Category: News
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ASUU Accuses FG of Deliberate Attempt To Kill Public Varsities To Promote Private Higher Institutions
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the Federal Government of deliberately stifling and killing public Universities in Nigeria, to promote private ones allegedly owned by the political class. It also alleged the Federal Government has been calculatingly dribbling the union since 2017 in genuinely finding solution to ASUU Federal Government impasse, in…
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Polytechnic Students Get New National President, Other Officials of NAPS (Full List)
The National Association of Polytechnic Students(NAPS), on Thursday, August 26, 2022, inaugurated new executives that will pilot the affairs of thev association for the next year. The inauguration was part of activities to mark the NAPS Inaugural Lecture/ Leadership Summit held at the Civil Engineering Theatre Hall of the Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna State held in…
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EVEN WARS HAVE RULES: ASUU V FG by Olatunde Olayinka Damilola
Preamble Laws would not exist, if orderliness was bestowed on man by nature. In fact, the state of nature abinitio, was gifted to us with so much brute, individualism and social cannibalism, such that it avails all man to live by himself in a form structure of his own. A state Thomas Hobbes mirrored as…
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Uniosun VC Canvases For Review of Varsities Autonomy, Faults ASUU President
The Vice Chancellor, Osun State University, (Uniosun), Professor Clement Adeboye has canvassed the need for the Federal Government to review the autonomy granted universities in the country with a view to ensure efficiency in the system. This is as he described statement credited to the President of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel…
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Just In: Wike, Ortom, Ikpeazu Return To Nigeria, Speak on Meeting With Tinubu, Others (Video)
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, his Benue state counterpart, Governor Samuel Ortom and Ikpeazu of Abia were on Friday returned to the country after having series of meetings with some political bigwigs outside the country. The trio who are serving as governors in their respective states met along side other members of the Peoples…
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Nigeria’s GDP Improves by 3.54% in Q2 2022
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, says Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, grew by 3.54 per cent in the second quarter of 2022 on a year-on-year basis. This is contained in a statement issued by Prince Semiu Adeniran, the Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, on the Nigerian…
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Amidst ASUU Strike, Education Minister Jets Out of Nigeria
Punch Newspaper Amidst the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the minister of education, Adamu Adamu is said to be out of the country, The PUNCH reliably learnt. A highly reliable source disclosed this in an interview with Punch correspondent on Thursday in Abuja. Though the source did not disclose the country…
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U.S. Gives Update on Trial of Hushpuppi
The United States Attorney’s Office for Central District of California, Los Angeles, says the September 21, 2022 sentence date for alleged international Internet fraudster Ramon Abbas, aka, Hushpuppi, remains unchanged. The court’s Director of Media Relations, Thom Mrozek, made this known on Friday in response to an email inquiry by Channels Television. Since Hushpuppi’s conviction…
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Shettima Reacts To Choice of Dressing To NBA Conference (Video)
The vice-presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, has reacted to his choice of dressing to the Nigeria Bar Association conference on Monday adding that, he deliberately wore sneakers to the colourful event. Shettima had become a trending topic on social media and even the subject of a ‘challenge’ over his choice…
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Just In: Striking Varsity Union Conditionally Suspends Strike
One of the striking varsity unions, the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has conditionally suspended its strike for three months. The action was hinged on the earlier suspension of the strike by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of University and Allied Institutions (NASU). Ibeji Nwokoma, the…