Year: 2022

The newly elected leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) will be meeting the Nigerian government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) towards ending the eight-month-old strike by university lecturers. The new NANS president, Comrade Umar Barambu, disclosed this during an exclusive interview with SaharaReporters on Saturday. Barambu, a student of…

The Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah has berated the Academic Staff Union of Universities University, ASUU, over the lingering impasse between the union and the Federal Government. Opiah, while expressing dismay over the more than the 200 days old strike embarked upon by ASUU since February 14th, 2022, said the Federal Government…

A pro-Tinubu group, Tinubu-Shettima Connect, has urged the the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to, without delay, disqualify the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, from the 2023 presidential election. The group has also threatened to commence legal action, intending to join Peter Obi,…

An acclaimed Islamic singer, Munkaila Ahmadu, of Gagarawa local government area of Jigawa State killed his parents for allegedly committing blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad (SAW).  Ahmadu, 37, a father of five children revealed that his parents were opposed to him becoming a bege singer (one who sings the praises of Prophet of Muhammad).  It was gathered that…

The Nation The lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has ‘influenced’ a casualty in Lafia, Nasarawa State capital with the death of a 300 level student of Public Administration at Nasarawa State University in an auto crash. But for the prolonged strike, the 30-year-old victim, Felix Odonye, would be in school…

Vanguard News It was indeed a case of attempted murder at Government Secondary School, Afikpo, Ebonyi State, when a Junior Secondary School, JSS 1 student, Master Fruitful Onwe was allegedly forced to drink garri soaked with hypo detergent by one Iroh Chidiebere Bright, an SS2 Student of the same School. It was gathered that the…

A man identified as Peter Orji, has allegedly killed his elder brother, Godwin, during an argument bordering on the payment of N1,500 electrical bill at their residence in Uruagu, in the Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State. According to PUNCH Metro, the brothers were at home when they started arguing over Peter’s refusal…