Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the 2024 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) External results of 84,799 candidates of which 57,114 scored five credits and above including English language and Mathematics, representing 67.35 percent. NECO also warned that any supervisor caught involved in exam malpractice will not only be blacklisted, but their names will also be circulated to other exam bodies, including the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB. The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NECO, Prof Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, who made this disclosure at organization’s headquarters in Minna, said the total number of candidates comprised 44,227 (52.21℅)…

Pope Francis has cancelled his scheduled events over the next few days after being hospitalised, the Vatican said. The pontiff, who has been suffering from bronchitis, was admitted to Gemelli hospital in Rome on Friday after reportedly having breathing difficulties during one of his meetings. In a statement on Friday evening, the Vatican said the pope had been admitted to hospital due to worsening bronchitis and that the first diagnostic tests had shown a “respiratory tract infection”. The pontiff has started “hospital drug therapy”, the statement added, and his “clinical condition is fair; he has a slight fever.” The pontiff’s…

Britain has imposed sanctions targeting figures working in the Russian government, including Pavel Fradkov, a deputy minister for defence, and Vladimir Selin, who leads an arm of the country’s Ministry of Defence. The foreign office said in a statement it also sanctioned Artem Chaika, whose extractives company supports Russian state-owned business, and two entities linked to Russia’s nuclear energy giant Rosatom. Those targeted by the sanctions have links to the “inner circle” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the foreign office said. “I am announcing further sanctions to keep up the pressure on Putin,” said foreign minister David Lammy. “Ukrainians are…

The Igbo socio-cultural and political group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has defended calls for President Bola Tinubu to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, stating that there is nothing wrong with such demands. Ohanaeze argued that if former President Muhammadu Buhari could pardon thousands of Boko Haram fighters through a government rehabilitation program, then President Tinubu also has the power to grant Kanu’s release. In a statement on Friday, the group’s Deputy President General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, described Kanu as a “prisoner of conscience.” According to reports, Ohanaeze’s statement comes in response to an earlier…

They say the best type of love story is the one that comes quietly and hits you in the guts. The type that feels like a warm blanket and hot chocolate on a stormy night. The type that settled in your bones and felt just right. This was how I felt when I first met Kambili*. It felt like I had known him for a long time, like I had seen him in a previous lifetime. There was a connection I felt at that time but I could not quite place it due to fear of how my previous relationship…

Social media activist and social critic, VeryDarkMan, has dismissed reports that Nedu voluntarily resigned from “The Honest Bunch Podcast”, asserting instead that he was sacked. This claim surfaced in a viral post on X, formerly Twitter, where VeryDarkMan, in a fresh statement, insisted that Nedu’s exit was not by choice. Recall that Nedu recently released an official statement announcing his decision to step away from the podcast. His departure followed allegations by VeryDarkMan, who accused him of exploiting his platform and comedy skits to seek intimate relationships with women in exchange for fame. In his resignation statement, Nedu expressed that…

Justice Olukayode Ariwoola of the Federal High Court in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Friday convicted three bureau de change operators for operating without a licence. The culprits—Mustapha Idris, Hassan Bala, and Ajayi Ernest Isaac were prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on separate charges. The charge against Idris reads: “That you, Mustapha Idris sometime in July 2024, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court did carry on business of other financial institution to wit: bureau de change without a valid licence issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria and thereby committed…

A 36-year-old driver, Mustapha Aminu is set to receive 15 strokes of the cane as ordered by a Chief Magistrate Court in Kaduna State on Thursday. Aminu would be receiving the strokes as punishment and a sentence for his conviction after he was found guilty of assaulting a police officer who was on duty. A resident of Ungwan Sanusi in Kaduna State, Aminu was convicted of hitting Sergeant Adamu Maigari on his head with a log of wood. Pleading guilty to the charges read against him, Ibrahim Emmanuel, the Magistrate said the punishment handed to Aminu is aimed at making…

Some Nigerians, including women and children stranded,the have been repatriated with support of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the Libyan Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM), and the Nigerian consulate. It was gathered that the migrants were flown into Lagos from Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli on Wednesday, through the Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) flight. The migrants, a combination of 13 men, 124 women, and 8 children, were brought back to Lagos following an assisted effort to help migrants who are stranded in Libya and facing difficult situations, especially as Libya stands as a transit route to many European…

In a heart-breaking narration, a 14-year-old survivor of sex trafficking in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State has disclosed that she slept with at least 10 to 12 men daily while in the sex camp. The teen survivor, who said she hailed from Akwa Ibom State and was trafficked into Ogun State on January 29, 2024, was arrested by men of the Ogun State Amotekun Corps during a raid at the sex trafficking camp in Ifo local government area of the state on Wednesday, 15 other suspected sex workers and their boss identified as Idem Joy were arrested…