Some 70,603 candidates sat for the 2024 National Common Entrance Examination into federal unity colleges on Saturday. The registrar/CEO, National Examination Council, Ibrahim Wushishi, during the monitoring of the exercise in Abuja, said there was a reduction in registration compared to 2023, when 72,865 registered. Reading the statistics, Mr Wushishi said the council registered 33,335 males and 37,268 females, a lower registration compared to 2023, with 34,064 males and 38,801 females. According to him, the candidates were posted to sit the examination in 599 centres across the country. He said that many factors were responsible for the lower registration, including…
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The Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Aliyu Abdullahi, has said Nigerians consumed an average of 1.6 billion litres of milk and its products. Mr Abdullahi stated this at a news conference on Saturday in Abuja, to mark the 2024 World Milk Day. June 1 is the official day set aside globally to celebrate World Milk Day. The theme of this year’s global celebration is, “Let’s celebrate nutritious and sustainable dairy.’’ Mr Abdullahi said that the theme for Nigeria’s celebration of the World Milk Day is “Harnessing the nutrition and investment opportunities in the dairy…
The National Youths Service Corps in Niger State has embarked on monthly environmental sanitation to ensure a sustainable and healthy environment for residents. Coordinator of the NYSC in Niger, Olayinka Abdulwahab, disclosed this at the launch of the sanitation in Kpakungu community in Minna on Saturday. She explained that during the NYSC Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers in communities, the scheme realised that most ill-health cases treated were due to poor environmental sanitation. “Due to our experience during our HIRD initiative programme, the management of NYSC introduced environmental sanitation based on what was observed. Some of the diseases treated were…
The Lagos state police command has found a teenage boy who claimed to have just arrived from Kampala, Ugandan, with his sister. In a statement on his official X handle on Saturday, the command’s public relations officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, said the boy has been in their custody since May 23, 2024. The command’s spokesperson quoted the boy as saying that he and his sister later were unable to find each other and didn’t know her address or her phone number, let alone anyone in Uganda. Mr Hundeyin wrote, “14-year-old Mukejji Nathaniel Milian claims he arrived Nigeria with his sister from…
The police command in Enugu State has recovered a gun and ammunition from fleeing armed robbery suspects in the metropolis.A statement on Saturday in Enugu by the command’s spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, said men from the Awkunanaw Police Division recovered the gun on May 29.Mr Ndukwe said that the operatives responded to a distress call of a robbery in a compound at Awkunanaw, Enugu, at 10:00 p.m. and foiled the attack.According to him, the police team recovered a locally fabricated double-barrelled gun with two live cartridges dropped by one of the fleeing robbers.The statement further said that detectives from the…
Again, scores of activists hit the streets of Lagos on Saturday demanding an end to what they described as the mischievous use of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission platform to malign perceived enemies by opposition forces. The activists, who frowned at the consistent call for anarchy in a democratic setting by those that their investigations had established to be working for known opposition figures in Kogi State, called on the EFCC to ignore the “sponsored, desperate calls” and focus on toeing the path of the rule of law. The over 80 Human Rights Civil Society Organizations, under the broad…
The Lagos State Government on Friday reconstituted and inaugurated its Removal of Abandoned Vehicles Committee and its Park Monitoring Committee. In a statement, Sola Giwa, the governor’s special adviser on transportation, said the committees would support traffic management personnel, improve traffic flow, and ensure orderliness at motor parks. Bolanle Ogunlola, the Lagos State Ministry of Transportation spokesperson, signed the statement. Mr Giwa said the Removal of Abandoned Vehicles Committee’s primary responsibility would be the prompt removal of all abandoned and disused vehicles obstructing traffic and posing security threats to the metropolis. “The Park Monitoring Committee’s responsibility is to ensure orderliness…
A professor of marketing, Rowland Worlu, has advised the federal government to increase advocacy to discourage the culture of vote-buying and other social vices undermining the country’s electoral processes. Mr Worlu of the Department of Business Management at Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, gave the advice on Saturday. He spoke during the 32nd inaugural lecture with the theme “In Praise of Customers and the Electorate” in the institution. The don emphasised the need for the federal government to liaise with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) to improve things. “An improved advocacy will vigorously discourage the culture of vote-buying…
The Kano State Police Command has appealed to the media for support in navigating the complex emirship tussle amid five conflicting court orders. The state commissioner of police, Usaini Gumel, made the call during a meeting with the heads of media organisations on Friday in Kano. Mr Gumel revealed that the command has received five different court orders from federal and state high courts regarding the emirship dispute and has forwarded them to the Minister of Justice for interpretation. The CP said,” We are currently awaiting guidance on which order to comply with, as the conflicting court directives have created…
Human rights organisation Amnesty International condemned the latest killing of 75 people in Tunbun Rogo village, Borno State. “Amnesty International condemns Boko Haram’s latest vicious killing of at least 75 persons during a deadly attack on Tuesday targeting fishermen at Tunbun Rogo — a village in the Kukawa local government area of #Borno State,” the human rights organisation said in a statement on Friday. This latest attack, according to the human rights organisation, left dozens missing while the bodies of those killed are still being retrieved from the bush. “Since the attack, dozens of people are still missing while bodies…