Author: Vreporters
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UK Gets New Prime Minister
Leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss will be the next United Kingdom Prime Minister after winning the party vote on Monday. Truss who is the Britain’s Foreign Secretary and set to be the country’s next Prime Minister. She will be replacing Boris Johnson. Truss while speaking in London, said she would deliver. Truss, who…
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Headies Award: Full List of Winners
Some Nigerian musicians cum entertainers outside the shore of the country won big at the 15th edition of the Headies Award. See Full List: Best Recording Of The Year Celebrate Me – Patoranking Lyricist On The Roll A-Q – The Last Cypher Best Rap Single Feeling – Ladipoe Feat. Bnxn Best Vocal Performance (Female) Waje…
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ASUU: Stakeholders Bowing to Boko Haram’s Wishes, say Vice-Chancellors
The Punch Newspaper The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities has said stakeholders in the education sector across the country are succumbing to the missions of the terrorist organisation, Boko Haram, for not resolving the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Speaking in an interview with The PUNCH on Sunday, the chairman…
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Tinubu: More details of working pact with Wike, Makinde, Ortom revealed
Vanguard News Contrary to the speculation that the Governor Nyesom Wike-led group may defect to All Progressives Congress, APC, following its meeting with the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in London, the camp is pondering remaining in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and work for the APC flag bearer, Sunday Vanguard reliably learned. The…
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Desperate Moves To Break ASUU: State universities under pressure to pull out of strike
Vanguard News Education is on the Concurrent List in the 1999 Constitution and it means federal and state governments can legislate on it. The situation accounts for why both tiers of government set up their own universities. With 48 state universities and 43 federal ones as at the last count, the Academic Staff Union of…
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Newly Elected NANS Leadership To Meet FG, ASUU Over Lingering Strike
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…
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Minister Berates ASUU Over Lingering Strike, Insists on ‘No-Work, No-Pay’ Policy
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…
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2023: Pro-Tinubu Group Urges INEC To Disqualifiy Peter Obi
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,…
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Acclaimed Islamic Singer Killed Father, Mother Over Alleged Blasphemy in Jigawa
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…
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ASUU Strike: It’s Time To Register New Varsity Unions – State Varsities Pro-chancellors
Nigerian Tribune The Chairman, Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities in Nigeria (COPSUN), Malam Yusuf Olaolu Ali (SAN), speaks with BIOLA AZEEZ on the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). What, in your view, are the effects of ASUU’s indefinite strike on students, parents, state universities and the nation? IT is…