Month: May 2021
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How We Sale Properties To Raise N180 Million, Parents of Greenfield Students
Parents, Guardians and Associates of the just released students and staff of Greenfield University have carpeted the federal government and Kaduna State Government for their alleged negligence while their loved ones were in abductors’ den They students were released after the parents met the demand of the kidnappers for an N180m ransom. So angry were…
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Video: Chelsea Proofs Critics Wrong Wins UCL
Chelsea has won the Champions League for the second time after beating Manchester City in a thrilling final in Porto. Kai Havertz scored the decisive goal just before half-time, running on to Mason Mount’s excellent ball before knocking it past Ederson and then rolling into the empty net. City, who were looking to win the…
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ASUU Berates 5 Governors Over Alleged Intimidation, Harassment of Lecturers
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has berated five Governors for allegedly harassing and intimidating lecturers at their respective state universities for demanding fair working conditions. National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said that these governors have shown, by their actions, that they were not interested in providing quality education for their people…
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14 Abducted Greenfield Varsity Students Regain Freedom
Fourteen abducted students of Greenfield-University have regained freedom from their abductors. The students were abducted from their hostels on April 20. Five of the students were killed by the gunmen. According to a report by Channels Television, the students were released on Saturday afternoon at a location along the Kaduna- Abuja highway. The report added…
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COAS Appointment As Missed Opportunity For National Unity by Farooq Kperogi
The appointment of my namesake, Major General Farouk Yahaya, as Chief of Army Staff to succeed the late Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru who died in a plane crash on May 21 is yet another tone-deaf but entirely predictable mismanagement of Nigeria’s diversity at a time it desperately needs to be cared for with deliberate symbolic…
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Watch As Community Banishes Man For Twenty Years Over Alleged Withcraft in Abia
Members of a community in Obohia Amuda Isuochi in the Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State have banished a man identified as Obioma Ubani for 20 years. In a video that has now gone viral, Obioma was accused of engaging in witchcraft and killing one Professor Chike Ubani. Dressed in Raffia palms popularly known…
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Strike: FG Addresses Protesting Polytechnic Students
The Federal Government of Nigeria has told the protesting students of Polytechnics that, the government should not be held not responsible for the protracted strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP). The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this in Abuja on Friday while addressing students of polytechnics across…
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ASUU Lost 30 Members To COVID-19, Prof. Ogunyemi
The president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, said that the union lost 30 of its members to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Ogunyemi made this known at the ongoing 21st ASUU National Delegates Conference/Official commissioning of ASUU-UNIZIK Secretariat held at the new Secretariat, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State. He…
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Exited N-Power Beneficiaries Fume Over Purported Payment of 5-Months Backlogs
A group of exited N-power Beneficiaries has expressed its utterly displeasure over a statement credited to Minister of humanitarian Affairs, Sadiyya Umar Farouq, that her Ministry has paid the five months backlogs owed over 14000 exited Npower Batch A and Batch B beneficiaries. The group in a statement issued by its spokesman, Aremu Ridwan Olalekan…
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President Buhari Wins 2021 Trophée Babacar Ndiaye Award
President Muhammadu Buhari has been named winner of the 2021 Great Builder Super Prize for Trophée Babacar Ndiaye, taking over from Abdel Fattah al-Sissi of Egypt, who won the 2020 prize. According to a statement from the African Development Bank, AfDB on Friday, MR Buhari was named winner during the inaugural Africa Road Builders Conference…