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The Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Wednesday, ordered the Federal Government to pay N500 million as damages to the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, for forcefully abducting and renditioning him from Kenya in June last year. Presiding Judge, Justice Evelyn Anyadike, also declared Kanu’s extraordinary rendition from Kenya…

The Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, is set to marry his sixth wife, Temitope Adesegun, today. This development is made known by the spokesman of the monarch, Yera Moses Olafare, via his Facebook page on Sunday. As the monarch is set to take his new bride into the palace today, Daily Trust highlights things…

Vanguard News SOCIO-POLITICAL group, One-on-One-Network yesterday accused Governor Nyesom Wike of plotting to unleash political violence against opponents in Rivers state with the State Government engagement of 28,359 aides across the state ahead of the 2023 general elections. Suspicions have been mounting since Wike on Tuesday announced with immediate effect, the appointment of 28,000 advisers…

Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities is still awaiting the decision of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on the no-work-no-pay rule invoked by the Federal Government since its strike began eight months ago, The PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondent learnt that the President’s decision on the matter is key to a…

Punch Newspaper Branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will commence traditional voting today (Tuesday)and tomorrow (Wednesday) over the ongoing strike by the union, The PUNCH gathered. The decision of the various branches will be transmitted to the National Executive Council for final decision. A highly-placed source within the NEC disclosed this in a…

Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU is set to sue the Federal Government over the registration of the Congress of Nigerian Universities Academics and the National Association of Medical and Dental Academics. ASUU’s lawyer, Femi Falana, said this on Channels Television, on Thursday.The minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, had on…

President Muhammadu Buhari has faulted the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU over the protracted strike that has kept millions of Nigerian undergraduates of school for over seven months. The president spoke during the 4th national summit on diminishing corruption in the public sector, held at the State House Conference Centre,…

Punch Newspaper The Northern Elders Forum on Sunday night says it will subject candidates of various political parties seeking the votes of the north to a rigorous interrogation exercise until they are convinced about who has the capacity to fix the country. This clarification was made by NEF Spokesman, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, when he appeared…

Former Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki has gave reasons behind his silent over the series of crisis rocking the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP . Saraki, who just returned from an annual vacation, went straight to Akwa Ibom State to join the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the state’s creation. Saraki said…