Category: News
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Aggrieved PDP Governors Meets in Lagos Today
Punch Newspaper The five governors opposed to Senator Iyorchia Ayu’s continued stay as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party will on Sunday (today) converge on Lagos for a strategic meeting. A former National Vice Chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George, disclosed this in an interview with Sunday PUNCH on Saturday. He said…
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Tinubu’s Academic Records More Straightforward than Peter Obi – Omokri
Former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri, has come hard on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi. Omokri who is an ardent supporter of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of the PDP, noted that the academic records of the APC candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, was more straightforward than Obi’s school records.…
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ASUU, SSANU Send Message To FG Over Withheld Salaries
Punch Newspaper The Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities have requested that the Federal Government satisfy their requests and pay their members’ salary arrears. At various times, ASUU and other university unions went on strike, demanding better working conditions and the advancement of the nation’s higher education. While…
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Final Year Student Reportedly Commits Suicide After Allegedly Dumped by Girlfriend in Anambra
A final-year student of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra, has committed suicide after his girlfriend reportedly dumped him. The deceased student reportedly took his life on Friday. According to a source, the young man who’s identity is yet to be revealed, took sniper after his lover allegedly told him to…
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2023 Election Not Pay Back Time – Buhari’s Aide, Femi Adesina
Vanguard News Interviewing Mr. Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Mohammadu Buhari always pops out sweet and sour scenarios. Sweet in the sense that he is always a Journalist’s delight, sour to the extent that he is always conscious and picky, editing his dictions on air. I have interviewed Adesina…
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UI Issues Notification on Sale of 2022 Post UTME (See How To Apply)
The management of the University of Ibadan, UI, has issued a notification on the sale of 2022 Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME for candidates who choose the university as most preferred institution and have a minimum of 200 or above. The premier Varsity in a release made available to the public and signed by…
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World Oldest Primary School Pupil, Priscilla Dies at 99 in Kenya
The world’s oldest primary school pupil , Priscilla Sitieni, whose resolve to acquire an education in her 90s inspired a French film and won praise from UNESCO, has died in Kenya aged 99, local media reported. Her grandson, Sammy Chepsiror, told The Standard newspaper that Gogo Priscilla (Granny Priscilla), as she was fondly known, died…
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100-Level Unilag Student Slumps, Dies While Playing Football on Campus
A fresh student of the University of Lagos, UNILAG , Simeon Adokwu, reportedly slumped and died while playing football on the premises of the institution in Akoka, Lagos State last Sunday, November 13. The deceased, who was admitted to study Social Work in the Faculty of Social Science after attending church service, went to play…
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Tinubu’s Family Speaks On APC Presidential Candidate Background, Health, Age
The Guardian The Tinubu family in Lagos has urged Nigerians to discard the rumour surrounding the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s background, health and age. The family maintained that Aiwaju is a bonafide son of Tinubu’s family, while reassuring that the presidential candidate’s health, like any other person older…
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Pay withheld salaries or risk scuttled academic session, ASUU warns FG
Vanguard News Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) Ago-Iwoye, yesterday, took to the street calling on the federal government to pay the withheld salaries of their counterparts in the federal universities. The lecturers, who were led by the branch Chairman, Dr. Joel Okewale, marched from the…