The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday, reserved judgment on the case against the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Human rights Lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), who led the delegation of legal practitioners representing the IPOB leader, urged the court to strike out the […]
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Nigeria-born American professor, Uju Anya, has expressed her gratitude to Nigerians following the controversy generated by her comments on late Queen Elizabeth II of England. As the Queen’s health was reported to be critical last Thursday, Professor Anya took to her Twitter page to tweet, “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal […]
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University undergraduates under the banner of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Tuesday blocked the Shagamu interchange of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway to protest the ongoing ASUU strike. Hundreds of the protesting students demanded an immediate end to the prolonged strike urging the Federal Government to meet the demands of the striking lecturers to […]
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A 24-year-old lady, Annastasia Michael, has written an open letter to Sonia, the daughter of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, offering to donate one of her kidneys to save her life. This is coming after the 25-year-old Sonia Ekweremadu made an appeal to members of the public to donate a kidney to save […]
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Asks Party elders, stakeholders to resolve crisis soonest Include all Presidential Aspirants in PDP Campaign Council A former Presidential Aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze, has called on the party to put its house in order to enable it win the 2023 Presidential Election. While frowning at the lingering internal crisis […]
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Pastor Blessed and wife, Mercy Chinwo Gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo, has showered praises on her husband, Pastor Blessed Uzochikwa, on their one-month marriage celebration. In a post late Monday, the singer shared a picture of herself and her husband on her Instagram page, as she sang his praises. Chinwo noted that getting married to Pastor […]
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, yesterday, kept leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, guessing over his next move following a vote of confidence passed on the Senator Iyorchia Ayu-led National Working Committee. Wike and those sympathetic to his cause had demanded Ayu’s resignation as a precondition for peace. But indications emerged, yesterday, that […]
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The International Criminal Court in The Hague | File photo: Reuters A free media is pivotal to the success and sustainability of any democracy. Article 19 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) says, “everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes, freedom to hold opinions without interference and to […]
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Hints by the Federal Government that it might reconsider its position on the ‘‘no-work-no-pay’’ policy against aggrieved university teachers surely raises some hope of resolving the lingering impasse between the two bodies. However, given the reported threat by the Federal Government to proscribe the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over persistent disagreements and considering […]
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Federal Government’s team and the National Executive of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at one of their meetings As court moves suit hearing to Friday SERAP seeks to join suit Falana: FG employing delay tactics Drop charges against ASUU, groups tell FG Amid breakdown in talks, efforts to reopen public universities in the […]
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