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24-year-old student at the Nigerian Law School, Onyinye Omenugha, has won the prestigious Princess Diana Award, which annually honours outstanding young persons in the United Kingdom and around the globe. Instituted in 1999 with erstwhile British Prime Minister Gordon as the board chairman, the award was set up in honour of Princess Diana famous for […]

*JAMB To Prosecute, Withdraw Result Of Anambra Candidate, Gives Reason The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Sunday said it would withdraw the result of a certain Ejikeme Mmesoma for manually inflating her result and announcing herself as the top scorer for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. According to a statement issued by the […]

The presidency has vehemently dismissed the conclusions drawn by the European Union (EU) regarding the 2023 general elections. Special Adviser on communications, strategy and special duties to President Bola Tinubu, Dele Alake, in a statement on Sunday expressed strong objections to the EU’s alleged attempts to discredit the elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral […]

More than 100 protesters have taken to the streets of Lausanne as protests sparked by the killing of 17-year-old French-Algerian Nahel M. by police in France spread to Switzerland. Although nowhere near the scale of the protests in France, protesters attacked shops and police forces, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails on Saturday evening. “Echoing the […]

[catholicnewsagency] A Texas judge has dismissed a Carmelite monastery’s civil lawsuit against Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson. Without comment, Tarrant County District Court Judge Don Cosby, sitting in Fort Worth, issued a ruling June 30 granting the Fort Worth Diocese’s motion to dismiss the monastery’s complaint, which accused Olson of theft, defamation, and abuse of […]

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has given a reason for the non-payment of the June 2023 allowance of corps members across the country. The management also apologised to corp members over the delay in the payment, saying that it is aware of their worries and agitations over the delay in the payment of their […]

A legal practitioner, Mr Tunde Afe-Babalola, SAN, says his father’s disciplinary approach contributed tremendously to his success in his endeavour. Tunde, son of the legal luminary, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, made this known on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja The lawyer, who recalled that his father would […]

By Feliicty Enyinnia INTRODUCTION A person’s name is his identity. Names are generally given to people from birth. However, bearing a particular name is not immutable. It is subject to change by occurrence of certain event(s). For instance, it is the practice in Nigeria and in most commonwealth countries for women to change their surnames […]

Equities Investors Have ‘Fun’ as NGX Crosses N33trn Equities investors have fun as Nigerian Exchange (NGX) market capitalisation crossed N33 trillion, according to data from the local bourse. The sustained bargain hunting continues amidst foreign investors’ planned re-entry into the Nigerian markets after the clouds of dust surrounding the devaluation of the local currency settle. […]

NERC Yet to Give Directive ON Electricity Tariff Hike – IBEDC Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) has said that Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) has yet to give a directive on the new electricity tariff earlier scheduled to commence on July 1. The Public Relations Officer of IBEDC, Ms Busolami Tunwase, stated this in an […]

No Plan to Hike Petrol Price to N700– IPMAN The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and Association of Distributors and Transporters of Petroleum Products (ADITOP) have denied plans to increase petrol price to N700 per litre. The Associations in an interview with the News Agency in Abuja on Saturday, dismissed reports of the […]

Chairman of social media platform Twitter, Elon Musk has announced new twitter policies for users, following complaints of the app crashing earlier today. The new policy Elon says ” will address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation” The policy will place a temporary limit on how many posts users can view a day. […]