The 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination result has been released. 81.7 per cent of the candidates made credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics. About 1,274,784 million is 81.7 per cent of the total of 1,560,261 million candidates who sat for the exam. While announcing the release of the WASSCE result on Monday, the Head, Nigeria National Office, Mr Patrick Areghan, explained that there was an appreciable 16.46 per cent improvement, saying the percentage of candidates was 65.24 per cent. Areghan…

Most Revd. Cyril Odutemu, the Archbishop of Bendel Ecclesiastical Province and Bishop of Ughelli Diocese, Anglican Communion, weekend, lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari’s led Government has borrowed the destinies present and future generations of Nigerians away. Odutemu who stated this in a sermon at the funeral service of Mama Hannah Victoria Macaulay, mother of erstwhile Secretary to Delta State, SSG, Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay held at Owhelogbo in Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, said God would hold President Muhammadu Buhari accountable for whatever monies he borrows on judgement day.…

A statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), that the Kogi State government returned N19.3 billion bailout funds allegedly “hidden” by the state to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has been described as “mischievous, false and politically motivated” by the State government. The government gave EFCC a 48-hour ultimatum to retract the statement posted on its Facebook account on November 19 or be prepared for court action. Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, who issued the ultimatum in Lagos, yesterday, assured Kogi indigenes, Nigerians,…

One of the members of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), has raised the alarm over the alleged plan to take his life following the report by the panel that protesters were killed at the Lekki toll gate on October 20, 2020. Adegboruwa raised the alarm in a statement on Monday titled, ‘Nigerians Should Hold Government Responsible If Anything Happens To Me’. The Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel submitted its report to the Lagos State Government,…

Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia has been freed by a Federal High Court in Lagos, from money laundering charges brought against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The trial Justice Ambrose Lewis- Allagoa discharged Ofili-Ajumogobia while granting her application to quash and dismiss the allegations, filed and argued by her counsel, Olawale Akoni (SAN). Akoni told the Lagos court that the application was sequel to an order of Justice Binta Nyako of Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, which, he said, had quashed all the recommendations of the…