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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it has sanctioned some of its accredited officials for demanding that a hijab-wearing candidate at Saturday’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination must remove her hijab.    It was alleged that some JAMB officials at an exam center in Lagos, insisted that …

A group of left-leaning House Democrats is urging its colleagues to oppose the $26 billion aid package for Israel, hoping to maximize the number of “no” votes from the party and send a warning to President Biden about the depth of his political coalition’s discontent over his support for Israel’s …

Screenshot: The Blaze MSNBC host Joy Reid could hardly contain her excitement over the fact that several “DEI officials” are behind the prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The acronym DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Critics of such policies suggest it is outright racism, using skin color or …

A young lady has been sentenced to four months imprisonment for assaulting an official of the Kick-Against-Indiscipline in Lagos after she was arrested for failing to use a pedestrian bridge.   The state Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this on X this evenng.    He shared …

Several camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire at a popular concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday night, killing about 60 people and wounding more than 100, the F.S.B., Russia’s top security agency said. That death toll would make it the deadliest attack in the capital region in more than …

Controversial influencer, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been accused of 10 allegations of rape and sexual assault in Britain, officials have revealed.     The brothers are facing complaints from victims who claim they were drugged and subjected to sexual acts between 2012 and 2015, a judicial source …

The Anambra State Government has reacted to a viral video of a man being brutalised by operatives of the Special Anambra Anti-Touting Squad.   The state government vowed to punish the erring operatives.   In a video shared online on Tuesday, March 12, a man who has been identified as …

In line with her conviction that there is a silver lining behind the threats that climate change poses to Lagos  State, Titi Oshodi, Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has launched #ECOnomyLagos – a platform that seeks to unlock the full potential of circular economy to create more jobs, increase  …

The United States government has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, First lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, and 8 other senior officials.     The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on three entities and 11 people, including the Mnangagwas, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga …

The FBI has launched an urgent manhunt for an Iranian secret intelligence official accused of plotting to assassinate Trump-era officials.     Federal agents say Majid Dastjani Farahani has been trying to recruit allies to murder current and former US government officials as revenge for the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem …