By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter SURGING PAST previous benchmarks, Nigeria’s 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) recorded an unprecedented 17,025 candidates scoring 300 and above—more than double the tally in 2024. The figure marks the highest since the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) adopted the C...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE JOINT Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the resit Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted for candidates affected by a major technical failure during the initial 2025 UTME sessions. Of the 336,845 candidates scheduled for the resit, 21,082 ...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE A COMPULSORY voting bill is said to have passed the second reading stage at the National Assembly. The aim of the bill is to compel every Nigerian of voting age to vote during elections; failure of which punitive measures would be taken against violators. The youths form the majority of Nigeria’s population […]
By Theresa Moses THE OLD Students’ Association of Command Day Secondary School, (CDSSJ) — Maxwell Khobe Cantonment, Rukuba Barracks, Jos, Plateau State popularly known as the “Ex-Commandos” Association, has identified with one of their own for his exceptional academic achievement. The student, Goodhead David Ibinabo, presently in CDSSJ, emerge...
NAN Report THE ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked the federal government to fulfil the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement or face a nationwide industrial action. Chris Piwuna, ASUU president, spoke during a press conference in Abuja on Friday. Piwuna said the union was frustrated by the government’s failure to resolve nine critical iss...
By Helen Okechukwu, JKNewsMedia Profession FRESH COMMITMENT on renewable energy, trade expansion, and legal migration frameworks emerged from high-level bilateral talks in Berlin between Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, and his German counterpart, Johann Wadephul. The engagements reaffirmed a long-standing ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter SOME OF the economic reforms under President Bola Tinubu have propelled the Nigeria Customs Service to an all-time high revenue of ₦1.3 trillion in the first quarter of 2025, more than double the ₦600 billion generated in the same period two years earlier. The figure, described by officials as unpre...
By Otega Ogra and Temitope Ajayi THERE IS a particular kind of silence that greets progress in Nigeria—when food prices fall, inflation slows, the country is positively recognised, debts paid, or things begin to work. It is the kind of silence that would rather keep a good story buried than be told. But make no […]
By JKNewsMedia THE NIGERIAN National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has announced that the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) commenced a scheduled maintenance shutdown on 24 May 2025. According to a statement issued on Sunday by Olufemi O. Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Ltd, the maintenance exercise includes ...
By JKNewsMedia THE NIGERIAN Exchange Group (NGX) has formally dismissed allegations of insider trading levelled against Fidelity Bank’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Dr Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, following her recent acquisition of 18 million units of the bank’s shares. A regulatory letter dated 22 May 2025 confirmed that the transa...
