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July, 2023

  • 4 July

    Innoson Motors reacts to JAMB result manipulation accusation

    Innoson Motors has reacted to the revelation by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board that Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma did not score 362 as she had claimed. JAMB on Sunday through a statement by Fabian Benjamin said Mmesoma manipulated her result, stating that she actually had 249 in the exam. In the wake of the claim that she has best result, ...

  • 4 July

    Anambra govt to investigate Mmesoma Ejikeme’s JAMB result

    The Anambra Government has set up a panel of inquiry into the controversy trailing the high score of a candidate from the state, in the recently concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, the Commissioner for Education in the state announced the panel’s assignment in a statement in Awka on Monday. “A panel of inquiry has been set ...

  • 4 July

    Ogun gov to withdraw Keke from riders, and replaced with gas/ electric converted from August

    Ogun is set for Conversion Of Vehicles To Gas, Electricity from August and already, hope is rising in Ogun State. There are indications that the E-mobility and Gas Mobility Programme of the state will take off in the first week of August. Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, on Monday, disclosed The governor said that his administration would take advantage ...

  • 4 July

    Controversy as JAMB withdraws best result, disowns another 380 score in Kaduna

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result of Ejikeme Mmesoma over manipulation of her scores. Mmesoma, who claimed to have scored 362 in the 2023 UTME, was recently awarded a N3 million scholarship by Innocent Chukwuma, Chairman of Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing company . JAMB, in a statement signed by its Head of ...

  • 4 July

    20 Trapped As Hotel Collapses In Abuja

    No fewer than 20 persons are feared trapped in the rubble of a four-storey hotel building which collapsed on Monday in Dape, Life Camp, Abuja. The hotel is owned by Summit Villa Hotel Services. The building was under construction at the time of the collapse. The building, which is under construction, is located in a swampy area called Dape near ...

  • 2 July

    Tope Alabi’s Aboru, Boye exposes her arrogance — Funmi Aragbaye

    Funmi AragbayeVeteran gospel musician, and currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gospel Musician Association of Nigeria, GOMAN, Funmi Aragbaye, has accused Alabi of behaving like ‘she is above God’. ‘Tope Alabi believes she is above everyone and God. She is neither a member of GOMAN nor a member of other gospel associations. She believes she is ...

  • 2 July

    Gov rejects 100 rams Sallah gift, says, “give to the poor in your midst”

    Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has reportedly rejected 100 rams from a philanthropist in the state. His Niger State counterpart, Mohammed Bago, urged Muslims to imbibe the virtues of love, obedience and sacrifice as exemplified by Prophet Ibrahim. It was gathered that the rams were presented to Radda, ahead of Sallah celebration, but he turned down the offer. Locals ...

  • 2 July

    K1 Succeeds late FCMB’s Subomi Balogun As Olori Omo Oba @ Ojude Oba festival

    Popular Fuji maestro, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, widely known by his stage name, KWAM 1 De Ultimate, has been conferred with the chieftaincy title of ‘Olori Omo Oba’ at this year’s concluded Ojude Oba festival in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State. The title was last held by the founder of the First City Monument Bank, the late Chief Subomi Balogun who ...

  • 1 July

    Policewoman explains why she crushed handcuffed suspect with vehicle , Arrested ! IG summons

    ASP Magdalene Osayande is the police at the centre of that drama . She was seeing in a trending video running over a handcuffed middle-aged man with a police vehicle on Thursday. YOUNEWS is aware of her arrest..as she was summoned by “order from above” in Edo State Police Command. But beyond the state level, the acting Inspector-General of Police, ...

  • 1 July

    Lamentations over tomato, pepper scarcity , #1,000 per paint rises to #8,000

    Many are groaning over the skyrocketing increase in prices if pepper and tomatoes in the markers , across Nigeria. A paint of tomato which is roughly about #1,000 before , is now sold for as high as N5,000 in Lekki and N8,000 in Victoria Island. At the Jakande market in Lagos, a basket of tomatoes sold for N50,000 while a ...