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Admission: JAMB Screens 176 Underage Candidates With High Scores In 2025 UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has screened 176 exceptional underage candidates who scored high marks in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The screening exercise, designed to ensure that only outstanding and well-prepared candidates below the age of 16 are considered for admission into tertiary institutions for the 2025/2026 academic session, was […]

Bloomberg Names Ronaldo First Billionaire Footballer

Cristiano Ronaldo has become football’s first billionaire player, according to financial information and media firm Bloomberg. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which tracks the world’s richest people based on their networth, has measured the 40-year-old Portugal and Al-Nassr striker’s wealth for the first time. The valuation takes into account career earnings, investments and endorsements and said […]

Nigeria’s Economy Grows By 3.9% In H1 As World Bank Projects 4.4% Growth

Nigeria’s economy recorded a 3.9 per cent growth in the first half of 2025, reflecting the positive impact of ongoing fiscal and monetary reforms, according to the Nigeria Development Update (NDU) released on Wednesday by the World Bank. The multilateral institution, however, cautioned that the gains from the reforms of the Tinubu administration were yet […]

Sowore Challenges Obi, Other Igbo Leaders To Join Peaceful March To Aso Rock Over Kanu’s Release

Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has called on prominent political and traditional leaders from the South-East region to take decisive action towards securing the release of detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Sowore, who made the declaration in a post on his verified social […]

Alleged N33.2bn Fraud: EFCC Seeks Adjournment To Regularise Witness List Against Dasuki

Justice Charles Agbaza of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned the trial of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd), to October 31, 2025, to allow the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) update its list of witnesses and for continuation of trial. Dasuki is facing prosecution by […]