Month: June 2022
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President Buhari Forwards Names Of Seven Minsterial Nominees To National Assembly (Full List)
President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of seven nominees for appointment as ministers. The president’s request was contained in two letters read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan on the floor of the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday. Rotimi Amaechi, Ogbonnaya Onu, Godswill Akpabio and Emeka Nwajiuba who all resigned to pursue presidential bids will…
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Sexual Misconduct: OAU, UNIABUJA Dismiss Four Professors, 14 Others
Punch Newspaper No fewer than 18 lecturers in the nation’s tertiary institutions have been indicted and dismissed over sexual misconduct in one year, analysis of media reports by The PUNCH has revealed. The issue of sexual harassment has been recurring in Nigerian institutions with a survey conducted in 2018 by the World Bank Group’s Women…
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Negotiation Committee Waiting for FG, say ASUU, SSANU
Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and allied institutions have both said they have yet to receive any message after discussing the 2009 agreements with the Federal Government renegotiation committee. The Federal Government…
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Bank Staff, Five Others Arrested in Ibadan Over Attempt To Attack New Generation Bank
A staff of a new generation bank in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital and five other criminal gang have been arrested by men of Oyo State Police Command. The officers of the command were able to foil the planned attack already hatched a day before the hoodlums struck. The Police Public Relations Officer for Oyo…
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Report Yourself To Nearest Police Station – Ogun Police Urge Singer Portable After Singer Orders His Boys To Beat Up Young Man (Video)
The Ogun State Police Command has urged fast rising hip-hop musician, Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, to report himself at the nearest police station, over a video clip circulating on social media, where he organised some youths to beat up a young man. The command spokesperson Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Monday, said that the incident happened somewhere…
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APC Yobe North Senatorial Ticket: INEC Advises Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, Machina On What To Do
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) , has advised the incumbent President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and his political rival, Bashir Machina on steps they need to take to have name of one them as the standard bearer of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in the next general election. The electoral body said…
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How Abducted Ogun Worshipers Regain Freedom After Abductors Demand For Money, Foodstuffs, Cigarettes, Gin
Punch Newspaper The two worshippers abducted last Monday by gunmen at the Celestial Church of Christ, Oshofa, Wasimi, in the Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, have been released. The founder of the church, Oluwatomisin Olugbebi, said the victims were released on Saturday. PUNCH Metro had reported that gunmen, who wore masks and fez…
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Renegotiation of 2009 Agreement at Advanced Stage, says ASUU President, Osodeke
Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and the union has reached an advanced stage. The union encouraged its members to remain focused to the end “of the struggle.” The union made this known in a memo titled, “Strike bulletin number 6”,…
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Suspected Political Thugs Attack Convoy of APC Presidential Candidate, Tinubu in Lagos (Video)
Hoodlums suspected to be political thugs on Sunday attacked the convoy of the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos State. Tinubu, according to a report by AIT, was attacked at the Adeniji end of Isale Eko after the former Lagos governor paid a visit to the…
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Terrorists Attack Baptist Church in Kaduna, Reportedly Kill 3, Abduct 36 Worshipers
Suspected Terrorists on on Sunday reportedly killed three worshippers, while no fewer than 36 were abducted after invading a Baptist church in Kaduna. Speaking on the gory development, former Special Adviser on Media to the Governor of Kaduna State, Mr.Reuben Buhari said the attack on Roboh village, Kajuru LGA where 36 people were kidnapped and…