Year: 2023
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Police Give Update on Mohbad’s Autopsy
Punch Newspaper The Lagos State Police Command has said the autopsy report of the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad, conducted two months ago has not been given to them. Today, Tuesday, November 21, 2023, makes it two months since the corpse of the late Mohbad was exhumed and an autopsy commenced to unravel the…
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COEASU kicks against IPPIS implementation in tertiary institutions
The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has asked the federal government to shelve the idea of a centralised payroll management system for public tertiary institutions. Smart Olugbeko, president of the union, said this while reacting to President Bola Tinubu’s recent suspension of the policy mandating public tertiary institutions to remit 40 percent of…
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How Sacked Kano Governor Was Nailed at Appeal Court – Ganduje
The Nation Newspaper The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has revealed the joker used by the party to nail the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) at the Appeal Court last Friday. Ganduje said that the NNPP’s desperation to have a governor in Kano State was its greatest undoing…
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Strike in Varsities Disrupts Life, Wastes Time, Elongates Academic Calendar – President Tinubu
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has kicked against Industrial disharmony in the nations universities, noting that it disrupts life, wastes time and elongates academic calendar. Mr President stated this at the 33rd convocation ceremony of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, noted that ” all avenues for dialogue must be explored and exhausted before strike…
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Nigerian chef, Tope Maggie ‘breaks’ Irish chef, Fisher’s cooking record, awaits confirmation
Nigerian chef, Temitope Adebayo, better known as Tope Maggie has reportedly broken the Guinness World Record for the longest cooking marathon by an individual, surpassing Irish chef, Alan Fisher’s 119-hour and 57-minute record. According to Oyo Affairs on Twitter (X), Chef Maggie completed a 200-hour cook-a-thon which ended in the early hours of Saturday, November…
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FG Gives Nod To Blackboard Digital Learning Platforms in Varsities, Polytechnics, Colleges
Daily Trust Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, says the full deployment of Blackboard digital learning platform in Nigerian tertiary institutions would go a long way to fast-track educational development.Mamman stated this on Thursday in Abuja while receiving a delegation of Anthology Executives from the United States. Mamman said the Blackboard platform being championed by…
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Flash: Appeal Court Sacks Zamfara Governor
Daily Trust The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has voided the election of Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Lawal winner of the March 18 governorship election. But Bello Matawalle of the All Progressives Congress (APC) challenged the victory of Lawal, who ran under the platform…
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Just In: Appeal court fixes Friday, Tomorrow, for judgment on Kano guber dispute
Daily Trust The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has fixed Friday for the judgment in the appeal Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf file to challenge his removal by the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal. A three-man panel of judges led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay had sacked Yusuf on September 20, 2023, by declaring 165,663 of…
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Student blames fatigue as OAU lecturer slumps, dies
Punch Newspaper The academic community of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State has been thrown into mourning following the death of a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Dr. Ayo Ojediran, who reportedly slumped in his office. Sources on the campus said Ojediran was rushed to the institution’s clinic immediately he slumped on Tuesday,…
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Just In: Labour Unions Suspend Nationwide Strike
The Joint National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, have suspended the ongoing strike over the battering of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, among other pending issues. The strike was suspended following the intervention of the Federal Government through the Office of the National…