Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, sank into a deeper crisis on Wednesday as Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike’s team reportedly pulled out of the campaign council of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The group, which has been relentlessly calling on the party’s national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, to resign for […]
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The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has faulted the court judgement which mandated the Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU, to call of its seven month strike. The National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Wednesday ordered the ASUU to call off its ongoing nationwide strike. ASUU has been on strike since February 14 to press […]
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The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its ongoing strike. ASUU has been on a seven-month strike since Monday, February 14. The union is demanding the federal government of reneging on previous agreements on matters such as increased funding for universities and increasing […]
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Former Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (right); President Muhammadu Buhari; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari; Permanent Representative of Nigeria to UN, Prof. Tijani Muhammad-Bande and Minister of Finance, Hajia Zainab Ahmed during the opening of the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York… yesterday Buhari seeks […]
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First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has come under criticism after she shared the graduation photographs of her daughter-in-law across her social media pages on Tuesday. Zahra Bayero-Buhari, who got married to President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf, in August 2021, graduated from a UK university on Tuesday. Aisha’s critics berated her for being insensitive to the plights […]
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Ondo State Police Command has arrested two kidnap suspects who were allegedly involved in serial kidnapping cases. It also arrested one fake kidnapping/stealing suspect. A statement by the police spokeswoman in the state, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, said that the suspects abducted Mrs. Akinloye Folashade and Stephen Stella between July 13 and August 28. Also, she […]
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Some civil society groups, on Tuesday, described as “insensitive” a post made by the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, on her Facebook page celebrating her daughter-in-law’s graduation from a United Kingdom university. They also asked her to apologise to millions of Nigerian students stuck at home as the seven-month strike by the Academic Staff […]
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Special Adviser to Ondo State Governor on Environment, Hon Oyeniyi Oseni, 3rd Left; with a naval officer and some members of the State Environmental Protection Agency, OSEPA, during their visit to Igbokoda Worried by the incessant pollution of the waterways in the coastal areas of Ondo State, the State Environmental Protection Agency, OSEPA, has constituted […]
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INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, published the final list of candidates validly nominated by political parties for the 2023 national elections, namely presidential, senatorial and federal constituencies. This is in compliance with Section 32(1) of the Electoral Act (2022). Containing only the names, party, age, gender, academic […]
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The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has warned that the quality of teaching in the nation’s universities will be negatively affected if the National Industrial Court (NIC) forces the union to return to work. He stated this on Tuesday during a meeting between the union, the leadership of […]
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