Month: September 2022

  • PDP Crisis: What Makinde Demands From Atiku

    Oyo State Governor, Engineer ‘Seyi Makinde on Wednesday demanded that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, must resign. Makinde demanded Ayu’s resignation when the South-West PDP stakeholders met with the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in Ibadan, the state capital. The governor said Ayu must step down so that southerners will…

  • ASUU Strike: FG Reacts To Blockage of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by NANS

    ASUU Strike: FG Reacts To Blockage of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by NANS

    The Federal Government, on Wednesday, said that the protesting members of the National Association of Nigerian students, NANS, that blocked a traffic-laden section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway are “violating” the country’s law. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, stated this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal…

  • Atiku Meets Makinde, Fayose, Other PDP Stalwarts in Ibadan (Video)

    The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday met Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose and other party stalwarts in South-West. The meeting, which is to discuss the future of the party ahead of the 2023 general elections. is took place in Ibadan, Oyo…

  • ASUU strike: Monarch, others stranded as protesting students block Lagos-Ibadan expressway

    ASUU strike: Monarch, others stranded as protesting students block Lagos-Ibadan expressway

    Vanguard News Motorists plying the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway were yesterday, stranded for hours, as protesting university students blocked the road in protest against the continued strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The students, who acted under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, blocked the road at the…

  • Okowa Most Qualified To Be Atiku’s Running Mate – Ayu

    The Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and Governor of Delta State, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, is the most qualified to be the running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, stated on Tuesday. According to him, the PDP looked around and found out that Okowa was the one best suited…

  • ASUU Strike: Reverse ‘No-Work, No-Pay’ Policy, NANS Tells Buhari

    The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse the no-work-no-pay policy on the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU . NANS in a statement made available to Punch in Abuja by the coordinator of NANS South-West, Emmanuel Olatunji, the association made this known during a protest on the…

  • Man Who Predicts Queen Elizabeth’s Death Makes Shocking Prediction About King Charles III

    A man, Logan Smith who predicted the date of Queen Elizabeth II’s death has also given a shocking prediction a warning over the newly crowned King, Charles III. Smith, with the Twitter name @logan_smith526, had initially posted in July 2022 that Britain’s longest-serving monarch would die on September 8, 2022. The specific date, to the…

  • N1.1tn revitalisation fund no longer applicable to economic reality – ASUU

    N1.1tn revitalisation fund no longer applicable to economic reality – ASUU

    Vanguard The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has described the N1.1 trillion outstanding revitalisation fund for the nation’s universities as no longer applicable going by the current economic realities. The chairman of the Ebonyi State University chapter of the Union, Dr. Ikechukwu Igwenyi made this statement on Tuesday while addressing newsmen in Abakaliki, the…

  • Buhari Arrives Imo on One Day Working Visit

    President Muhammadu Buhari has on Tuesday arrived Imo state where he is on a one day working visit to commission projects that have been completed by Governor Hope Uzodimma-led administration. The roads to be commissioned is the first phase of 56km Orlu-Okigwe road and the Orlu -Owerri road. Upon his arrival, the governor Uzodinma and…

  • ASUU Strike: Nigeria May Not Produce Medical Doctors in 2022- Osibogun

    President of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, NPMCN, Prof. Akin Osibogun, is of the opinion that Nigeria may not produce new medical doctors in 2022 as a result of the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Warning of the consequnces of such development, Osibogun, who spoke to journalists in…