Day: 6 January 2021

JAMB reopens admission portal

Jide Ige

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says its portal has been reopened for the 2020/2021 admissions. The board said opening the portal gives institutions access to upload names of shortlisted applicants for the 2020/2021 admissions. The spokesperson for JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, confirmed this in a telephone interview on Wednesday. When our correspondent visited the JAMB’s website on Wednesday, the portal had been opened. He quoted the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, as saying that admission processes must go through the Central Admission Processing System for approval. “Of course, long…

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Trump to Supporters: I will never concede to Biden

Benjamin Chukwudaalu, Political Reporter

President Donald Trump on Wednesday told a rally of his supporters outside the White House that he would never concede that he lost the election, as Congress readied to certify Joe Biden’s victory. “I will never give up. We will never concede,” Trump told the cheering crowd. “We will stop the steal.” Wearing “Make America Great Again” caps and sharing biscuits and beers, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters also insisted they would never accept Joe Biden as president as they traveled by bus from near Boston to Washington to protest…

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Congress Invasion: Mayor declares curfew in Washington

Benjamin Chukwudaalu, Political Reporter

Washington, DC, will be under a 6:00 p.m. curfew tonight, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced in a tweeted statement. It will remain in effect until 6:00 a.m. Thursday. The Electoral College certification vote has been paused after protesters incited by Trump breached the Capitol building. “During the hours of the curfew, no person, other than persons designated by the Mayor, shall walk, bike, run, loiter, stand, or motor by car or other mode of transport” within the district, the statement said. The US House and Senate were forced into emergency recess…

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Edo 2019: Ize Iyamu’s deputy disqualified

Benjamin Chukwudaalu, Political Reporter

The Edo State High Court sitting in Benin on Wednesday voided Audu Ganiyu, the All Progressives Congress deputy governorship candidate in the September 19, 2020 governorship election. A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Kadiri Oshoakhemhe, had in a suit No: B/358/20 filed a case against the APC deputy governorship candidate and two others. Delivering judgment in Benin City, the presiding judge, Justice H.A Courage-Ogbebor, said that Ganiyu presented false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission in his Form EC9. Ganiyu was the running mate of Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the…

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Edo jailbreak escapee nabbed in Ogun

Wura Kelani, Crime Reporter

A prisoner who escaped from Edo State during the jailbreak that followed the #EndSARS protest, Obehi Ogbeh, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command in Ifo Local Government Area of the state. Ogbeh who escaped from the white house prison yard in Edo State during the #EndSARS protest last year was arrested on Tuesday in the state while wandering about. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement. Oyeyemi said the prisoner was arrested following information…

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FCMB names an amazon as replacement for Nuru Adam as CEO

Jasmin Ekua, Banking & Finance

First City Monument Bank has appointed its former Chief Financial Officer, Yemisi Edun as acting Managing Director. Edun was asked to step into the shoes of the Managing Director, Adam Nuhu, in acting capacity, who volunteered to go on leave while the bank probes paternity allegation involving a former staff of the bank, Moyo Thomas. It was learnt that the board of the bank met on Wednesday and a decision was reached that the most senior personnel, Edun, should step into the position as acting managing director. Edun holds a…

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