•UTME candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday said it had released the results of candidates who took the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18. The agency, in a post on X signed by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed that a total of 1,264,94...
•Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) and France’s President Emmanuel Macron (R) France and Britain will co-host a video conference on Friday with countries ready to contribute to a “purely defensive mission” to secure the Strait of Hormuz, the French president’s office said. President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minist...
•Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has announced Friday, March 20, 2026, as the first day of Shawwal 1447AH, following the non-sighting of the crescent that signals the end of Ramadan. The announcement was made in a statement signed by Sambo Wali Junaidu, who is the Chairman of the Advisory Committee [&hell...
•Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo The federal government has declared Friday, September 5 as a public holiday to mark Eid-ul-Mawlid, the celebration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad. This was disclosed today in a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr. Magdalene Ajani, on behalf of the Minister of Interior, Dr. ...
•Governor Godwin Obaseki Edo State Government has declared tomorrow, Friday, September 20, a work-free day to enable workers and others travel to their voting areas ahead of the Saturday’s governorship election in the state. A statement by Joseph Eboigbe, Secretary to the Edo State Government (SSG), reassured that security measures had been pr...
•Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola The National Judicial Council is set to meet on Friday, August 16, to decide on the successor of the outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola. Ariwoola is billed to bow out on August 22, when he will attain the mandatory retirement age of 70, reports The PUNCH. […]
•Governor Dikko Radda The Katsina State Governor Dikko Radda has declared Friday, April 12, 2024 as work free day for the Eid-El-Fitr celebrations. According to Governor Radda, his government has also taken this step to enable workers in the state to fully enjoy the Sallah celebration with their families. The decision to declare the day [&hell...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s funeral is planned for Friday in a Moscow church, his allies said two weeks after his shock death in an Arctic prison. Authorities resisted handing Navalny’s body to his family for eight days, in what his team said was an attempt to “cover” up who was responsible for his death […]
•National Assembly Complex The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, has revealed that the National Assembly will pass the 2024 Appropriation Bill on December 30 to sustain the January-December budget cycle. He disclosed at a session with journalists in Iyin-Ekiti, Ekiti State on Monday, saying all federal lawmakers would have to cut short their ho...
The Frontier is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. It is published by Okims Media Links Limited headed by Sunny Okim, a veteran journalist who is widely known as The Grandmaster, fondly called so by colleagues and friends for being Nigeria’s pioneer movie journalist.
© 2026 The Frontier, Published by Okims Media Links Limited.
designed by winnet services
