Category: News
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93 Judicial Officers Recommended as Judges, Heads of Courts Across Nigeria (Full List)
About 93 judicial officers have been recommended by the National Judicial Council, NJC as judges and heads of courts across the country. This was disclosed in a statement on Friday by the NJC spokesman, Soji Oye. He said the decision was taken at the Council’s 100 th meeting which was held between January 18 and…
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Just In:, FG Officially Increases Petrol Price Per Litre
Vanguard News The Federal Government has officially increased the price of petrol by 8.8 per cent to N185 per litre, from N170 per litre. The ex-depot price also shot up from N148 per litre to N167. However, Vanguard’s findings show that many filling stations have been selling far above this new price, a situation which…
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Labour Party Slams Suit Against Arise TV, Demands N100 Million Compensation
The National Chairman of Labour Party, Barr. Julius Abure has slammed a suit against the International broadcast medium, Arise TV over allegation of defamation, while demanding compensation of N100 million. Abure said the platform lent its airtime to former secretary of the Labour Party, Comrade Abayomi Arabambi to spew unfounded allegations that smeared his integrity.…
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Withheld salaries: Why FG should handle matter with caution — Osodeke
Vanguard News WITH 17 months lost to industrial actions in the public university system in the country in the last two years, the seeming quietness in the ivory towers may be ruptured again, as various workers unions in the sector take on the Federal Government over their withheld salaries and union dues. After the end…
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3 Suspected ESN Members Killed, as Police Foil Attempt Attack on Station
The firepower of operative of Imo State Police Command subdued wild exuberance of three members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday when some of them led by the armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN) attempted to attack Agwa police station in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo state. The hoodlums had…
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World’s Oldest Woman, Sister André is Dead
The world’s oldest known person, French nun Sister André, has died at age 118 in the southern French city of Toulon, the city’s mayor Hubert Falco said on Wednesday. Born in the southern French town of Ales on Feb. 11, 1904, as Lucile Randon, Sister André was listed as the oldest person alive by the…
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Delta Woman Narrates How Lagos Governor, Sanwo-olu Allegedly Impregnate Her in 1995
A Delta-based woman, Grace Moses, has narrated how Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu impregnated her when the former appeared before a Delta State High Court 2 sitting in Effurun, Delta State, on Tuesday, urging governor to come for his alleged biological child. Addressing journalists shortly after the court adjourned the case involving the governor…
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FG Gives CONUA, NAMDA Full Power To Operate
Tribune Online The Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment on Tuesday empowered the Congress of University Academics (CONUA) and the National Association of Medical Doctors in Academics (NAMDA) with copies of their certificate of registration, charging them to fully operate as trade unions in the education sector. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige,…
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Why Registration of CONUA, NAMDA Shouldn’t be Recognized – ASUU President, Osodeke
Vanguard News The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has again, dismissed the registration of the Congress of University Academics, CONUA and the National Association of Medical Doctors in Academics, NAMDA, saying they were inconsequential and of no effect in the Nigerian university system. He described the presence of…
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Just In: FG Meets CONUA Leadership
The Federal government and the leadership of Congress of University Academics (CONUA) are reportedly currently in a closed-door meeting over the withheld eight months’ salaries of the academic workers. According to Daily Trust, the agenda of the meeting was not disclosed but it was gathered that the government and the union were deliberating on the…