The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says it will not condone lateness by candidates to its 2019 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, scheduled for Monday, April 1. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos. NAN reports that a total of 157,631 candidates have been scheduled to ...

An economist from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, Steve Hanke, has ranked Nigeria as the sixth most miserable country in the world. The ranking is titled, Hanke’s Annual Misery Index 2018: The World’s Saddest (And Happiest) Countries. Writing in the Forbes magazine of March 28, the economist notes that Misery Index is calculated using economic indices such as unemployment, ...

The nation may be plunged into a constitutional crisis in about three weeks as the tenure of the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammad Tanko, comes to an end, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. Muhammad was inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari on January 25, 2019 following an order by the Code of Conduct Tribunal that the substantive CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, be ...

There is prospect Nigerians keen on knowing the truth about specific names of contractors that allegedly collected money for electricity projects but failed to execute any projects, may soon have some answers, as the Federal High Court in Lagos has given the go-ahead to Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in its suit seeking: “an order for leave to apply ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Hon. Chief Emeka Aforka, the legislator-elect for Orumba-North state constituency in the incoming 7th legislature has constituted needs assessment committees that would embark on a fact-finding mission to all the communities in the council area to obtain first hand information on the most pressing needs of the people. Aforka stated that the essence of the needs assessment ...

There are strong indications that the All Progressives Congress National Working Committee may have zoned the positions of the Deputy Senate President and  Senate Majority Leader  to the South-South and North-Central respectively. Investigations by Saturday PUNCH revealed that the party through its 21-member NWC had also zoned the Deputy Majority Leader post to the South-East while the Chief Whip and ...

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar says the election of Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Fintiri as governor of Adamawa State is a dawn of a glorious new era for the state. The former Vice President remarks that he is particularly delighted that the PDP came victorious in the governorship election in ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to investigate the Senator-elect for Anambra South, Ifeanyi Ubah, and the Returning Officer, Prof M.N. Umenweke, over criminal allegations levelled against them. The order followed an application for an order of mandamus sought from the court by the senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The lawmaker representing Ihiala 1 state constituency in the outgoing 6th Anambra State House of Assembly Hon. Barr. Chidi Livinus Udemadu says his first term as a lawmaker in the state assembly was more of a learning process to prepare grounds for a more responsive and effective representation. Udemadu explained, “My first term was fair and foul. ...

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmadu Fintiri, has been declared winner of the Adamawa State governorship election. The Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Andrew Haruna, declared the result on Friday morning in Yola after the supplementary election in 44 polling units across 14 local government areas of the state. Haruna said Fintiri polled 376,552 votes to defeat incumbent ...