Concerns as over 1.5 million UTME candidates score below 200
VDM to be released today, faces multiple charges in court Thursday
Fresh concerns over budget 2025 as oil price drops to $59 per barrel
$3bn refinery fraud: Immigration flags passports of suspects
Student loan: Minister meets VCs as NANS blocks Lagos-Ibadan highway
516,212 get N53.98b as student loan
Bauchi to probe killing of 19 hunters during patrol
Babcock threatens suit, says ‘missing’ student left school unlawfully
Naira appreciates to N1,600/$ in parallel market
Vatican to cut phone signal during conclave
House Republicans propose $1,000 fee to apply for asylum in US
Trump administration offers $1,000 to migrants who self-deport
Germany’s new chancellor, Merz, unveils cabinet ahead of swearing-in
ECOWAS Court to member states: bring justice closer to people
Gabon honours Elumelu for championing youth entrepreneurship
DID YOU KNOW?
- An estimated 50% of all gold ever mined on Earth came from a single plateau in South Africa: Witwatersrand.
- The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.”
Tinubu approves plan to attract $122bn power investments
Tinubu swears in NASS Commission’s chairman, members, two perm secs
Nigeria leads move to provide power to 300m Africans – Abbas
Senate resumes to begin work on Tax Reform Bills, Rivers crisis, insecurity, others
Insecurity: Reps, Benue gov clash as NASS resumes today
Reps panel lauds Lagos-Calabar highway’s progress
House of Reps sued over probe of bank accounts
Businessman remanded in Kirikiri over $2.6m Crypto, N3.5bn fraud
8,000 terrorists, bandits killed under Tinubu – Defence minister
Matawalle hails Tinubu’s reforms, says Nigeria’s future bright
FEC approves bill to establish National Cocoa Management Board
FEC okays N787.14b, $651.7m for roads in 13 states
Nigeria, others target 10 offshore drilling projects – Report
Only 1.16% of underage UTME candidates show exceptional ability — JAMB
NDPC to resolve data breach dispute with Meta
FG joins Asian Infrastructure bank, sets up cocoa board
FG woos retail investors with savings bond offer
Fed Govt partners U.S. hospital to establish two liver transplant centres
Crisis In N/West Devt Commission Over Scholarship Scheme
NUC officials risk jail over alleged contempt
RMRDC, Defence HQ partner on food security
Artisans to mentor students as FG plans technical colleges upgrade
NIPOST sets July deadline to end cash payments
NAHCON’s advance team leaves for preliminaries in Makkah
FAAN eyes increased stake in $185bn cargo market
NYSC DG warns corps members against involvement in politics
Efforts to discredit Seyi Tinubu politically motivated – NAPS president
Ogun indigene clinches CU’s top doctoral prizes
Julius Berger wins construction award at NUJ
Equity market gains N413bn as Beta Glass leads rally
Investors plan $500m local industrialisation fund
Julius Berger’s profit drops by 65%
NAHCO grows PAT to N4.3bn
NNPCL team formidable, strong, says Dangote
Retailers decry selective reopening of border filling stations
NMA rejects casualisation policy
Afenifere hails Sanwo-Olu for defending Tinubu’s record
Anti-Tinubu coalition: North alone can’t decide 2027 presidency — Tanko Yakassai, ACF
El-Rufai placeholder for Atiku in SDP – Galadima
Sanwo-Olu urges ECOWAS court to promote justice
Makinde moves five commissioners in fresh cabinet shake-up
Ibas urges military officers to find solutions to insecurity
Public health fears mount amid water crisis in Lokoja
Bauchi urges collective action to combat malaria
Boko Haram: Borno to shut IDP camp over rising gangsterism, prostitution
We’ll battle FGM, poor sanitation in Ekiti, says NOA
Kano LGs to contribute N670m for Emir Sanusi’s vehicles
OCP-Africa returns to Bauchi fields for soil testing, fertiliser production
NSCDC’s mining marshals shut illegal site in Kaduna
NIWA, LASWA, Brass Marine launch safety campaign on Lagos waterways
Bauchi lawmaker subsidises shuttle services, 105 NECO students fees
Farms destroyed as oil spill ravages Rivers community
Kogi community initiates 103 into womanhood at annual festival
25 Killed As Bandits, Vigilantes Clash In Bauchi
Kogi commercial motorcyclists protest levy hike, police harassment
Gunmen intercept commercial bus, kill two, kidnap four in Benue
Five Nasarawa children suffocate inside vehicle
Landlord’s son hacks 22-year-old tenant to death in Ondo
Policeman Under Fire For ‘Lacing Ganduje’s Shoe’
TODAY IN HISTORY
- On this day in 1954, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes. The British athlete took 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds to cover 1609 meters. The current record was set by Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj who ran the distance at 3:43.13 on on July 7, 1999