Month: February 2022
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ASUU Begins Mobilisation For Another Strike in Varsities
The Nation University lecturers are heading for another strike over the re-negotiated 2009 agreement with the Federal Government, it was learnt at the weekend. There are indications that the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will meet on February 14 to review the implementation of some components of the agreement…
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Just In: Benin Republic Extends Detention of Sunday Igboho
Punch Newspaper The Government of the Republic of Benin has extended the detention of Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo aka Igboho by six months. Counsel for the detained activist, Chief Yomi Aliyyu, said this in a chat with our correspondent late Sunday night. This is contrary to what a lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, said on Friday…
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Lai Muhammed Slams N100 Billion Suit On Online News Medium Over Alleged Libel
Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed has dragged an online publication, Pointblank News, before an Abuja High court over alleged libel. In a copy of the Writ of Summon obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, the minister is seeking the sum of N50 billion aggravated and exemplary damages for alleged libel…
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Abducted Bethel Student Reportedly Refuses To Leave Bandits’ Den After Delivery of Ransom
One of the abducted Bethel Baptist High School student who is in the his abductors’ has reportedly refused to return to his family and expressed that he was now comfortable staying with the terrorists. It’s also learnt that the member of the Christian Association of Nigeria ( CAN) who took the ransom demanded by the…
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NIMC Suspends NIN Verification, Provides Alternative
The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, has announced the temporary suspension of the National Identity Number (NIN) verification number introduced by Goodluck Jonathan led government in 2014. Acccording to NIMC at the weekend, the suspension was due to a maintenance service being carried out by one of theCommission’s network service providers. The commission urged the…
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If not for the Nigerian education system, should I still be in school? Mapoly Student Arrested For ‘Having Sex’ Speaks
24-year-old Olanipekun Irenimofe, who identified herself as a student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, narrates to DAUD OLATUNJI of The Punch Newspaper how she was allegedly arrested and put behind bars by the police for visiting a pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test kit and contraceptivePlease introduce yourself. My name is Olanipekun Oladayo…
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ASUU Directs Varsities To Declare Monday Lectures Free Day
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has directed its chapters across the country to sensitise members of the public on the situation between the union and the Federal Government. This is as it declared Monday, February 7,2022, as a lecture-free day in a bid to enhance the sensitisation. The National President of the Union,…
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35-year-old Medical Doctor Joins Osun Governorship Election Race
Dr Ademola Bayonle, a 35 -year- old medical doctor, has joined the race for the July 16 Osun governorship election, under the platform of the Young Progressive Party. Bayonle said this when he spoke with newsmen shortly after receiving his nomination form at the YPP’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Saturday. He said that youths…
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Police Nab Suspected Kidnapper in Kwara Forest, Recover N2.3 Million, Other Items
The Kwara Police Command has arrested a transborder suspected kidnapper, Mohammed Alo, in the forest of Baruteen Local Government Area of the state. This is contained in a statement issued by the Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Ajayi Okasanmi, on Monday in Ilorin. He said that the suspect, a citizen of Benin Republic, was…
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“Chief Sunday Igboho will be out very soon”, Lawyer
Pelumi Olanjebgbesi who was once among the Legal Counsels for the Yoruba Nation Agitator, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho has given update on the effort being put forward to secure his release from detention. It should be noted that, the Abuja based lawyer, Olajengbesi has resigned from the team of Nigerian lawyers for…