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The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has explained that the extra money being paid by candidates was a charge by operators of Computer Based Test (CBT) centres to cover the high cost of fuel. He therefore denied that the examination body increased the fees for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for 2024. He made the clarification when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education at the National Assembly on Wednesday. He claimed that JAMB only made the payment collection process easier so that the operators wouldn’t take advantage of the…

Liverpool will play Fulham, while Chelsea will face Middlesbrough in the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup. Jurgen Klopp’s side thrashed West Ham 5-1 on Wednesday evening to reach the last four, while Fulham won a penalty shootout at Everton on Tuesday. Chelsea also beat Newcastle on penalties in their quarter-final, while Middlesbrough won 3-0 at Port Vale to set up a repeat of the 1998 final. The two-legged ties will be played in the weeks commencing January 8 and 22. Liverpool are aiming to reach their 14th final and claim their 10th success in the competition they first triumphed in…

Liverpool cruised into the Carabao Cup semi-finals with a dominant performance against West Ham at Anfield. Once Dominik Szoboszlai had driven a superb 25-yard effort into the bottom corner after 28 minutes, Liverpool’s place in the last four was never in doubt. Curtis Jones added a second 11 minutes after the restart when he deceived Alphonse Areola into thinking he was going to cut a cross back from the edge of the six-yard box and instead drove a shot through the Hammers’ keeper’s legs. Cody Gakpo was given too much space to fire home his eighth goal of the season…

Harry Kane stayed on course to break the record for Bundesliga goals in a season with his 21st strike as Bayern Munich beat Wolfsburg. Jamal Musiala headed Bayern ahead from Thomas Muller’s cross. England captain Kane then smashed in a wonderful effort from 25 yards out in only his 15th German top-flight game. Maximilian Arnold’s long-range strike just before the break gave Wolfsburg hope, but he was denied an injury-time equalizer by goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. Kane is the first player to score as many as 21 Bundesliga goals in his first 15 games in the competition. Record-breaking Kane scores as…

A French court has sentenced Rwandan doctor, Sosthene Munyemana to 24 years in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority. The 68-year-old was found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity, and aiding in a conspiracy to prepare these crimes. His lawyers plan to appeal the verdict. The court found Munyemana on Wednesday guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity, and participation in a conspiracy to prepare these crimes, the Guardian UK reported. His sentencing was a result of aiding in drafting a letter endorsing the massacre of the Tutsi minority, along with setting up roadblocks to…

Nigeria’s total domestic debt stock has risen by 133.95 percent to N51.96 trillion as of the end of 2023, Punch News reported. The Director-General of the Debt Management Office, Patience Oniha, revealed. Oniha revealed that the Federal Government raised N7.04 trillion in new domestic borrowing in 2023 while speaking to CNBC Africa on the sidelines of the discussions for the creation of the African Debt Managers Initiative Network in Abuja under the direction of the African Development Institute of the African Development Bank. Oniha said, “I am happy to say that in 2023, the new domestic borrowing was N7.04tn, and…

Seyi Makinde, Oyo State Governor, threatened to fight back with the instrument of office if various cases instituted against the enthronement of the new Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Ghandi Olaoye, were not withdrawn from the courts. The stool became a subject of legal tussle when one of the contestants to the throne, Prince Kabir Olaoye, approached the court, challenging Oba Olaoye’s emergence and the process that brought him to power. On October 25, an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ogbomoso nullified the selection process that produced Ghandi as the new Soun and ordered the conduct of a fresh process.…

The House of Representatives on Tuesday called for an urgent need for the Federal Government to issue Value-Added Tax (VAT) and Import Duty Exemption Certificate (IDEC) waivers to contractors handling critical power projects for the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). The resolution was passed by the House Committee on Public Accounts Committee (PAC), chaired by Rep. Bamidele Salam, during the resumed investigative hearing into the ‘Accelerated Transmission-Distribution Interface Transmission Lines/Sub-stations’ contracts worth $231,004,002.8 and N18,264,411,235.66 awarded since 2015. While briefing the Committee, representatives of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and the contractors explained that all the contracts have a…

Newcastle United endured a Stamford Bridge nightmare as Chelsea reached the Carabao Cup semi-finals after a penalty shootout. Callum Wilson’s 16th-minute goal looked to be sending Newcastle into the last four until substitute Mykhailo Mudryk pounced on the veteran defender’s error deep into stoppage time to send the game to spot-kicks. The 33-year-old, who has suffered a dip in form recently, then fired Newcastle’s second penalty wide, and once keeper Djordje Petrovic saved Matt Ritchie’s spot-kick, Chelsea had gone from the despair of contemplating defeat to the sheer elation of a place in the last four. It was cruel on…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Robert Clarke, has described the 1999 Constitution as the cornerstone of the nation’s problems. Clarke stated this on Tuesday while reacting to the truce reached as President Bola Tinubu once again intervened in the Rivers State crisis. “The 1999 Constitution is the cornerstone of our problems. In every area of political line, especially in the area of election, when the constitution restricts those who can come and be voted for, or who can vote for, something must be wrong with that constitution. The problem today is not what the President says,” he said while answering…