Year: 2022
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ASUU Strike Delaying Payment Of N75,000 Stipends To Education Students – FG
Federal government has said the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was responsible for the delay in the commencement of payment of bursary allowance to students studying education courses in tertiary institutions. The permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, David Gende, who represented the minister, Malam Adamu Adamu at the…
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EndSARS: Abuja panel okays 28 police officers for trial
Vanguard News The Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and other Units of the Nigeria Police Force, has found 72 police officers culpable, even as it okayed 28 of them for prosecution. While the panel, which was led by a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Suleiman…
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Electricity: National grid begins slow recovery after 7th collapse in 2022
Vanguard News MOST businesses and homes were again left without power supply for several hours yesterday after Nigeria’s national grid collapsed again, the 7th time this year. The last national system collapse was recorded on the 13th of June 2022 but the system was deliberately shut down last month by protesting electricity workers. Checks by…
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JAMB sets new guidelines for UTME, other operations
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has come out with new guidelines to ensure seamless conduct of future operational processes, including the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar on Monday in Abuja. The board said the development was…
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ASUU Strike: FG Issues Fresh Order To Vice-Chancellors
Punch Newspaper The Federal Government through the National Universities Commission has ordered vice-chancellors to re-open schools and allow students resume lectures. This was made known in a letter signed by the Director, Finance and Accounts of the NUC, Sam Onazi, on behalf of the Executive Secretary of the commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed. The letter which…
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Endorsement: Northern Elders’ Forum gives Tinubu, Atiku conditions
Punch Newspaper The Northern Elders Forum on Sunday night says it will subject candidates of various political parties seeking the votes of the north to a rigorous interrogation exercise until they are convinced about who has the capacity to fix the country. This clarification was made by NEF Spokesman, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, when he appeared…
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PDP crisis: Atiku moves to break Wike’s ranks, reaches out to allies
Vanguard News Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his team have perfected plans to break the ranks of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. Also, strong indications emerged that Governor Wike and those sympathetic to his cause may be settling for former Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, as…
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Disquiet in PDP NWC over N10 billion nomination fees
The Nation Newspaper Barely 48 hours to the kickoff of the 2023 election campaigns, a fresh crisis has hit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over how the bulk of the over N10 billion realised by the party from nomination fees paid by aspirants have been spent. The National Working Committee (NWC) has been put to…
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7, including child, die as commercial bus catches fire in Lagos
Vanguard News Tragedy struck on Sunday afternoon, when a commercial bus suddenly burst into fire at Iyaana-Oworo, Gbagada area of Lagos State, killing at least seven passengers, including a child. According to an eyewitness, the incident occurred at about 5, pm, as passersby rushed to put out the raging fire. Permanent Secretary of Lagos State…
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Strike: NANS Threatens To Block Portharcourt International Airport, Calabar Itu Highway
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), South-South zone has threatened to block the Portharcourt International Airport, the Calabar Itu high way and shut down critical infrastructures in the zone if the strike action by the Association of Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) persists. The South-South Coordinator, NANS ZONE B, Kings Tamarapreye disclosed this over…