Category: News
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Updated: Wike’s Camp Pulls Out of Atiku’s Campaign Council
The Nation Newspaper The team of the Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has pulled out of the campaign Council of the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. Rising from their stormy meeting in Port Harcourt early morning on Wednesday, members of the team vowed not to partake in Atiku’s campaign activities…
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Students To Block Abuja Airport, Kaduna Road Today
The Punch The National Association of Nigerian Students has said its members will block the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja and Kaduna-Abuja Expressway on Wednesday (today) as part of its protest against the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The PUNCH had reported that students, on Monday, blocked the access roads…
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INEC Clears Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, 15 others for 2023 Poll
The Nation Newspaper The coast is clear for 18 presidential candidates to contest in next year’s election. Eminent politician Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (All Progressives Congress), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party), Peter Obi (Labour Party), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso (New Nigeria Peoples Party) and Adebayo Adewole (Social Democratic Party) were among standard bearers cleared…
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Strike: What Kind of Teaching Will Students Get, If Court Forces Us To Work? – ASUU Asks
Vanguard News The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has wondered what manner of teaching the lecturers will give to students if they were forced by the courts to go back to the work against their will. It will be ASUU has been on strike since February this year…
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What FG, ASUU Should Do To End #ASUUStrike – Gbajabiamila
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) must shift grounds to end the lingering strike by the university lecturers. He said this while addressing ASUU president, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, and top members of the union, minister of state for education and other…
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Strike: NANS Rolls Out Timetable For Nationwide Protest
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has rolled out a new timetable for its nationwide protests. In the timetable, signed by the ‘President-Elect’ of the student body, Usman Barambu, dated Monday, NANS scheduled the protests to hold zone by zone, from its Zone A to Zone E, with Abuja being the location for a…
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Senate President Loses Out, as Akpabio, Others Make Final List Released by INEC
Vanguard News Senate President Ahmad Lawan may have finally lost out in his bid to return to the red chamber following the omission of his name from the final list of candidates for next year’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections. This was as the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC published the names of All Progressives…
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20-year-old Man Narrates How He Raped, Strangled Teenage Girl To Death in Oyo Church
Operatives of Oyo State Police Command have arrested a 20-year-old man, Tosin Kolade, for allegedly raping and killing a teenage girl, Ifeoluwa Apanpa. The suspect, who was paraded on Tuesday told journalists that he lured the girl inside a church where he raped her and strangulated her to death. The suspect said his mum was…
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Passengers Stranded, as NANS Grounds Activities at Lagos Airport
The National Association of Nigerians Students, NANS, yesterday grounded activities at the country’s main gateway, the Murtala Muhammad Airport, Ikeja, in protest against the continued strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which has kept students at home for over seven months. The students’ body also vowed to extend the protest to the…
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Strike: FG Didn’t Take ASUU To Court – Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, Monday, said the Federal Government did not take the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to court over the prolonged strike by the union. The Minister stated this in Abuja at the public presentation of the NLC at 40 publication, titled, ‘Contemporary History of Working Class…