajeh has donated a new Toyota utility vehicle to the vigilante group of Onicha-Ugbo community in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta. This is contained in a statement by Daniel Ebo, Consultant on Strategic Communication to Uwajeh on Tuesday in Abuja. Uwajeh who is also a community leader, said the donation would enhance security surveillance in and around the community. Uwajeh said his decision to donate another vehicle to the security outfit was to complement the one he donated years ago. “The donation was my continued show of love for my community and commitment towards contributing my quota to the socio-economic development and security of the area. “Security outfits needed to be equipped with gadgets, f...

Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma, the Anambra student, has finally spoken out after the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) disowned her UTME result. She strongly refuted JAMB's claims and accused the board of lying. Initially, Mmesoma proudly declared that she had achieved the highest score of 362 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This was met with disbelief from JAMB, who declared her result to be a fake and insisted that she had actually scored 249. However, Mmesoma has now broken her silence and is standing firm in her assertion that JAMB's claims are untrue. She is adamant that her original declaration is accurate and is questioning the board's credibility. Mmesoma, in a viral video said she never forged her result and that she printed out the exact...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has said that its scientific analysis of Semovita content did not reveal any plastic material. A statement signed by the agency’s Director-General (D-G), Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, and issued to newsmen in Abuja on Monday revealed the position. Adeyeye said that NAFDAC’s post-marketing analysis was as a result of the claim by a woman in a video on the social media that she was washing Semovita content. According to the D-G, the woman claimed that the residue she got after sieving the Semovita content was plastic. Adeyeye added that the post-marketing analysis also followed a viral video circulated in 2020 showing a similar situation at a community in the country. The D-G said that upon receiving all the ...

Mr Romanus Ejikeme, the father to Mmesoma Ejikeme, has said that her daughter had always come out as overall best student from her nursery school days till date. Ejikeme made the disclosure while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Onitsha. NAN reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), had accused Ejikeme of using a software to manipulate her score to 362 as against 249. According to him, “my daughter has been taking the first position from her nursery school till now. Some of these results are still with me and I have shown them to some journalists who came to my house and they were surprised. “I showed her results to them and they were like wow. Those who have met with her will know she can’t manipulate results. “I am just e...

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has solicited the support of stakeholders to ensure that the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector becomes more competitive. The Director-General of SMEDAN, Dr Olawale Fasanya, gave the advice in Abuja on Monday at a news conference to commemorate the 2023 World MSMEs Day with the theme “Building a Stronger Future Together’’. The United Nations General Assembly set aside June 27 each year as Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day. Fasanya recalled that the last survey jointly conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and SMEDAN in 2020, MSMEs in Nigeria did relatively well in their contributions to both employment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). “MSMEs were responsible for ...

The Vice Chancellor, Salem University Lokoja, Prof. Alewo Johnson-Akubo, has urged the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to urgently checkmate candidates’ manipulation of results. The vice chancellor, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Monday, said that suppressing such would save the education standard from dwindling. Recall that JAMB, in a statement on Sunday said it had withdrawn the result of a candidate of the just-released Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result over alleged manipulation of her scores. The board had claimed that one Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, inflated her result and announced that she scored 362 in the 2023 UTME. She was awarded a three N3 million naira scholarship by Chief Innoce...

The Senate is to resume sitting on Tuesday after the Eid-el Kabir holiday. As the upper chamber resumes, majority and minority leaders are expected to emerge. The All Progressives Congress (APC), with the largest number of members, is expected to produce the majority leader, while the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will produce the minority leader. While APC has 59 senators; PDP has 36; Labour Party (LP) eight; Social Democratic Party (SDP) two; New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) two; Young Peoples Party (YPP) one and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) one. This shows that seven political parties make up the membership of the 10th Senate, with 50 as opposition members. The ruling APC and the minority caucus are also expected to fill the vacant eight principal p...

The the trial of Afrobeat Musician, Seun Kuti could not continue today due to the absence of Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun of the Yaba Magistrates’s court. The registrar, Mr Babalola, in the absence of the chief Magistrate, Olatunbosun, adjourned the case till September 27, 2023, for the continuation of the proceeding. Magistrate Olatunbosun was said to have resumed her administrative leave and was thus absent in court today. Seun Kuti was charged with assault on a police officer, an offence contrary to Section 356 of the Nigerian Criminal Code Act. Meanwhile, on May 24, Magistrate Olatunbosun in her ruling stated that the police cannot be the complainant and also the prosecutor of the case. She, therefore requested the DPP’s advice to continue the prosecution. She sa...

The Anambra State government has set up a panel of inquiry into the controversy trailing the highest scorer in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, the Commissioner for Education, announced this in a statement in Awka on Monday. A panel of inquiry has been set up to work with security agents to investigate the allegation of falsification of result levelled against Mmesoma Ejikeme, who had earlier been showcased in the social media as having scored the highest,” she said. The commissioner described the controversy on the girl’s actual result as embarrassing, especially when Governor Chukwuma Soludo repositioned the education sector in Anambra. Ms Ejikeme, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School Uruagu in Nnewi, had earlier been celebrate...

The National Industrial Court has ordered the Police Service Commission (PSC) to pay retired Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Joseph Mbu N40 million as damages. The court found that Mr Mbu’s retirement before the mandatory age of 60 was unlawful. Justice Osatohanmwen Obaseki-Osaghae stated, ”I hold that the claimant’s premature retirement through a press release on July 2, 2016, is unlawful, unconstitutional, null and void, and of no effect.” The court further set aside the purported retirement and declared that Mr Mbu remained an officer of the Nigeria Police Force ( NPF) until he attained the mandatory retirement age of 60 on May 10, 2018. Additionally, the court ordered the defendant to pay Mr Mbu his salaries, allowances, and entitlements from July 2, 2016, when he was wr...

