Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, cautioned the All Progressives Congress (APC) against pushing Nigerians into nationwide restiveness worse than the 2020 #EndSARS crisis. It said the government’s “unrelenting culture of arrogance, impunity and criminal pillaging of our national resources is akin to kneeling on the necks of Nigerians.” In a statement by its national publicity […]
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• Judgment leaves much to be desired, says Okeke • National Assembly, a necessary party, has right to set same aside on appeal – Ajulo • May judiciary not destroy Nigeria in our lifetime, Adegboruwa says • Deleting section of existing legislation duty of NASS, not AGF – Jaja Amazed by the speed of the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a fresh range of solutions, including the deployment of more security personnel, arms and ammunition to douse the security situation in Imo State. Imo Governor Hope Uzodinma, who revealed the outcome of his meeting with Buhari in Abuja, also denied allegations of the culpability of his administration in the reign […]
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• National oil company denies PMS price review claims The queues by motorists for Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, particularly in Abuja and northern states have refused to clear despite the supply of about 1.824 billion litres of PMS by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. Also, the NNPC on Sunday denied claims that […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it would not extend the March 26, 2022 deadline for registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) exercises. Its Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, said the board will not extend the exercise because it was working on a “tight schedule.” Oloyede said this […]
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An Osun State High Court in Osogbo has adjourned the murder trial of a postgraduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke. At the resumed hearing on Monday, the presiding Judge and Chief Justice of Osun State High Court, Adepele Ojo, granted the defence counsel’s request to move its no-case submission, and adjourned hearing […]
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Senators were warned on Monday that history would be their judge as they launched marathon confirmation hearings to consider the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court. President Joe Biden’s pick to join the nation’s highest court was formally introduced at the start […]
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The Chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, on Monday, in Abuja resumed his duties at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress. Buni who arrived at the Secretariat on Monday afternoon was greeted to a rousing welcome from workers and management. He was almost supplanted […]
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Nigeria is facing serious economic and security challenges, the Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Tokunbo Abiru, has said. Addressing a press conference on his stewardship in the last 14 months in the Senate, Abiru said at no time in Nigeria’s recent history has the economy, well-being, peace and unity been so vigorously and persistently […]
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By Folorunso Fatai Adisa When a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli, said “A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning,” most Nigerian universities were absent. As confirmed by the current primitive activities that are trailing the emergence of the Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, at the moment, […]
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