The National Examination Council (NECO) has said results of the 2023 Senior Secondary School Certificate will be released on Tuesday. NECO concluded the conduct of the examination in early August 2023, and 1,205,888 candidates sat for the examination. Six hundred one thousand and seventy-four candidates are male, while 584,814 are female. The exam body had planned to release the result within 45 days, but the promise did not materialise. However, NECO confirmed that the results will be released by 11 a.m. today.
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The United Nations has criticised Israel’s decision to stop all food, water, electricity and fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said in Geneva on Tuesday that it was forbidden under international humanitarian law to deprive people of what they needed to survive. “The imposition of sieges that endanger the lives of civilians by depriving them of goods essential for their survival is prohibited under international humanitarian law. “Any restrictions on the movement of people and goods to implement a siege must be justified by military necessity or may otherwise amount to collective…
A vigilante, Yahaya Mohammed, was on Monday paraded by the Niger State Police Command for allegedly killing a commercial motorcyclist before robbing him of his motorcycle. The vigilante was alongside 37 other suspects paraded for allegedly being involved in various criminal activities in the state. The spokesman for the command, Abiodun Wasiu, while parading the suspects explained that investigations were ongoing to unravel the details of their crimes before taking them to court. According to him, the police received information of a lifeless body with a slit throat at the Shabalile area of Mokwa, adding that the police operatives, led…
The Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Chris Okafor before Justice O. Eyah of Enugu State High Court on four-count charges bordering on stealing and obtaining money by false pretences to the tune of N64.89 million. He was arraigned on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, based on a petitioner’s claims linking him with an alleged fraudulent property transaction. Count one of the charges read: “That you, Chris Okafor, and Lion of Judea Real Estate Company Limited, between the months of March 2017 and December 2018 at Enugu State within the jurisdiction of this…
An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old man, Quadri Babalola, to six months imprisonment for stealing an Infinix phone valued at N57,000. The accused, whose house address was not provided, was charged with stealing the phone belonging to one Benjamin Odeyemi. The Prosecutor, Insp E.O. Adaraloye, told the court that the accused committed the offence on February 28 at about 2:30 p.m. at No. 52, Plaza Junction, Sango-Ota. Adaraloye said the offence contravened Section 390 of the Criminal Code, Law of Ogun, 2006. The Magistrate, Mr O.O. Okiki, sentenced the convict to six months imprisonment without…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has disqualified the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva, from contesting the November 11 election in Bayelsa State. The ruling was delivered on Monday by Justice Donatus Okorowo. Okorowo ruled that Sylva, having been sworn in twice and ruled for five years as governor of the state, would breach the 1999 constitution as amended if allowed to contest again. The judge stated that Sylva was not qualified to run in the forthcoming November poll because he would have spent more than eight years in office as governor…
Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, is of the view that the people of Niger Republic should be allowed, via their national institutions, the opportunity to revert quickly to a representative democratic government. This is even as he has described the ongoing political crisis in Niger Republic as a matter of dire and urgent national interest and security to Nigeria. Obi said that primacy must be given to dialogue and diplomacy towards a resolution with minimal disruptive impact on Nigeria and the West African sub-region, regardless of the positions taken by other various parties. In a statement issued…
Governor Mallam Umar Namadi of Jigawa State has flagged off the distribution of rice to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal on citizens. The Governor flagged off the distribution on Saturday at Dutse Local Government secretariat. DAILY POST reported that the Jigawa State government approved the sum of over N134m for the purchase of five trucks of rice to complement the federal government’s five trucks to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal. Speaking at the event, the Governor said the rice distribution was part of government’s palliative measures. “The palliatives include bags of rice, as well as cash…
Borno South Senator, Ali Ndume has said the Senate would take drastic action against Senate President Godswill Akpabio over the two million naira enjoyment token. Ndume said Akpabio’s comments were unbecoming of an elder statesman. Speaking with BBC Hausa Service, Ndume confirmed that senators received two million naira. He, however, lamented that Akpabio’s remark was an embarrassment to senators. According to him: “All senators received N2 million. And I am making this comment with a heavy heart because he (Akpabio) is the cause of this controversy. “He made a very wrong statement, and I warned him immediately that his comments…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio and the Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas over “the unlawful plan to spend N40bn on 465 exotic and bulletproof cars for members and principal officials, and N70bn as ‘palliatives’ for new members.” The suit is coming on the heels of the statement by Akpabio that the Clerk of the National Assembly had sent “holiday allowances” into the “various bank accounts of senators”. Some 137 million Nigerians face extreme poverty. In the suit number FHC/L/CS/1606/2023 filed last Friday at the Federal…