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JAMB directs candidates with biometric issues to write UTME in Abuja

PowokudiJanuary 5, 2023January 5, 2023

by PowokudiJanuary 5, 2023January 5, 20230

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed candidates with biometric challenges during registration for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to proceed...

Business

Court declares naming of Abuja streets, roads by AMMC illegal

PowokudiJanuary 3, 2023January 3, 2023

by PowokudiJanuary 3, 2023January 3, 20230

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has declared that neither the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, AMMC, nor the Federal Capital Development Authority,...

Featured

NBA in Abuja honours ex-president, Akpata, Governor Tambuwal, others

PowokudiJanuary 3, 2023January 3, 2023

by PowokudiJanuary 3, 2023January 3, 20230

The newly inaugurated Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Garki branch, Abuja, has honoured some eminent Nigerians in the legal profession, as part of its awards ceremony...

Crime

New Year: Bandits abduct four Abuja residents

PowokudiJanuary 3, 2023

by PowokudiJanuary 3, 20230

Bandits on Sunday, January 1, 2023, attacked the Kubwa area of the nation’s capital and reportedly abducted four persons. This followed the President, Major General...

Metro

Occupants of Abuja IDP camp cry out “Our children now sleep in open space”

PowokudiJanuary 3, 2023January 3, 2023

by PowokudiJanuary 3, 2023January 3, 20230

Say camp demolished without prior notice About 3,000 people displaced from Durumi Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camp located at Durumi, Area 1 in the Federal...

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Abuja court bars DSS, others from arresting Emefiele

PowokudiDecember 30, 2022December 30, 2022

by PowokudiDecember 30, 2022December 30, 20220

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, on Thursday, barred the Department of State Services and the Inspector General of Police from arresting and...

Business Crime

EFCC invites bids for forfeited houses, lands in Abuja, Lagos, P’Harcourt

PowokudiDecember 30, 2022December 30, 2022

by PowokudiDecember 30, 2022December 30, 20220

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced the auction of 160 forfeited houses, plots of land and other properties. The EFCC, on Wednesday, released details...

Business

Bernard Arnault becomes world’s richest man, topples Elon Musk

PowokudiDecember 28, 2022December 28, 2022

by PowokudiDecember 28, 2022December 28, 20220

Bernard Arnault, the CEO and chair of LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) is now the world’s richest man after toppling Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk. According...

Politics

I’ll stay away from Abuja when I leave office — President Buhari

PowokudiDecember 26, 2022December 28, 2022

by PowokudiDecember 26, 2022December 28, 20220

I will stay away from Abuja when I leave office so no one will give me problems anymore says President Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on...

Crime Metro

Jogger killed by ‘Phone Snatchers’ in Abuja buried in Plateau

PowokudiDecember 26, 2022December 28, 2022

by PowokudiDecember 26, 2022December 28, 20220

Hundreds of people on Monday attended the funeral prayer of the late Usman Ahmad Hassan, who was reportedly stabbed to death on Sunday while having…...

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Nigerians to save foreign exchange as Buhari commission hospital in Abuja

PowokudiDecember 21, 2022December 21, 2022

by PowokudiDecember 21, 2022December 21, 20220

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, commissioned a state-of-the-art speciality eye hospital in Abuja. In his remarks, Mr President commended the management of the Indian-owned hospital for...

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NACAT takes campaign against human trafficking, corruption to Abuja villages

PowokudiDecember 21, 2022December 21, 2022

by PowokudiDecember 21, 2022December 21, 20220

As part of efforts to checkmate social vices and in fulfilment ofits Corporate Social Responsibility, Network Against Corruption and Human Trafficking (NACAT) on Monday had...

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Train accident averted in Abuja, residents seek intervention

PowokudiDecember 20, 2022December 20, 2022

by PowokudiDecember 20, 2022December 20, 20220

On Sunday, a train accident was averted at the rail tracks located at Chikakore Kubwa, The PUNCH reports. A Sienna vehicle conveying a family of five broke...

Metro

Worries over ‘missing’ Christmas trees, decoration at Abuja Unity Fountain

PowokudiDecember 20, 2022December 20, 2022

by PowokudiDecember 20, 2022December 20, 20220

Fun seekers and residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have expressed worries over absence of Christmas trees and decoration at the Unity Fountain...

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