17 deputy VCs, deputy registrars, JAMB workers in ICPC custody Board to report six schools over irregular UTME registration, extends deadline for public varsities The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has said the agency uncovered 15,000 candidates who forged their admission letters to be eligible for the national […]

Govt officials, stakeholders renew commitment at 47th Agric Council meeting The Federal Government and the 36 states have renewed their commitment to strengthening the nation’s food systems. The two tiers of government restated their food security commitment at the 47th National Council on Agriculture and Food Security (NCAFS) in Kaduna organised by the Federal Ministry

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday hosted Professor Ademola Adenle, a Nigerian scholar and sustainability expert who recently won the inaugural World Academy of Sciences – the M. S. Swaminathan Award for Food and Peace. The President described the feat as a global honour for Nigeria. Adenle was presented the prize by Indian Prime Minister Narendra

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has mourned the passing of Chief (Mrs.) Esther Olufunke Arthur-Worrey, mother of former Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Fola Arthur-Worrey. Mrs. Arthur-Worrey died on October 29. She was 98. In a statement yesterday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the President

Popular Nigeria’s live band icon, Akinloye Tofowomo (aka Akiin Shuga), has died. He was 50. Shuga, as the singer is widely called, threw the Nigerian entertainment industry into a state of mourning following the announcement of his death yesterday. The Nation learnt that Shuga had died on Wednesday, October 30, in New Brunswick, Canada, barely

Another private refinery is in the works: Backbone Infrastructure Ltd secured $50 billion in funding for the establishment of a new refinery. The project, which is to be setup in Ilaje Area of Ondo State, also include Free Zone Development. This follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Backbone Infrastructure Ltd and the

Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has dismissed comments by the U. S. President Donald Trump alleging a Christian genocide in Nigeria. Addressing reporters in Abuja yesterday, Adegbite, who also chairs the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Lagos Chapter, said while Christian communities have suffered greatly from terrorist attacks,