Category: News
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#OsunDecides: PDP’s Adeleke Speaks After Casting Vote at Poling Unit
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke has cast his vote at his ward Ede, Osun State on Saturday. Adeleke, the main challenger to Governor Adegboyega Oyetola cast his vote Sagba Abogunde Ward 2 Unit 9 in Ede North local government area. The election is expected to be keenly contested between the…
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Why Peter Obi May Become Next Nigeria’s President by Default in 2023
By Farooq Kperogi FACTS I have uncovered from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) show that Labour Party’s Peter Obi may become Nigeria’s president next year by default because Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar, candidates for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) respectively, have violated the Electoral Act 2022, which…
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Osun Poll: Soldiers Arrest NURTW Boss, Others (Video)
Some soldiers on Friday arrested a chieftain of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Osun State chapter, Kazeem Oyewale, popularly known as ‘Asiri Eniba.’ Oyewale, who is the NURTW Chairman, Olorunda unit, was reportedly arrested at his Ojurin, Osogbo motor park office by the soldiers. It was learnt that some other people were also…
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Minister Urges ASUU To Make Compromise Over Lingering Strike
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Chief Sunday Dare, has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities to make compromises, so as to resolve the current nationwide strike by varsity lecturers. Dare made the call when he met with a delegation of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in Abuja. According to him,…
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Varsity Professor To Earn N2 Million Monthly, if….
The Nation Newspaper A professor in the Nigerian university system will earn N2 million monthly salary, if the Federal Government accepts the recommendations of its committee on the 2009 agreements with university-based unions. The committee also recommended varied yearly allowances for professors. The allowances are for postgraduate supervision, field trip, responsibility and hazard, examination/timekeeper and…
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27 Aggrieved APC Youth Groups, NYCN Reject Selection of Shettima as Tinubu’s Running Mate
Aggrieved members of 27 All Progressives Congress (APC) youth groups and the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) have raised dust over the selection of Senator Hashim Shettima as the ideal candidate for the party’s vice presidential slot. The APC standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in announcing Shettima as his running mate, had shunned overtures…
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ASUU Strike: Why FG Rejects Briggs-led Committee’s Report – Source
Vanguard News INDICATION emerged on Thursday that the Federal Government may have rejected the Nimi-Briggs Committee ovon the alleged allocation of pay rise of 180 percent to university teaching staff, while the non teaching staff were given 10 percent. The Federal Government had set up the Briggs-led committee to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement between the…
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Court Sentences Baba Ijesha To 16-year Imprisonment Over Sexual Assault
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court has sentenced Nollywood actor and comedian, Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, to 16 years imprisonment over sexual assault. Justice Taiwo gave the judgment on Thursday, adding that the jail term will run concurrently. Baba Ijesha was convicted for sexually assaulting a…
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Court Convicts Nollywood Comic Actor, Baba Ijesha
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has convicted embattled Nollywood Comic actor, Olanrewaju James, alias Baba Ijesha, of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old minor. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, in a two-hour judgment on Thursday, convicted Baba Ijesha of indecent treatment of a child, sexual assault and attempted sexual assault. Taiwo, however, discharged and acquitted him of count one…
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ASUU President Blasts Ngige For ‘Insulting’ Striking Lecturers
Channels TV President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, on Thursday, blasted the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, over his attitude toward the strike embarked by university lecturers. “What the Minister of Labour has done is a complete insult to the character of people like Professor Nimi…