According to Bashir Ahmad Danmalam, the Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, the cost of petroleum products has dropped at depots across Nigeria. This decrease has brought relief to consumers, but it also highlights their financial difficulties. Danmalam attributes the current price drop to a decline in consumer demand due…
Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was embroiled in a controversy over the highest score in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), has been banned by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for three years. The examination board has also canceled Ejikeme’s results. She has been accused of engaging in a criminal act and of…
The Mayor of a small town in Southern Mexico entered into holy matrimony with a female reptile in a traditional rite to bring good fortune to his people, amidst clapping and dancing by onlookers Victor Hugo Sosa, Mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a town of Indigenous Chontal people in the Tehuantepec isthmus of Mexico, took…
An Anambra girl named Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma has been accused of falsely claiming to be the top scorer in the 2023 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination. Miss Mmesoma, who attends Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, denies the allegations. Despite this, the JAMB board has opened an investigation into the matter to determine…
By Chibuzor Emejor Undoubtedly, the importance of an accurate, acceptable and reliable population and housing census cannot be over-emphasised. To ensure holistic national development, an accurate census is very indispensable. The conduct of a census helps to generate demographic data for national planningwhich in turn ensures even development of all sectors of the country. President…
As the Nigerian economy continues to struggle, President Bola Tinubu has called for citizens to make sacrifices in order to help the country recover. These sacrifices have included the removal of subsidies on petrol, a merging of foreign exchange rates, and an impending increase in electricity tariffs. Shettima, Buhari and Tinubu However, many citizens are…
The Renewed Hope APC Rivers State, under the Able leadership of Hon. Chief Tony Okocha KSC JP DSSRS held an Emergency Stakeholders meeting in Port Harcourt, on the June 21, 2023, to deliberate on issues of great concern. At the end of the well attended Expansive Stakeholders meeting, the underlisted resolutions were unanimously reached: Nobody…
By Godknows Igali On that Saturday morning, June 17, 2023, the sky was exceptionally sunny in the middle of the rainy season over Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, the wettest of all of Nigeriaโs 36 states. Though the weather was sparklingly bright, a most sombre mood which had attracted not less than 5,000 young men…
In a historic move, Dutch King Willem-Alexander has apologised for the Netherlandsโ involvement in slavery, declaring his personal and moral guilt in a speech at the annual โKeti Kotiโ celebration event in Amsterdam. This day marks the occasion of the abolition of slavery in Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean 150 years ago. Thousands of descendants…