Mr Max Amuchie, immediate past President 2022/2023, Rotary Club Abuja, CBD, says the club is committed to impacting society through rendering service. Amuchie said this at the 7th Award and Handover Dinner of Rotary Club Abuja CBD, tagged Synergy to Hope, on Sunday in Abuja. He handed over leadership to his successor during the event. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the club’s year begins every July 1 as Amuchie’s tenure ended on June 30. As a new President, Rotarian Aisha Ali takes up the mantle of leadership after an election on July 1. The club conducts elections and change leadership annually. According to him, the humanitarian principles of rotary club is likened to the works of the Catholic Prophesion of mercy. “We are talking about shelter to who ...

Residents of Trademore Estate in Abuja staged a protest on Monday by closing the estate gates, in response to the planned demolition of structures by officials of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA). The protest comes after the estate was declared a disaster zone due to recent flash floods. Last week, heavy rainfall resulted in flooding of houses and roads, leaving residents trapped in their homes. The Federal Emergency Management Agency reported that over 116 houses were submerged in the estate. While no casualties were reported, the residents association through the Chairman of the residents association, Mr Adewale Adenaike, expressed concern over the recurring nature of the flash floods every year Adenaike, however, noted that alternative solutions could be ...

By Collins Yakubu-Hammer A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), known as Concerned Citizens of Nigeria (CCN), has lauded the efforts of the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency, Mr Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, saying he has enhanced financial sanity, transparency and probity into the agency. This is contained in a statement by the Director of Public Relations and Cooperate Communications of the group, Mr Stephen John, on Sunday in Abuja. John said that Ahmad has demonstrated capacity and confidence reposed on him to take the agency to the next level. “We have monitored his system of administration in the agency and come to the conclusion that he has done so well and his efforts are worthy of commendation. “We have also observed that some corrupt officers involved ...

By Victor Okoye The Chartered Institute of Educational Practitioners, United Kingdom (CIEPUK) on Monday said it was set to offer university scholarship to the wards of both public and private sector workers across the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that CIEPUK had earlier revealed that it was partnering several institutions and the National Association of Private School Proprietors’ (NAPSP) to award scholarship to outstanding students in the just concluded 2023 JAMB/UTME examinations. Prof. Marcel Ezenwoye, the National President of CIEPUK,however told NAN that the Institute had decided to extend its scholarship programme to students whose parents were either working for government or in the private sector. He said the gesture was a way of helping the worker...

By Bridget Ikyado The rising high profile Ior Gboko Foundation (IGF) has congratulated its pioneer and indefatigable President, Dr. Jimmy T. Ajim Ph.D on his Doctorate investiture. Dr. Jimmy T. Ajim was hosted by the members of Ior Gboko Foundation to a quality reception. The event was a pull - out of a 2-day IGF Presidential Sallah/working visit to Gboko. According to Mr Ter Akaa,IGF Public Relations and Media Manager (PRMM),Dr. Jimmy Ajim bagged a Doctorate in Singapore where his investiture on Leadership and Management was conferred on him and his colleagues from other countries is from the London Brigde Business School. His set conducted their research on the Transformational Leadership model of Singapore, the choice of the place for the investiture. The Foundation c...

A former Zamfara Governor, Sani Yerima, says though some bandits terrorising Nigeria are foreigners, President Bola Tinubu should dialogue with them as late former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua dialogued with Niger Delta militants. Mr Yerima, who introduced Sharia law in Zamfara in 1999, made this call in an interview with BBC Hausa on Saturday. I’m advising the government to, first of all, find time to sit with these bandits, just like they sat with Niger Delta militants in the past. Because a majority of them are Nigerians, even though there are some foreigners among them,” Mr Yerima said. “But Nigerians among them can be convinced, as the Niger Delta militants were convinced and empowered to stop.” Mr Yerima added, “if that fails, then the government can use force on them w...

The Asiwaju Mandate Group expresses great consternation with the benigh and unfounded allegations of infidelity crafted with the sole aim to milign and tarnish the image of the First Family and by extension the good reputation of Mr Seyi Tinubu who by all standard is reputed with excellent character and thorough upbringing in consonant and typical of a proper African home. Abubakar Dahiru, the National Publicity Secretary of AMG, made the reaction in a press statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. The statement said the group is dismayed and distraught over the crass display of irresponsibility irreconcilable with logic and reality exhibited by Mr Ude using his social media handles. According to him, It is incomprehensible and reprehensible to note that Mr Ude who himself has enj...

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has advised Nigerians to persevere despite hardship to enjoy the benefits of President Bola Tinubu’s economic initiatives. Mr Bello said state governors felt citizens’ pains and would complement the federal government’s initiatives to provide relief. “We feel their pains and trust the people to be patient in this trying phase so that they will reap the benefits of the new government’s economic initiatives,” the governor said after meeting with Mr Tinubu on Friday in Lagos. Mr Bello said the successful implementation of the succour pledged by the federal government to cushion the negative effect of the fuel subsidy removal must be matched by all tiers of government. “Now we have a leader who has clearly spelt out his policy direction for revamping ...

The Anambra State government says it has commenced the installation of clock-in devices in public health facilities to curb absenteeism and ensure that health workers take their duties seriously. Afam Obidike, the Commissioner for Health, said this in Awka during a meeting with administrators of public hospitals in the state. The commissioner said the device would end absenteeism and indolence among health workers. “The device will also be used to monitor the hours health workers put in each day, and that will subsequently determine their monthly salaries and allowances,” Mr Obidike said. He said Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s administration takes health care seriously and wants residents to have access to quality services at the health facilities. “This is part of the reasons ...