Year: 2022
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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…
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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…
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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…
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N1.1tn revitalisation fund no longer applicable to economic reality – ASUU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of Universities, ASUU has described the N1.1 trillion outstanding revitalisation fund for the nation’s universities as no longer applicable going by the current economic realities.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…
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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…
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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…
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ASUU Strike: NANS To Occupy Lagos-Shagamu Expressway Way Tuesday
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, South-West zone, on Monday, announced the occupation of Lagos-Shagamu Expressway in protest of the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU . According to the association, the protest was organised as a result of the lingering strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.…
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JAMB Abolishes Mop-up UTME, Takes Position on Bio-metric Capturing
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will no longer conduct mop-up examinations for candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) who are not bio-metrically verified. The board made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the office of the Registrar on Monday in Abuja. It said the move was to further…
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ASUU Strike: Nigerians React To FG’s Court Involvement
Some parents in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have expressed mixed reactions as the Federal Government referred the dispute with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, NICN. Some parents who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday said that it was unnecessary for the Federal…
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Two Children Killed After Fence Collapses in Lagos School
A fence collapsed at a Lagos school, Covenant Point Academy at Ajose Street, in the Amukoko area of Lagos State has left two children, Samat Saheed and a yet-to-be-identified girl dead. Vanguard gathered that the nine-year-old girl was walking past the front of the school to link her destination in the area while three-year-old Samat…