Tag: Candidate
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UTME: No candidate’ll sit for examination outside state of registration – JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has assured that no candidate would sit for the board’s examination outside their state of registration. Dr Fabian Benjamin, Public Communication Advisor, JAMB, gave the assurance in a telephone interview with
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2025 Direct Entry not closing on Monday, JAMB clarifies
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) would like to clarify that the 2025 Direct Entry (DE) Registration will not be closing on Monday, April 7, 2025, as being speculated. The registration process, which began on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, will continue until a closing date is announced. Therefore, candidates who wish to register can do…
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Anighoro emerges Emevor Ward Councillorship candidate
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Emevor chapter in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State have chosen Mr Edafe Anighoro as the Councillorship candidate of Emevor Ward 11 in the forthcoming Local Government Council election in the state. Anighoro, a 2008 Library and Information Science graduate of Delta State University Abraka, was chosen as…
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JAMB sanctions officials for asking candidate to remove hijab
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sanctioned some of its accredited officials for demanding that a hijab-wearing candidate at Saturday’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination must remove her headgear. The officials, at one of the examination centres in Lagos, had insisted that removal of the hijab
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INEC speaks on choice of candidate in Saturday’s Bayelsa, Kogi, Imo poll
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has no candidate in Saturday’s Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo governorship election, because it is not a political party. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, said this at a news conference
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UTME: JAMB clears air on purported multiple scheduling of candidate Aminat Suleiman
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cleared itself of multiple scheduling of one Aminat Yahaya Suleiman in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) exercise. Speaking with the newsmen in Ibadan on Saturday, the Public Relations Officer,
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Katsina NNPP sacks deputy guber candidate, party executives
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Katsina State, has sacked its deputy gubernatorial candidate, Muttaqa Rabe-Darma, the state party Chairman, Alhaji Sani Liti, and other top executives. Alhaji Nasiru Usman-Kankia, the Director, media, and publicity of the NNPP, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the decision of the party on Friday in Katsina, saying…
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[Right of Reply] Ovie and Sheriff: Character and Competence should rule Delta State
There has been the view that character and competence should be the basis for knowing who can best deliver on good governance in this year’s governorship election in Delta state, especially between the two leading candidates – the Rt. Hon. Sherriff Oborevwori and DSP Ovie Omo-Agege. A view as this is welcome; it is an…
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PDP to suspend campaign in Imo over attack on candidate’s home
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo, says it will suspend its campaign over attack on the home of Mr. Ikenga Ugochinyere, the party’s House of Representatives candidate for Ideato North/South. This is contained in a statement by Mr. Ray Emeana, the party’s
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JUST IN: Court confirms Mohammed Abacha as Kano PDP guber candidate
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, on Thursday, confirmed Mohammad Sani Abacha, as the duly elected Kano State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. In his judgment, on Thursday evening, the presiding judge, Justice A.M Liman nullified the party’s primary election that produced Sadik Amunu Wali, as Kano PDP governorship candidate and…