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Ben Ezechime, Enugu The 2025 University Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) commenced on Thursday April 24, 2025, to Monday May 5, 2025 nationwide. Within the period under review, Candidates were assigned specific dates and examination venues while timeframe was provided on their examination slips. As usual, with high expectations, candidates innocuously abided by the rules and guidelines as stipulated by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the body saddled with the responsibility of conducting the age-long examination. According to JAMB, 1.95 million candidates sat for the 2025 examination across the country. It is expected that at least not less than 80% of this…
By Godwin Onyeacholem This month, global attention will be on whistleblowing. On June 23, the international whistleblowers day will be observed with yet another opportunity not only to raise public awareness of whistleblowing as one of the most effective ways of detecting and preventing corrupt practices, but also to affirm it as a fundamental human right instrument of self-expression that is linked with the principles of transparency, accountability and integrity. It’s now two years since the renewed hope agenda of the Tinubu administration kicked off. But nothing has changed for Nigeria on the whistleblowing scene. It’s still where the Buhari…
By Owei Lakemfa The bazaar of partisan politics is in open swing. The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, which has been attracting opposition politicians to itself like magnet, held its National Summit on May 22, 2025 inside the Aso Rock Presidential Palace. The venue is symbolic of the President’s powers and could not be a conducive atmosphere for free debates that should attend a political party summit. The main resolution, which was doubtlessly why the summit held, is the APC declaring “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Sole Presidential Candidate of the APC.” The haste to consecrate the President is …
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Enugu State Government says it has moved Miss Ukamaka Okonkwo, the lucky girl that was rescued from the dungeon of Obi Levi Obieze, the alleged ritualist and kidnapper at Ndiagu Umumba in Ezeagu LGA of the state to a government facility for therapy and rehabilitation. Mrs Ngozi Enih, the Commissioner for Children, Gender Affairs, and Social Development disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu. She said the move was at the instance of Governor Peter Mbah, given the trauma the girl must have passed through. The commissioner said the governor had also awarded a scholarship to Miss…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Most Reverend Callistus Onaga, has charged media practitioners in the country to ensure truth, objectivity and thoroughness in their reportage. Onaga said this in his homily at the Holy Ghost Cathedral Enugu as part of activities to mark the 59th World Communication Day. Speaking on the theme, “Share with gentleness the hope that is in your heart,” the clergy reminded media practitioners that they are agents of communications and should be diplomatic and sensitive in sharing certain information to the people, especially on sensitive issues. “You are agents of Communication; you…
By Mukaila Kareem As someone who spent my early life in rural Nigeria, one of the most surprising things I observed in rural America was vegetable canning. In my experience in the village, okro, tomatoes, and peppers were literally dried in the sun to preserve them for use in the dry season. These same farming products were preserved by canning methods principally due to a stark difference in geography. Plants have evolved strategies shaped by geography. For example, fruits form a biological contract with insects (via nectar) for pollination, and with animals and humans (via fruit sweetness) for seed dispersal.…
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka Police in Anambra State have arrested two suspects alleged to be involved in the kidnap and murder of a female bank manager in Anambra State. Ikengaonline reported that the victim, Ifeoma Onyekwelu, was kidnapped on 13 December, 2024, in Onitsha area of the state. It also gathered that the suspects murdered Onyekwelu after collecting a ransom of fourteen million naira in same Onitsha, the commercial hub of the state. Police Spokesperson in the State, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, in a statement he made available to journalists on Sunday, said the two suspects were arrested on Wednesday May 28,…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu Scores of traders who were on their way from Enugu State to Benue State for business have reportedly been abducted and taken into the forest in Owukoa, Ogbadigb Local Government Area of Benue State. Sources said that the marauders hijacked the commuter bus conveying the traders from Orie Orba Market in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State to neighboring Benue State on Saturday. The victims were said to be on board Benue Links mass transit vehicle along the Obollo Afor–Otukpo highway when they were ambushed by the gunmen. The passengers most of whom were females were…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu One of the memorable moments from the presidential campaign ahead of Nigeria’s 2023 elections featured then ruling party candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the Chatham House in London in December 2022 allocating to leading members of his entourage responsibility for answering various questions from members of the public. For the questions on insecurity, he called on then governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, to address them. At the time, Candidate Bola Tinubu explained that he did that to advertise the versatility and cohesion of his team. Many believed then that asking el-Rufai to respond to those questions show-cased…
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Africa has just welcomed the path-finding Ngugi wa Thiong’o into the pantheon of ancestors. It was on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 the news broke that the revolutionary Kenyan novelist, playwright, essayist and academic has departed the shores of planet earth. Legends never die because they are bound to transmogrify into higher spiritual realms. Ngugi put his hand to good use to ensure that he would never die because he wrote himself into the consciousness of the whole wide world. He was 87 when he passed away but he packed many lifetimes into the great life that…