Category: News
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ASUU Strike: What Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige Told APC Youth Leader, Dayo Israel (Video)
The All Progressives Congress, APC, National Youth leader, Dayo Israel during the weekend made strategic move to wade into the impasse between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the Federal Government over the ongoing strike. Isreal, was seen in a short video making enquiries from the Minster of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige…
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Ooni oof Ife Accused of Owing ex-workers 29 Months Salaries
Foremost traditional monarch, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has been accused by four of his ex-security guards over claims of non-payment of their 29 months’ salaries backlog since 2017. This was disclosed in an open letter to the Ooni via their solicitor Human Rights Lawyer, Mr Femi Aborisade. The ex-security guards who were identified…
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NYSC Speaks On Corps Member Arrested Over Alleged Electoral Malpractice in Osun
The National Youths Service Corps, NYSC has described as unfortunate the reported arrest of a corps member, Orji Nkenna, by the Osun State Police Command. He was said to have been arrested alongside a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission over alleged electoral misconduct. According to the police, Orji, a corps member attached to…
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How Police Rescued 23 Children, 8 Teens, 43 Adults From Church Underground in Ondo – Police
The Ondo State Police Command has revealed how its officers rescued over twenty children and forty three adults from a church that had held them in captivity . Narrating the event in a series of tweets , the Police authorities in the state said the victims were prevented from living normal lives, as the pastor…
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FACT-CHECK: Who Was the First Person to Translate the Qur’an Into Igbo language?
PR Nigeria On Friday, reports emerged that the first translation of the Qur’an into the Igbo language has been published in Nigeria. The translated Qur’an titled “Nso Koran” was launched at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Mosque, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, where Muhammad Murtala Chukwuemeka told the BBC it took him five years to translate the sacred…
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Why I Can’t Be Running Mate To Any Presidential Candidate – Kwankwaso
The Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Saturday, said accepting to be running mate to any presidential candidate would lead to the collapse of NNPP. Mr Kwankwaso, a former Governor of Kano State, who was in Gombe State to inaugurate the state office of NNPP and to meet with…
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Corps Member, INEC Staff Arrested in Osun Over Alleged Electoral Malpractice
Operatives of Osun State Police Command have arrested a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), supervising the collection of voters card, Makanjuola Bilahu over alleged electoral malpractice. Also, a youth corp member attached to the INEC office as an Ad-Hoc staff in charge of voter’s card distribution, Orji Nkenna, was arrested alongside one…
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Scores of Children Reportedly Found in Ondo Church Underground (Video)
Unspecified number of children were reportedly found in an underground apartment of a church in the Valentino Area of Ondo town, Ondo State, on Friday evening. It was gathered that the children were allegedly kidnapped and kept in the underground apartment of the church. A source said victims were over 50 while the police had…
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Continuing ASUU strike a shame on all of us by Farooq Kperogi
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike for nearly five months now. As a consequence, hundreds of thousands of students in public universities are idling away the days doing nothing. They are seething in anger and frustration as they helplessly watch their collective destinies being imperiled by an insensitive and conscienceless…
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PDP Presidential Candidate, Okowa, Masari of APC, Other Vice President Candidate Claim Missing Certificate
Tribune Newspaper MORE presidential and vice-presidential candidates have been found to have informed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that they have lost their academic certificates. Documents displayed by INEC and sighted by Saturday Tribune showed that apart from the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu and his running mate,…