Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the EFCC, recovered about N232 billion and hundreds of millions of Naira more in other currencies between May 2023 and May 2024, an internal document of the agency seen by PREMIUM TIMES has revealed. The document summarises cases investigated and the recoveries made by the agency within the one year, but it … Read more
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday, July 22, a batch of petitions related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam, NEET-UG 2024, which was held on May 5. The voluminous data of over 32 lakh candidates from 4,750 centres was not released in a cumulative format but in a drop-down menu for each … Read more
The Supreme Court on Monday said that the paper leak in the conduct of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG 2024 was an ‘admitted fact’, and hinted at a re-examination for ‘wrongdoers’. The top court that began hearing a series of petitions today concerning the re-conduct of the NEET UG also directed the … Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has received 14,000 petitions from the public in the last one year, said the chairperson of the commission, Ola Olukoyede. A statement released by the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, on Tuesday, said Mr Olukoyede disclosed the number during a meeting with a special envoy … Read more
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he disagrees with a member of his caucus who says he wants to see more restrictions on abortion and would vote against same-sex marriage if there’s a future bill on the issue in Parliament. In an interview with Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who hosts a podcast called Uncommons, Alberta Conservative … Read more
The Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has begun moves to stop the plan by the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, from marrying off 100 orphaned girls. She said on Monday that she had reported the case to the police by petitioning the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, … Read more
