Category: News
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UK Gets New Prime Minister
Leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss will be the next United Kingdom Prime Minister after winning the party vote on Monday. Truss who is the Britain’s Foreign Secretary and set to be the country’s next Prime Minister. She will be replacing Boris Johnson. Truss while speaking in London, said she would deliver. Truss, who…
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Headies Award: Full List of Winners
Some Nigerian musicians cum entertainers outside the shore of the country won big at the 15th edition of the Headies Award. See Full List: Best Recording Of The Year Celebrate Me – Patoranking Lyricist On The Roll A-Q – The Last Cypher Best Rap Single Feeling – Ladipoe Feat. Bnxn Best Vocal Performance (Female) Waje…
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ASUU: Stakeholders Bowing to Boko Haram’s Wishes, say Vice-Chancellors
The Punch Newspaper The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities has said stakeholders in the education sector across the country are succumbing to the missions of the terrorist organisation, Boko Haram, for not resolving the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Speaking in an interview with The PUNCH on Sunday, the chairman…
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Strike: ASUU Set-Up 7-man Committee To Defend Union
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has constituted a seven-man committee to defend the union’s position and refusal to suspend the ongoing strike that is getting to seven months. The committee is expected to respond to any criticisms in the media against the alleged adamant posture of the university teachers to suspend the strike.…
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PDP crisis: Atiku Under Pressure To Break Wike’s Camp’s Ranks
The Nation Newspaper Following alleged refusal of his olive branch, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is being pressured to break the ranks of the governors and other stakeholders supporting Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike. Atiku has joined forces with some highly-placed individuals and his strategists have started reaching…
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Tinubu: More details of working pact with Wike, Makinde, Ortom revealed
Vanguard News Contrary to the speculation that the Governor Nyesom Wike-led group may defect to All Progressives Congress, APC, following its meeting with the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in London, the camp is pondering remaining in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and work for the APC flag bearer, Sunday Vanguard reliably learned. The…
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Desperate Moves To Break ASUU: State universities under pressure to pull out of strike
Vanguard News Education is on the Concurrent List in the 1999 Constitution and it means federal and state governments can legislate on it. The situation accounts for why both tiers of government set up their own universities. With 48 state universities and 43 federal ones as at the last count, the Academic Staff Union of…
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Newly Elected NANS Leadership To Meet FG, ASUU Over Lingering Strike
The newly elected leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) will be meeting the Nigerian government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) towards ending the eight-month-old strike by university lecturers. The new NANS president, Comrade Umar Barambu, disclosed this during an exclusive interview with SaharaReporters on Saturday. Barambu, a student of…
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Minister Berates ASUU Over Lingering Strike, Insists on ‘No-Work, No-Pay’ Policy
The Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah has berated the Academic Staff Union of Universities University, ASUU, over the lingering impasse between the union and the Federal Government. Opiah, while expressing dismay over the more than the 200 days old strike embarked upon by ASUU since February 14th, 2022, said the Federal Government…
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2023: Pro-Tinubu Group Urges INEC To Disqualifiy Peter Obi
A pro-Tinubu group, Tinubu-Shettima Connect, has urged the the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to, without delay, disqualify the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, from the 2023 presidential election. The group has also threatened to commence legal action, intending to join Peter Obi,…