Meanwhile, in its assessment of JAMB results between 2013 and 2022, the Economic Confidential Magazine has listed 56 Best Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates in the last 10 years who scored an average of 290 and above.

Ondo, Kogi, Rivers lead as Inflation Rises to 22.41% - NBS   The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the average prices of goods rose the highest year-on-year in Ondo, Kogi, and Rivers states. This is as inflation in the country rose to 22.41 per cent in...

Nigeria Records N931.1bn Trade Surplus In Q1, 2023   Nigeria recorded N931.1billion surplus trade in the First Quarter of the year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Its document entitled: “Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics (Q1 2023),” which The Nation obtained yesterday, stated in the...

Insurance Sector Shrinks By 7% Over Cash Crunch – NBS   The insurance sector’s growth fell by 7.25 per cent in the first quarter of 2023, the latest figures obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) have revealed. The NBS disclosed in its ‘Nigeria Gross Domestic...

15-Year-old Nigerian Actually Holds Guinness World Records in Football, PRNigeria Fact-Check Reveals A 15-year-old Nigerian, Vincent Okezie, is actually a recipient of Guinness World Record in football, a PRNigeria fact-check has revealed. The fact-check confirmed a widely shared Facebook post which claimed that one 15-year-old Vincent...

In Three Months, Commercial Papers Hit N539bn   The value of quoted commercial papers on the FMDQ Exchange stood at N539.22bn at the end of the first quarter of 2023 with the total outstanding value of CPs rising to N669.36bn at the end of the same...