Lecturers in universities, polytechnics and colleges of education have embarked on no fewer than 719 days of strike since the inception of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2015. An analysis of activities in the tertiary education sector, carried out by our correspondent on Wednesday, revealed this. The Academic Staff Union of Universities […]
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The Yobe North Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bashir Machina, has said that President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, who currently occupies the seat, did not have a plan to return to the Senate. Machina, who insisted on not giving the ticket to Lawan, stated the senator would not have contested the party’s […]
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The opposition Peoples Democratic Party will on today screen nominees for the vice-presidential position. A chieftain of the party, who confided in one of our correspondents on Wednesday, said contrary to reports, three candidates were shortlisted for the position, not one as reported by some newspapers. According to him, those shortlisted include Delta State Governor, […]
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Ganduje, Masari, el-Rufai on the list Northwest favoured due to block votes amid Muslim/Muslim consideration Kalu justifies APC’s Muslim/Muslim ticket ACF ex-scribe, Sani warns parties, says Muslim-Muslim ticket recipe for crisis Baring any last minute change, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will today release the name of his […]
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By Abdu Rafiu The position of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and several commentators on the controversy surrounding the choice of Vice President in the next dispensation is understandable. What would have passed without a whimper some years ago is today an issue. In 1992 when Moshood Abiola, MKO, picked Babagana Kingibe as his […]
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N964 million for the provision of satellite-based education system equipment in three primary schools in each of the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, revealed this at the end of the Council’s meeting, chaired by President Muhammadu […]
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By Azuka Onwuka On Friday, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced that based on the reports it received from some states about “unprecedented surge in the number of citizens that wish to register as voters and the challenges they face across the country,” it held a meeting and decided to deploy additional 209 machines to […]
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The police in Anambra State have rescued 35 teenage girls who were being used for commercial sex slavery, prostitution, and baby factory. Four of whom were said to be pregnant. They were reportedly rescued in an operation reportedly carried out by state’s police command during which an hotel where the girls were camped, was raided. […]
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A man, identified only as Kayode, has committed suicide after his neighbour’s daughter accused him of raping her twice at their house in the Oja-Amukoko area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the victim’s mother, who had a stroke, was taken to the Ikorodu area for treatment. The suspect, who was put in care […]
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Residents of Ikem town in the Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State have decried the incessant abduction of their people by suspected Fulani militia. They said that four indigenes of the community have been abducted in the past two weeks with different sums of ransom paid for their freedom. Some of them who spoke […]
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