SSANU slams Tinubu over “selective” waiver on “no work, no pay” policy

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has described as selective President Bola Tinubu’s directives that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) be paid four months out of their eight months withheld salaries during the last industrial action by public university workers nationwide. Reacting to the presidential order, SSANU insisted that […]

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Tears as family members, colleagues, friends bid Vanguard Editor’s mother, wife farewell

Tears and emotions flowed freely as the remains of Mrs Celestina Aboda and Mrs Bridget Umoru, mother and wife of an Associate Political Editor with Vanguard Newspaper, Mr.Henry Umoru, were buried at Ikpeshi in Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo State. Friends, colleagues, and family members of Umoru trooped out in their numbers to […]

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Tinubu: Consider your reputation after retirement, Timi Frank tells Supreme Court Justices

With about 48 hours to the judgment on the appeals challenging the eligibility of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President of Nigeria, a political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, on Saturday called on the Justices of the Supreme Court to consider national interest first above personal […]

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Journalism must probe society, Soyinka says at Naija Times event

Wole Soyinka on Naija Times Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka said Thursday that journalism must tread new grounds to probe not just the state but the society itself. The professor of Comparative Literature said that society needed to be nudged into consciousness of where it was and where it was headed. “The state stands to save […]

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Onanuga mocks Atiku, Obi over FBI’s file on Tinubu, says “You’ll fail…

Bayo Onanuga Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has accused the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) of working in cahoots with investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, to mount pressure on the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to release […]

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2023 Elections: You were dishonest, Cardinal Onaiyekan accuses INEC Chair, Mahmood Yakubu

A photo combination of Cardinal Onaiyekan and INEC’s Yakubu Mahmood. Bishop Emeritus of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Mahmood Yakubu of misleading Nigerians and not being honest in the conduct of the 2023 elections. The Cardinal, who was speaking to journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, during […]

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Supreme Court to hear APGA’s case seeking Uzodinma’s sack — three years after

The Supreme Court has fixed October 31 to hear an application filed by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) seeking to remove Hope Uzodinma from office as Imo state governor. The hearing is coming three years after the party filed the application in July 2020. APGA is contending that there ought to have been a […]

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Capitalisation dips by N140b amid losses in Stanbic IBTC, Nestle, others

Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) Negative sentiments resurfaced on the equities sector of the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) yesterday as market capitalisation depreciated by N140 billion amid losses in Stanbic IBTC, Nestle and 23 stocks. Specifically, at the close of transactions yesterday, market capitalisation of listed equities declined by 0.4 per cent to N36.864 trillion from […]

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