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By Okerafor Athanasius, Jalingo The first-ever Taraba State International Investment Summit, also known as Taravest, will kick off May 21, 2025 in Jalingo, the State capital. Chairman of the main Committee, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, stated this while answering questions from journalists shortly after inspecting the level of work done at the venue of the summit, the T.Y Danjuma House, Jalingo. Hon. Elumelu, who was Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Power, told journalists that the summit will feature prospective investors from both local and international arenas who will be deliberating on sectors ranging from Agriculture, Energy, Industrialization and others. On…

The results of 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have been released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The results of 39,834 candidates have been withheld, the board said today. JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed these during the official release of the 2025 UTME results, at JAMB headquarters, Bwari. The registrar added that the seizure of results was on account of suspected examination malpractices. About 80 persons, he said, were under investigation for exam-related offences.

By our reporter A month to his 65th birthday, businessman,lawyer and alleged fraudster, Fred Ajudua, heads back to prison following a Supreme Court verdict today. The apex court overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal that granted bail to Ajudua, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and standing trial for allegedly defrauding a German company of $1 million over 30 years ago, when the accused was still a young man. In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court held that the Appeal Court erred in granting Ajudua bail and ordered him returned to correctional…

By Ademola Adegoke, Abuja Head of Civil Service of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Mrs. Grace Adayilo, has saluted Minister of FCT, Barrister Nyesom Wike, who recently received the Quinquinnal Award for Governance and Infrastructure 2024. In a statement from her office, Mrs. Adayilo asserted that the Minister's leadership has indeed exploded in hugely phenomenal transformation of the nation's capital, the prioritization of staff welfare and restoration of the Abuja Masterplan. The Quinquinnal Award for Governance and Infrastructure, the statement noted, recognized the Minister's outstanding contributions to the development and transformation of Abuja’s infrastructural landscape. Congratulating the Minister on behalf…

A Nigerian woman, identified as Patience Gold, has tarnished the image of the country in Ghana following evidences produced in court showing her shocking degree of wickedness, raw greed and unconscionable avarice while running a prostitution ring --an illegality in the neighbouring West African country. The Tarkwa Circuit Court in Ghana sentenced the 32-year-old commercial sex worker to 20 years’ imprisonment for trafficking four young women from Nigeria to Ghana to engage in prostitution,reports Ghana Graphic in its May 8, 2025 edition. According to court documents filed by the state, the presiding judge, Hathia Ama Manu, heard that the convict,…

By our reporter Pope Leo XIV has a past link with Nigeria and Nigerians. In 2016, he, as Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, visited the Augustinians in Nigeria when he was serving as Prior General of the Order of St. Augustine. He even posed for a photograph (above) with some Nigerian Augustinians during the memorable visit. The Augustinian Order, or Order of St. Augustine (OSA), is a mendicant religious order in the Catholic Church founded in 1244 by Pope Innocent IV. It is an international order with friars living in community and inspired by the teachings and life of St. Augustine…

Leaders from around the globe have offered warm congratulations to Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first pope from the U.S. He has adopted the new name of Pope Leo XIV. The announcement that U.S Cardinal Robert Prevost has been named Pope Leo XIV has caused excitement tinged with hope around the world, with leaders from numerous countries offering their congratulations. The elevation of Prevost, the first person from the United States to ascend to the highest position in the Catholic Church, has also sparked discussion about what his tenure could mean for the church’s leadership on a host of issues, among…