Month: November 2021

The House of Representatives has resolved to beam its searchlight on the alleged failure of the Special Public Works Scheme initiated by the Federal Government, which was meant to engage 774,000 jobless Nigerian youths. The green chamber at the plenary on Wednesday, mandated its Committees on Youths, Labour, Finance and Appropriations to carry out the…

Delta State Police Command on Wednesday arraigned the recently deposed Ologbotsere of Warri Kingdom, Ayiri Emami, before a Warri South Chief Magistrates’ Court in Delta State over alleged theft of two royal crowns valued at N2bn. In the case with reference No: CR630/2021, the embattled Warri chief, who is a well-known billionaire businessman, was charged…

Widow of the slain Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife postgraduate student, Bolatito Adegoke has narrated how her late husband, Timothy Oluwadare Adegoke was gruesomely murdered like an animal. Bolatito, who spoke with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Yoruba said “even animals don’t kill themselves like the way my husband was killed.” Recounting her ordeal and…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has insisted that it has not backed down on the ultimatum given to the Federal Government adding that, the union has not heard anything from the government’s representatives since they both met last Thursday. The National President of the Union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, had also lamented the pressure…

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has constituted a three-man Committee to follow up with the investigation in real time into the death of post graduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Adegoke Timothy. The highest students’ association in the country, through its President, Mr Sunday Asefon stated this in a release on Wednesday.…