The National Examination Council, NECO, has released the 2022 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination,SSCE, (internal) results, with 60.74 percent scoring five credits and above in both English Language and Mathematics out of a total of 1,198,412 candidates. It stated that when compared to 2021 SSCE, figure of 878,925, representing 71.64%, the results showed a decrease…
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California has sentenced Adedayo Akinwunmi Agbayewa to prison. The 45-year-old resident of College Park in Georgia will spend five years behind bars for an international fraud scheme. U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced the convict was ordered to pay $7,784,415 in restitution for mail fraud…
As the campaign officially started in preparation for the next year general election, some presidential candidates and chairmen of the 18 registered political parties have started arriving the International Conference Centre (ICC) for the 1st signing of the National Peace Accord ahead of the 2023 general elections. Informant247 gathered that, the peace accord is organised…
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos State, has sentenced a 22-year-old man, Abiola Emmanuel, to two years’ imprisonment for fraud. The convict was arraigned on one count of retention of proceeds of crime. The charge read, “That you, Abiola Emmanuel, on or about March 17, 2022, in Lagos, within the Ikeja…
An Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, on Wednesday, remanded a 37-year-old man, Abiodun Babatunde, arraigned for defiling a minor. Babatunde, who was arraigned on four counts bothering on unlawful intercourse, sexual assault and threat to life, allegedly committed the offences on 20th March at Surulere Area of Ikirun, Osun state. Addressing…
A 7 self-contained apartment in a private hostel occupied by the Students of Kwara State Polytechnic, has on Wednesday gutted by fire The private hostel known as “GQ Hostel” was located outside the Polytechnic Campus at Apata Yakuba area, Ilorin had 7 of the 11 self-contained flats consumed by the fire. Informant247 gathered that, the…
The crisis rocking the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as taken a new twist following the absence of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his Oyo counterpart, Seyi Makinde in an official inauguration of the party’s presidential campaign council on Wednesday in Abuja. Other Governors that are absent from the inauguration include; Samuel Ortom of…
There is heavy tension in Iganna, a town in the Iwajowa Local Government Area of Oyo State, following a deadly attack on the police station in the community. Informant247 gathered that the attack has lead to the killing of two persons including a police officer on duty. A source in the area told our correspondent…
Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has on Wednesday ordered the labour Party and its supporters not to converge on the Lekki Toll-Gate for its planned rally in solidarity for the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi. The court ruled that the LP supporters could only pass through the facility for…
Power outage at the House of Representatives hampered the consideration of a bill to increase transportation and accommodation allowances of NYSC corps members. Informant247 learnt that, The bill, sponsored by Eta Ebora, was listed for consideration on the order paper of the House, but the abrupt disruption of power in the chamber forced the lawmakers…
Troops of Operation Forest Sanity have rescued seven kidnapped victims in Birnin Gwari and Chikun Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, disclosed this on Tuesday, saying the troops engaged the terrorists in battle to rescue the the kidnapped victims in the two LGAs. According…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, on Tuesday nullified all the primary elections conducted by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in choosing candidates for the 2023 general elections in the State. The presiding judge, Justice O. O Oguntoyinbo in his judgement ordered the party to conduct another primaries within the…
Benue State Police Command officers have rescued four kidnap victims. The victims were reportedly abducted on September 23, 2022, along Ijegwu-Opirikwu road, Odiapa council ward of Obi Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, Catherine Anene, in a statement on Tuesday said a team of police officers in collaboration with other security agents…
The House of Representatives passed second reading legislation banning late payment of wages, underpayment of wages, pensions and other benefits in Nigeria. The bill, sponsored by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, passed its second reading on tuesday after a debate on the general principle of the bill. The bill seeks to prohibit employees from owing salaries and…
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar met with party stakeholders in Enugu state on Tuesday. Informant247 reports that the meeting was a follow-up to its consultations with stakeholders in the six geopolitical zones. However, it was learnt that, Abia state governor Okezie Ikpeazu and several others were conspicuously absent from the meeting…
Authorities of the Military Pension’s Board have alerted retired ex-soldiers/military retirees not to fall victims to the purported information making the rounds in the social media claiming that MPB is to commence the verification of retired soldiers and officers on November 26, 2022. The Pensions Board noted that the purported information was lifted from the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has postponed the commencement of its campaign earlier slated for Wednesday. The Director Media and Publicity of the Council, Bayo Onanuga in a statement on Monday said the council would commence official campaign on Wednesday with a prayer session and peace walk in Abuja, in line with…
The Osun state government has suspended a teacher, Abimbola Olowookere, for allegedly duping some recently recruited teachers to the tune of N30,000, claiming to influence their posting. It was reported to the Osun State Department of Education that the said Mr. Olowookere collected the money from the teachers in the Osun East Education District to…
Male students took to the streets in Bauchi on Monday to protest the separation of boys and girls in secondary schools. Commissioner for Education, Dr. Aliyu Tilde said last week the government decided to segregate male and female students in public secondary schools because of student moral decadence on social media, which is common in…
The Adamawa State Police Command has paraded 44 people allegedly involved in kidnapping, robberies, and some other crimes in the State The state Commissioner of Police, Sikiru Akande, who paraded the suspects on Monday, said the command rounded up the suspects by executing a crime-fighting strategy to clear pathways for smooth electoral processes in the…
