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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Monday, released the minimum Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, cut-off marks approved by universities across Nigeria for the 2026 admission exercise. The cut-off marks were announced following the 2026 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions held in Abuja. According to the approved list, Pan-Atlantic University fixed the highest minimum cut-off mark at 220. Several institutions, including the University of Benin, University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, University of Nigeria, Covenant University, Air Force Institute of Technology, and Obafemi Awolowo University, adopted 200 as their minimum benchmark. JAMB stated that the approved…
Former Kano State governor and 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has revealed that one of his daughters urged him to work with Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, during the 2023 general election. Kwankwaso made the disclosure on Monday while speaking during an interview on Arise Television’s Prime Time programme. According to him, many political leaders in the country have failed to understand the mindset and aspirations of young Nigerians, especially in the era of social media. He said younger Nigerians are more interested in competent leadership than issues of religion…
Barcelona midfielder Gavi has expressed his support for Lionel Messi-led Argentina as the frontrunners to win the 2026 World Cup. The Spaniard played 77 minutes in the El Clasico at Camp Nou, where Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 2-0 to secure the Spanish title for the second consecutive year. In a conversation with D Sports, as shared by All About Argentina on X, reporters asked him about the forthcoming World Cup. The 21-year-old was unable to participate in Spain’s Euro 2024 triumph due to injury but is now prepared to represent La Roja at the World Cup next month. Although Spain…
A group of aspirants and stakeholders from the Ekiti bloc of the Ekiti, Irepodun, Isin and Oke-Ero Federal Constituency of Kwara State has appealed to the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to allow the zone to produce the party’s candidate for the House of Representatives seat ahead of the 2027 general elections. The stakeholders, under the umbrella of Concerned Aspirants and Stakeholders, Ekiti Bloc, said the appeal was anchored on the principles of justice, fairness, and equity, arguing that the bloc had never produced a representative for the constituency since Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999. In an…
Something felt painful about watching two African presidents exchange comments that reduced millions of their citizens to petty supremacy arguments. It started when President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria tried to defend the hardship Nigerians were facing because of rising fuel prices and economic reforms. While speaking in Bayelsa State, he told Nigerians to be thankful because they were “better off” than people in Kenya and some other African countries. His comment immediately drew reactions. Beyond the hardship at home, many Nigerians were angry that their president had chosen another African country as the yardstick for measuring suffering. Many Kenyans saw…
Northern political heavyweight, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has revealed that his daughter lobbied him to align with Peter Obi as far back as the 2023 general election. This was years before the two men eventually joined forces under the Nigeria Democratic Congress. Kwankwaso made the disclosure in an interview on Arise TV on Monday, using the anecdote to illustrate what he described as a widening gap between Nigeria’s ageing political elite and a younger generation with fundamentally different political instincts. “Even in the 2023 election, in my own house, my own daughter was telling me to go and work with Peter Obi.…
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos Waste Management Authority, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, has stated that its long-term goal is to transition Lagos towards a zero-waste economy, where waste generation would be minimised while maximising resource recovery, recycling and reuse. Gbadegesin called for the need to update Lagos State’s Waste Management Master Plan to align with emerging realities and the growing demands of a rapidly expanding megacity. This was contained in a statement on Friday by the Director of Public Affairs at LAWMA, Mukaila Sanusi, obtained by The PUNCH. Gbadegesin stated that the state had operated a rolling waste…
Global technology companies are accelerating workforce reductions and internal overhauls as artificial intelligence moves fast from experimental tool to core operating infrastructure, triggering one of the most significant labour shifts in the sector in years. The latest move came last week, when US cloud security group Cloudflare announced plans to cut about 20 per cent of its global workforce, affecting more than 1,100 employees. The company, which also has a presence in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, said the decision was linked to a rapid surge in AI adoption across its operations, noting internal usage of AI tools had risen by…
The company behind the robot lawn mower that ran me over has changed its tune. Yarbo now plans to completely remove the remote backdoor access that could have let bad actors reprogram the robot over the internet. Yarbo customers will be able to decide whether that feature even gets installed in the first place, co-founder Kenneth Kohlmann pledges to The Verge.Yarbo had already promised on Friday that it would tackle many security issues head-on, closing the holes that let security researcher Andreas Makris easily hijack any of the bladed robots from the other side of the globe, while also exposing…
With lawmakers on the US Senate Banking Committee set to consider a markup on a cryptocurrency market structure bill this week, some Democrats are holding the line — and potentially their votes — on ethics provisions.The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY), passed by the US House of Representatives in July 2025, is scheduled for a markup in the Banking Committee on Thursday after months of delays due to concerns about language on stablecoin yield, tokenized equities, ethics and more issues related to the crypto industry. Although the Senate Agriculture Committee passed its version of the bill in a January…
