Category: News
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ASUU, CONUA, Send Message To FG Over Funds Allocated For Varsity in 2023 Budget
Vanguard News Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and those of the Congress of University Academics, CONUA, have said the allocation of N470 billion in next year’s budget by the Federal Government is not enough to solve the problems confronting public universities in the country According to the lecturers, what can be…
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Watch as South Sudan President Urinates on Himself at Public Function (Video)
A video which has now gone viral online shows President Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan urinating on himself at a public function, to the dismay of his aides and military officers nearby. Mr Mayardit, 71, has been the president of the troubled northeast African country since its founding in 2011 and has continued to…
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18-month After Legal Tussle, Killers of UNILORIN Student To Die By Hanging
Vanguard News After one and half years legal tussle, an Ilorin High Court on Tuesday sentenced killers of Olajide Blessing Omowumi, a 300 level student of the University of Ilorin, to death by hanging. The deceased, who would had turned 26 years this year, was raped and murdered in a merciless manner by the assailants.…
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2023: Tinubu Not Lagos Indigine – Bode George Insists
A prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has insisted that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has insisted that, the former Lagos State Governor is not an indigene of the state. George stated this on Tuesday morning while featuring on Arise TV’s Morning Show, where…
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PDP crisis: Wike, Okowa, Ortom in airport drama
The Nation Newspaper The scene was the Makurdi Airport and the dramatis personae were three Peoples Democratic (PDP) governors – Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Samuel Ortom (Benue) and Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta). Ortom, whose mission was to receive the leader of the Group of Five (G-5) aggrieved governors, was the first to arrive at the airport to…
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Lecturers in Private Varsities Desperate To Become Professors – NUC
Punch Newspaper The National Universities Commission has decried what it described as the desperation of some academics to become professors. In a bulletin obtained by our correspondent on Monday, the NUC also noted that two high-powered committees had been set up to check the excesses in the system. According to the bulletin, the committees inaugurated…
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Nigerian Man Who Left Jos For Saudi Arabia on Bicycle After 9-month Journey Welcomed by Ambassador (Video)
Nigerian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Yahaya Lawal, has welcomed Aliyu Bala, the Nigerian who rode a bicycle from Jos in Plateau State to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A statement from the embassy in Jeddah made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said that Bala had been granted all the needed consular assistance…
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Two Secondary School Students Arrested in Oyo For Allegedly gang-rapping 17-year-old Student
Punch Newspaper Two secondary school students of Monatan High School, Ibadan, Oyo State, have been arrested by men of the state police command for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl. The incident happened around 8pm at Moricas community in the Oluyole Local Government Area of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that the victim was lured into…
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Again, Hoodlums Attack INEC Headquarters in Imo, 3 Killed
Vanguard News Hoodlums on Monday morning attacked and burnt the Imo state headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, located along Port Harcourt road in Owerri. Confirming the incident, the Public Relations Officer, PRO, Chinenye Chijioke-Osuji, confirmed the ugly development. The attack was said to have happened between 2 am to 3 am Monday…
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Hit-and-run Vehicle Crushes Son of Former Lagos State Governor
Dr Olaolu Mudashiru, the son of a former Lagos Military Governor Group Captain Gbolahan Mudashiru, has been killed by a yet-to-identified motorists. Olaolu was hit while cycling with two other persons on the Bourdilion Road in Ikoyi, Lagos State on Sunday morning. He was hit by a hit and run car who fled the accident…