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By Agency Report US President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he was dropping out of his reelection battle with Donald Trump, in a historic move that plunges the already turbulent 2024 White House race into uncharted territory. However, Biden has endorsed Kamala Harris, the country’s Vice President as his preferred presidential nominee for his Democratic Party. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve you as president,” the 81-year-old Democrat said in a letter in X, posted while he was recovering from COVID at his beach house in Delaware. “While it has been my intention to seek…

Seven Nigerian tertiary institutions on Thursday received ‌N750 million in prizes awarded by the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board’s (JAMB) National Tertiary Admissions Performance Merit Award (NATAP-M). The institutions were rewarded for strict compliance with JAMB’s admission guidelines. The winners –three universities, a polytechnic, a college of education and an innovation enterprise institution– were presented with dummy cheques during the award ceremony shortly after the 2024 policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions, also convened by JAMB in Abuja on Thursday. Also read:  2024 UTME: Three Akwa Ibom students make JAMB’s list of top scorers  According to the JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede,…

By X handle The Presidency and the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi have wrangled over a planned ‘EndBadGovernance’ protest. The protest against economic hardship, which is gaining traction on social media, has been scheduled to be held across all states of the Federation as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Prices of food and basic commodities have gone through the roof in the last months, as Nigerians battle one of the country’s worst inflation and economic crisis sparked by the government’s twin policies of petrol subsidy removal and unification of forex windows. Straightnews learnt that the…

Ibom Air, Air Peace, United Nigeria and other airlines in Nigeria have denied being blacklisted by international lessors. BusinessDay had earlier reported that 13 domestic airlines were blacklisted by international lessors for their refusal to pay lessor fees, but airlines said the blacklist was on Nigeria and not on the carriers. They noted that they do not owe lessors and have no issues with them at the moment. They further explained that the issues with lessors involved past carriers and not current airlines. Obiora Okonkwo, chairman/CEO of United Nigeria Airlines, told BusinessDay that all the four aircraft on the fleet…

Ibom Veterans Peace League has condemned the brutal murder of retired Brigadier-General Uwem Harold Udoekwere, who until his death, was the National Chairman of Retired Members of Nigerian Armed Forces (REMENAF). The league which is an Akwa Ibom State-based Non-Governmental, Non-Military, Non-Partisan Organization made up of retired military personnel of Akwa Ibom origin is demanding justice for their slain colleague. Gen. Udoekwere, an Etinan-born from Akwa Ibom, was reportedly murdered on Saturday, June 22, 2024 at his home in an estate in Lokogoma area, Abuja by six suspected robbers. The suspects were said to have invaded his home at about 3:00…

By Agency Report Fishermen sliced up and sumptuously feasted on Manatee, a marine animal, in Odi community, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. According to Niger Delta Insider, the fully aquatic mammal was caught on Friday afternoon, July 19, 2024. Manatees are sometimes known as sea cows.  All three species of Manatees are classified as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They are threatened by habitat loss, collision with boats, and pollution. Also read:  Gov polls: CDD decries vote-buying, violence in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi  Further research by Straightnews shows that Manatees, large herbivores that…

Aniefiok Christopher An Uyo Magistrate Court in Akwa Ibom has remanded six robbery and kidnap suspects in a Correctional Centre without option of fine in the state. The suspects recently arrested by men of the State Police Command over kidnapping were arraigned at the court located along Fulga Street, Uyo. A press statement issued by the state Police Relations Officer, ASP Timfon John mentioned the names the four of the six suspects to include Abdulkarem Yusuf ‘m’, Yusuf Waziri ‘m’, Ibinabo Sunny Iboroma ‘m’ and Abdulrahman Abbas ‘m’ were arrested last month by the Command’s Anti-Robbery Squad following a distress…

The reinstated Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philips Shaibu, on Friday, said he was already an unofficial member of the All Progressives Congress. He said the only thing still keeping him in the Peoples Democratic Party was because he was yet to officially dump the ruling party in Edo. Reacting to questions on why he was supporting the APC governorship candidate in Edo when he featured on Arise TV’s morning show on Friday, the deputy governor maintained that his spirit had left the PDP. Also read: Edo Deputy Gov battles as Governor lays mines for his impeachment “In PDP now,…

By Straightnews The Federal and Akwa Ibom Governments have flooded 2,272 villages in the state with 48,000 bags of rice aimed at cushioning the current food crisis and hardships facing the people. This is as the Akwa Ibom government says it has received  24,000 bags of 25kg rice donated to the state by the Federal Government. Addressing a press briefing in Uyo on Friday, the state Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. (Mrs.) Offiong Offor said Governor Umo Eno is appreciative to the Federal Government for being “caring and responsive” at this very critical time, which is indicative that…

Federal Government has retracted by asking candidates who are 16 years old be admitted into tertiary institutions for the 2024/25 academic year. The Education Minister, Prof Tahir Mamman made the U-turn in his earlier statement, where he directed the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to admit only candidates who have attained 18 years in tertiary institutions. Stakeholders and attendees at the ongoing policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, had protested as Prof. Mamman, declared that only candidates who have attained the age of 18 would henceforth be given admission into tertiary institutions in the country. Also…