Category: News
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Drunk Soldier Crushes Army General To Death in Lagos
A Corporal in the Nigerian Army, Abayomi Ebun, has crushed to death the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre, NAFRC, Director of Finance, A. O James, with his car in Lagos State. PRNigeria gathered that the incident happened when Mr Ebun, who works at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, NARC, was driving out of the NAFRC…
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Grammy Reveals 2023 Nominees as Burna boy Bags Two Nominations (Full List)
American artiste, Beyonce, led the nominations with nine nods tieing with Jay-Z, her husband, for the most nominations received by any musician in the history of the awards. Kendrick Lamar followed with eight nominations, alongside English artiste, Adele, and Brandie Carlile with seven nominations. Burna boy and Tems are the two Nigerians who made the…
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No-work-no-pay: ASUU Begins Protest
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, UNILAG chapter, yesterday embarked on a protest to express its displeasure over invocation of the ‘no work, no pay’policy of the Federal Government. Recall that the federal government had said the lecturers who were on strike for eight months should be ready to forfeit their salaries in accordance with…
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Half-Salary: Ngige Can No Longer Mediate Amid Industrial Court Case – ASUU President
Channels TV The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, on Tuesday, criticised the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, over his alleged authorisation of the part-payment of salaries to members of the union, following the suspension of its seven-month strike in October. This comes after ASUU in October…
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FG vs ASUU: Court orders service of suit on CONUA, NAMDA
Vanguard News The National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Abuja, has fixed December 13 for continuation of hearing on the protracted dispute between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. It will be recalled that alleged refusal by FG to comply with an agreement it earlier entered into with ASUU, which…
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Just In: Lawmaker Who Slumped at Tinubu’s Jos Rally, ‘Omititi’ is Reported Dead
A lawmaker representing Mushin Constituency II at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sobur Olayiwola Olawale, is dead. Olawale who is fondly called ‘Omititi’ by his political admirers was among the politicians, who stormed Jos, Plateau State capital, for the kick-off of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential campaign. The deceased reportedly slumped at the rally…
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Peter Obi Replies Soludo Over Recent Remarks
Former Governor of Anambra who doubles as the Presidential candidate of Labour Party(LP), Mr Peter Obi has replied Anambra Governor Chukwuma Soludo over his performance as a former Governor. Obi, in a reply on Tuesday, said he prays Soludo corrects his short comings when he was Governor and also make his own impact. Soludo had…
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Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Hits 20.77%
Nigeria’s inflation rate rose from 20.77% in September 2022 to 21.09% in October 2022 amid soaring food prices, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The Bureau also said that food Inflation was 23.72% in October 2022, from 23.34% in September 2022. The NBS made this known in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) report…
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FG Proposes 8-week Mandatory Course For ASUU, NLC, Other Union Leaders
The Federal Government has proposed a mandatory eight-week course at the Michael Imoudu National Institute of Labour Studies, MINILS, for all newly elected labour leaders in the country. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this, during a budget defence of the Ministry and Parastatal Agencies before the House of Representatives Committee on Labour…
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Sex-for-grade: Ugandan Varsity Fires Nigerian Lecturer
A Nigerian lecturer at Kabale University in the Western Region of Uganda, Dr Nafiu Lukman Abiodun, has been fired over his alleged involvement in the sexual harassment of female students. A Ugandan newspaper outlet, Kampala Dispatch reported on Tuesday that the don demanded sex from female students and made those who refused his demands have…