Month: August 2022

The feud between Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike deepened yesterday. The Board of Trustees (BoT) rejected Wike’s supporters’ demand for the resignation of the National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu. The renewed reconciliation brokered by Senator Walid Jibrin-led BoT is being threatened by a lack of compromise…

Punch Newspaper The industrial dispute between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities may worsen following the insistence of the Federal Ministry of Education that its proposed agreement with the union will not be binding on state varsities. The spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Goong , in an interview…

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu following his inability to resolve the issue between the government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU within the two weeks ultimatum issued by the President Malam. President Buhari had on July 19,…

The Federal Government on Wednesday gave reasons for the approval of the sum of N1,145,000,000.00 for the purchase of vehicles for Niger Republic. There have been outrage over the Federal Government generosity to the neighbouring country as some have questioned why such money should be given to Niger Republic when public universities in Nigerian remained…

The Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, of condemning the use of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS, as the payment system in the universities publicly and romancing same in private. Speaking in a chat with Vanguard Newspaper, the National President, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, also said…

Minister of the Communications and Digital Economy, Profession Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has opposed the proposed imposition of 5% on telecommunications services by Federal Government, saying that the move was ill-timed. This is even as the minister has reaffirmed Federal Government’s determination to reverse the trend of importation of all types of telecommunications products, especially where…

Professor Mustapha Umar Imam, who is part of the recently freed hostages has continued to narrate his harrowing experience when he was in captivity adding that, the terrorists who carried out their abduction on March 28 are organised and have spies all over the country. Imam, recounted his experience in a video broadcast by Arise…