The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has reacted to some complaints by candidates facing difficulties checking their 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results. Recall that JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, on Monday announced the release of the UTME results. Our earlier report revealed the step-by-step approach candidates can take to check their results through the use of SMS and a portal. However, some candidates said on Tuesday that their efforts to check the results had not been successful. Some candidates facing the challenge took to their X handles to express their disappointment. AMB via its official handle, responded…
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A United Kingdom-based Nigerian doctor, Tijion Esho, has lost his medical licence after being found guilty of giving free Botox injections in return for sex, Telegraph reports. Esho is known for his medical opinion and commentaries on cosmetic surgery discussions on popular Television programmes, including ITV’s This Morning, BBC’s Morning Live and E4’s Body Fixers. He was also regularly consulted on Body Fixers for E4, a channel operated by Channel 4, which aired for two seasons in 2016 and 2017 and made appearances on segments of BBC’s Morning Live until the summer of 2022. Esho is the founder of the…
The Nigerian international goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie, has etched her name in the history books by becoming the first African and Nigerian player to be crowned the best goalkeeper in the French D1 Arkema (women’s league). The 23-year-old shot-stopper’s remarkable achievements this season, including her penalty-saving heroics, cemented her status as one of the best goalkeepers in the world. Nnadozie beat out stiff competition from Olympic Lyon’s Christiane Endler and Katarzyna Kiedrzynek of Paris SG to claim the coveted individual accolade. “It’s very pleasing because she deserves it and she achieved an exceptional Champions League and not only on penalties,” said…
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Tuesday, revealed that the People Democratic Party, PDP, will lose a sitting governor in the South-South to the Labour Party. In a statement signed by his spokesman, Oluwatosin Osho, the prophet explained that the current PDP management will continue to put the party in more crises, adding that many important people are decamping to another party as a result of the leadership crisis rocking the opposition party. He said; ‘’A sitting governor in PDP will decamp, a prominent governor in South-South will decamp to the Labour party. The current…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited on Monday began offloading 240 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise called petrol, as it stepped up efforts to tackle the worsening nationwide petrol scarcity. As the NNPCL began offloading petrol, filling stations sold the product at an average price of N800 per litre in various locations. One of our correspondents gathered that the 240 million litres of petrol imported into the country came in through five vessels, which were offloaded into five depots on Monday. The South-West Regional Coordinator of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, Ayo Cardoso, confirmed this…
The State Governor of Ogun, Dapo Abiodun, has admonished the church to redeem society by upholding core family values. The governor stated this while he declared open the third session of the 16th Synod of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Egba Diocese, held at Onikolobo, Abeokuta. Abiodun, who was represented at the event by the Head of Service, Mr Kehinde Onasanya, blamed the decay in society on poor parenting and urged the need for godly parenting to ensure stability and justice in society. Abiodun said, “Analysis of political sociologists indicates that the family is the smallest political unit in…
Rico Tice, a well-known Evangelical leader and former Church of England clergyman, has left the denomination in reaction to what he perceives as its growing departure from biblical values, especially concerning same-sex marriage and repentance. Tice, best known for co-writing the evangelism course Christianity Explored and co-founder of Christianity Explored Ministries, cited the denomination’s recent decision to allow priests to bless same-sex couples and its lack of substantive response to concerns laid out by him and five other leaders of CofE-connected parachurch organizations last October. In an interview with Evangelicals Now, Tice, the former senior minister at All Souls, Langham…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released modalities for the checking of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results via SMS. JAMB’s registrar Ishaq Oloyede confirmed the release of the 2024 UTME results in a press conference in Abuja on Monday. How to Check 2024 UTME Results Via SMS To check your 2024 UTME results via SMS, candidates are to follow these steps: 1. Use the phone number you registered with 2. Text UTMERESULT to 55019/66019 3. Wait for the response which will come in the following format: ‘Dear ‘Candidate X’, your result is as follows (and…
The Nigerian Government has suspended the operations of Dana Air. The order followed an incident involving a Dana Air plane at Lagos airport on April 23, which forced aviation authorities to divert flights from local to international airport. The decision was announced by Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo. Details shortly…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ola Olukoyede has disclosed that he made personal efforts to invite a former governor of Kogi State, Mr. Yahaya Adoza Bello to respond to investigations regarding his alleged involvement in money laundering to the tune of N80,246,470,089.88 (Eighty Billion, Two Hundred and Forty Six Million, Four Hundred and Seventy Thousand and Eighty Nine Naira, Eighty Eight Kobo). Olukoyede stated this in Abuja on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 while addressing media executives at the Corporate Headquarters of the EFCC. According to him, he had a telephone conversation with Bello…