Year: 2022
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Varsty Shut Down For Two Weeks Over Flooding
Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro, has been shut down for two weeks by the government as a result of the ravaging flood that has negatively affected most parts of the institution. The state Commissioner for Higher Education, Dr. Kingsley Ashibuogwu, announced the immediate closure of the university on Friday during an emergency…
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Why I Claimed #Lekkishooting Was Photoshopped – Retired Army General, Eneche
Major General John Enenche (retd.) has said he claimed the #Lekkishooting was photoshopped because of an oath of allegiance he swore on commission into military service. Enenche made this assertion in a press statement issued via his official Twitter handle on Friday. He said, “Dear country men and women, following my appointment on the campaign…
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ASUU Strike Must Never Happen Again – Gbajabiamila
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Honorable Femi Gbajabiamila, said all hands must be on deck to ensure academic strikes in universities become a thing of the past. The Speaker made the remarks in a statement welcoming the end of an eight-month long strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. ASUU…
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Strike:Vice Chancellors Identify Major Issue Responsible For Disagreement Between FG, ASUU
VICE chancellors of the nation’s public universities have identified trust issues as being responsible for the incessant disagreements between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, resulting in crises. To this end,they have vowed to end the ugly trends through their collective interventions. The vice-chancellors, operating under the aegis of the…
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FG Apologies To Students, Parents Over Protracted ASUU Strike, Makes Promise
The Federal Government on Friday tendered unreserved apology to Nigerian students and parents over the protracted industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Univetsities, ASUU The leadership of the public University lecturers early hours of Friday conditionally suspended the eight month strike it embarked upon on February 14 as a result of…
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Polytechnic Student Convicted Over $9,891 Fraud in Kwara
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday secured the conviction of 31-year-old Bashiru Azeez Seyi from Oyan in Odo-Otin Local Government Area of Osun State over offences bordering on internet fraud. Bashiru, a student in the Marketing Department of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin was charged on one count…
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ASUU Directs Members To Resume Work Today, Friday
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has directed its members to resume all services hitherto withdrawn with effect from 12:01 on Friday. The ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, President said this in a statement issued at the end of the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) emergency meeting on Friday in Abuja. Osodeke said the…
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ASUU Gives Reasons For Suspension of 8-month-old Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has explained that it suspended its eight months old strike due to the order of the Court of Appeal and various appeals by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and other well meaning Nigerians to it . To this effect,the lecturers’ union…
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Nnamdi Kanu Has Cases To Answer – FG Clears Air On Appeal Court Ruling
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami (SAN) has said the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu was not acquitted by the Court of Appeal. He said the appellate court only decided a single issue that borders on rendition. He said Kanu has other pre-rendition cases to…
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Just In: ASUU Suspends 8-month-old Strike
Vanguard News The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old strike conditionally. According to reports reaching Vanguard, the union ended the strike after a meeting by its leadership on Thursday night, which lasted into the early hours of Friday. The meeting was called by the union to determine its next line of…