Month: December 2024

Punch Newspaper Some yet-to-be-identified members of a car-snatching syndicate have shot dead a lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Dr Fabian Osita. The incident, it was gathered, occurred on Monday night near the high-tension area in Aroma in Awka, the state capital, as the deceased was driving home from work. One of the sources…

Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) has launched a groundbreaking Strategic Plan for 2025-2050, aiming to transform the institution into a world-class center of academic excellence and research innovation, while simultaneously grappling with substantial electricity costs that drain nearly N195 million from its monthly budget. The plan was unveiled during a management conference titled ‘Envisioning a Great…

The federal government has renamed the University of Abuja, which is now to be known as Yakubu Gowon University. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, revealed the decision to journalists at the State House on Monday, following a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu. The renaming is in…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced a landmark arrest of a total number of 792 suspects for offences bordering on cryptocurrency investment fraud and romance scam. EFCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Wilson Uwujaren, who briefed journalists at the commission’s office in Lagos on Monday said the suspects were apprehended on Tuesday, December…

The Supreme Court, on Monday, ruled on a suit seeking to sack President Bola Tinubu from office as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria . The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a five-member panel of justices, awarded a fine of N5 million against the plaintiff, Chief Ambrose Owuru, who was the…

Daily Trust Citizens have said they are expecting more developmental projects and programmes from governors following the increases in the fiscal estimates proposed for the 2025 by various state governments. Analysis by Daily Trust showed that 32 of the 36 governors have proposed a total sum of N21.9 trillion in the appropriation bills presented to…

A former presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Owuru, has approached the Supreme Court, praying it to sack President Bola Tinubu from office. Owuru, who was the presidential flag-bearer of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, in the 2019 general election, in the legal action he filed directly at the apex court, among other things, maintained that president…

The police in Benue State have arrested a lecturer over his alleged involvement in the abduction of Mrs Susan Anyagh, wife of the chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the Joseph Sawuaan Tarka University, Makurdi (JOSTUM). The spokesperson of the police in the state, SP Catherine Anene, in a statement on…

Vanguard News As politicking for the 2027 general elections accelerates, the rank and file of opposition political parties, especially the Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are being decimated. While the PDP is having its fair of internal wrangling which has led to the resignation of some party members, the LP is…

The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has decried the state of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU’s environment, urging the institution to emulate the University of Lagos, UNILAG. She also lamented the presence of commercial motorcyclists (Okada), saying such site is hardly seen on UNILAG campus. Speaking at the University’s 48th convocation ceremony in Ile-Ife, Osun State,…