USSD Debt: NCC WEILDS BIG AXE OVER 9 BANKS, DIRECTS TELCOS TO DISCONNECT THEM

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has authorised telecommunications companies (Telcos) to disconnect the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) codes assigned to nine financial institutions.

Uzodinmma Vs Okorocha: ROCHAS ACCUSES IMO GOV OF CLAIMING OWN ROAD PROJECTS

• * Says Imo APC Stakeholders Not Part Of Gov Uzodinmma's Weekend Party Meeting

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11

As the political feud between the Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinmma, and former governor Rochas Okorocha continues to linger, Senator Okorocha has raised the alarm that the governor was claiming some of the road projects initiated by his administration, allegedly passing them off as part of his infrastructural achievements.

V Pship: ANYIM HAILS OKOWA, DESCRIBES HIM AS BRILLIANT, COOL-HEADED LEADER

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Former President of the Senate, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has congratulated the governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa on his emergence as the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 presidential election.

Vaccine Misinformation On Facebook Is Subject To Tighter Restrictions

By Chinua Albert Okafor @The_RoboRai

Meta, Facebook's new alias, announced today that it will impose stricter policies against misinformation about vaccines targeted at kids (via Engadget) as the FDA recently approved Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11.

Value-based Policing: ACTORS GUILD EXCO VISITS POLICE FORCE SPOKESMAN, CSP MUYIWA ADEJOBI

• * Partners NPF For Standardization Of Police Portrayals, Promotion Of Values

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

In a bid to standardize the portrayal of the Nigeria Police Force in movies and other creative content produced by the Nigeria movie and entertainment industry, the Police has partnered with the leadership of the Nigeria Guild of Actors, and other relevant associations in the Nigeria entertainment industry.

VARSITY PROFESSOR UNVEILS AI SYSTEM FOR EASE OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH WRITING

By Our Reporter

In what is being described as a major breakthrough in academic research support, Thesisprofs has announced the official launch of Thesis SpeedWrite, a structured AI-powered academic writing system developed to simplify and reorganise the way students and academics approach thesis, dissertation, and academic project writing.

VCDP, IFAD TRAINS WOMEN ON GARRI PROCESSING IN TARABA STATE

By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent, in Jalingo)

Value Chain Development VCDP/FG IFAD, assisted in Taraba state, through FOJIBAJEN WOMEN CASSAVA PROCESSOR, on Wednesday, assisted in training Cassava women farmers on Garri processing in Taraba State.

VETERAN ACTRESS, HILDA DOKUBO, APPOINTED LABOUR PARTY CHAIRMAN IN RIVERS STATE

The Labour party (LP) has appointed Nollywood Actress, Hilda Dokubo as the chair of its three-man steering committee in Rivers state.

VETERAN JOURNALIST, NAJEEM JIMOH, AT HIS STRATEGIC 70

By Tunde Akanni, Ph.D

Somewhat subtly, what used to be a household name in the hey days of print journalism in Nigeria, well ahead of the ceaseless disruption by the internet, has extended the frontiers of his influence into conventional broadcasting. He did it a couple of years before he inched up to seven decades. It was strategic. No less strategic is the choice of the nomenclature. Citizen Radio. “Feel free to be part of this in all respects”, Alhaji has urged me and a number of people I know.

VICE CHANCELLOR ARRAIGNED BY EFCC FOR N260M FRAUD

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC today, Tuesday, October 12, 2021, arraigned a former Vice-Chancellor of Federal University Gusau, Professor Magaji Garba before Justice Maryam Hassan Aliyu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Jabi Abuja on a five-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretense and forgery,

Violence At PDP Meeting: EKWEREMADU CONDEMNS ATTACK ON SUPPORTERS, POLITICAL ASSOCIATES IN ENUGU

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has condemned, in strong terms, the violence that marred the expanded stakeholders meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Aninri Local Government Area (LGA) of Enugu State at the weekend as well as the violent attack on his political supporters and associates during the said meeting at Ndeaboh.

Visiting The US: THE CASE FOR IMO STATE AND UZODIMMA

By Ugorji O. Ugorji

After three years of working in Hopeville (Imo State), I got permission to attend a security conference and also see my family in the US. This is the longest I have stayed away from Obama Country since the age of 16 when I went there as a student.

VOICE, DATA SERVICES AFFECTED BY UNDERSEA CABLE CUTS RESTORED

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced that services have now been restored to approximately 90% of their peak utilization capacities following the disruption on March 14, 2024, which affected data and voice services due to cuts in undersea fibre optics along the coasts of Cote d'Ivoire and Senegal.

VON DG, OSITA OKECHUKWU, PLEADS WITH IPOB TO RESCIND WEEKLY LOCKDOWN OF SOUTH EAST

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftain in Enugu state and the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Chief Osita Okechukwu, has passionately pleaded with the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) to review their weekly Monday lockdown directive imposed on the South East and South-South states of Delta and Rivers, tagged "Ghost Monday".

Vote Buying: GROUP ASKS INEC, SECURITY AGENCIES TO PROBE, PROSECUTE OFFENDERS

By Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (Bauchi State Correspondent)

A non-governmental organization under the auspices of the Center for Community Action for Peace and Development (CCAPAD) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to investigate and prosecute those involved in vote buying in the just concluded presidential and gubernatorial elections in the country.

Vote Buying: ICPC ARRESTS 9 PERSONS IN AKWA IBOM, OSUN, ONDO, BORNO, SOKOTO

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested nine persons for vote buying in Osun, Ondo, Borno, Akwa Ibom and Sokoto States during the Presidential and National Assembly Elections on Saturday.

Voters Vin Number Saga: We ARE NOT PART OF YOUR FAILURE, CAMPAIGN TO WIN ELECTION....APC Tells PDP

• * We Have On Record Activities Of Your Officials, PDP Alleges

By David Odama (In Lafia, Nasarawa State)

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State, on Tuesday, challenged the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) to work toward winning the next months' elections rather than heaping their failure on the governor, government and APC in the state.

VOX POPULI, VOX DEI?

By Bolanle Bolawole

“There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. I am the state” – France’s King Louis XIV.

WAEC RELEASES 2024 WASSCE RESULTS, GIVES NO HINT ABOUT PERFORMANCE LEVEL

• * How Candidates Can Check Their Exam Scores

By Anabel Ibeabuchi (Education Reporter)

Anxious candidates in the last May/June West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Examination can now heave a sigh of relief as the regional exam body has released the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, results.

WAEC, NECO EMULATE JAMB, ABOLISHES PEN- ON-PAPER EXAMS TO CURB MALPRACTICES

• * Says Exams Will Be Computer Based From 2026
• Outline Stringent Measures To Frustrate Corrupt Students, Exam Officers, Parents, School Authorities

By Tayo Oguntade (Education Correspondent)

In a swift move to save the education system in Nigeria and by extension, within the West African region, the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the National Examination Council (NECO) have resolved that the Pen-on-paper examination model which has existed since the inception of the two exam bodies will stop in 2025.