Month: February 2022
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Varsity Summons Parents, Guardians To Town Hall Meeting
Parents and guardians of students of Abia State University, ABSU, Uturu, have been summoned by the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Onyemachi Ogbulu to a town hall meeting. The state owned varsity let this out in a statement signed by the school’s registrar, Acho Elendu, titled, ‘Invitation to Town Hall Meeting with Parents and…
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ASUU OAU Issues Fresh Directive To Members Over Payment of Earned Allowances
The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has urged its members not to fill any Google form designed by the university management, saying it is a “charade that will benefit nobody.” In a statement signed by its chairman, Dr Adeola Egbedokun, on Friday, the union said it had…
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BUK: ASUU Declares Monday Lectures Free DayTo Sensitize Students, Parents On Looming Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Bayero University Kano (BUK) chapter, has declared Monday a lecture free day in the university. According to ASUU, the day will be used to sensitise students, parents and other stakeholders on the brewing crisis arising from what they described as the federal government’s failure to judiciously implement its…
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Yahoo-Yahoo: We were only making comedy skit, young men spotted ‘eating poo-poo’ in viral video speak,as Police React
Three comedians in Imo State, who were thought to have been eating their faeces in a trending video, have denied doing so, saying that they were only making a comedy skit. Great Egbuchulam, Solomon Mbata and Arinze Mbah aged 21, 20 and 21 respectively debunked the video reports while speaking with the News Agency of…
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14 State Governors, 26 APC State Chairmen Back Tinubu Presidential Ambition, Jibrin
Director-General of the Bola Tinubu Support Group Council, Hon.Abdulmumin Jibrin has revealed that fourteen state governors have thrown weight behind the presidential ambition of the National Leader of All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Jibrin added that four additional Governors, are also in talks to join the presidential bid of the much touted…
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Hushpuppi ‘Pleads’ Guilty, as Attorney’s Office Postpones Sentencing by Five Months
Punch Newspaper The United States Attorney’s Office at the Central District of California has postponed the sentencing of alleged international Internet fraudster Ramon Abbas, aka, Hushpuppi by five months. The court’s Director of Media Relations, Thom Mrozek, in response to an email inquiry by The PUNCH late Thursday, said the date which was initially scheduled…
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#SaveRayan: Anxiety In Morocco,as 5-year-Old Boy Trapped In Deep Well For Over 60 Hours (Videos)
Moroccan rescuers raced against the clock on Friday to save a young boy trapped in a deep well for almost three days, in an operation that has gripped the kingdom with hundreds of thousands anxiously glued to live broadcasts. Relief operations intensified for five-year-old Rayan, who fell down a 32-metre deep well on Tuesday, as…
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Yahoo-Yahoo: Son of Former Rector Convicted In Ilorin Over $2,000 Fraud
Son of the former rector of federal polytechnic offa, Olaoye Jamiu Olarewaju have been convicted over cyber fraud of $2,000. The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, February 3, 2022 secured the conviction of Olaoye. A statement by the antigraft agency says Olaoye was convicted alongside one Badmus Ridwan…
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ASUU To Embark On Indefinite Strike, Official
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, says it would soon embark on an indefinite strike to press home its demands. Chairman of the University of Jos chapter of the union, Dr Lazarus Maigoro, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Jos. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the union suspended a nine-month-old…
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Sokoto, Kano Missing, as APC Inaugurates State Chairmen ( Full List)
Amid heavy security presence, the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress has inaugurated 34 state chairmen at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday. The state chairmen who emerged from the state congresses conducted last October were sworn in by Governor Mai Mala Buni, who was represented…