Category: News
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SERAP Threatens To Drag President Buhari To Court Over Lingering ASUU Strike
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has said it will take a legal action against President Muhammadu Buhari over the lingering strike embarked on by public universities’ lecturers. SERAP said this on its verified Twitter handle @SERAPNigeria on Friday. Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, started a strike action on February 14 to demand,…
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Alleged Organ Harvesting: Court Grants Embattled Former DSP, Ekweremadu’s Request
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the request of embattled former Deputy Senate President,Ike Ekweremadu to mandate Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, to release the official bio-data of David Ukpo Nwamini. Recall that Ekweremadu and wife had, in the application dated and filed on June 27 by Awomolo, sued NIMC and four others. Others…
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Amid Rumored Meeting With Tinubu, Governor Wike Drops Cryptic Message
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike of Rivers who lost the presidential ticket of the main opposition party to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has dropped a cryptic message on social media. In a Facebook post on Thursday, Joe Igbokwe, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, claimed Wike met with the ruling party Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola…
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Travel Agent in Lagos Court For Allegedly Defrauding Intending Hajj Pilgrims of N25 Million
A travel agent, Sharafadeen Irorun has been dragged before Lagos state high court sitting in Ikeja for allegedly defrauding intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia of the sum of N25 million. The state government docked Irorun before Justice Oyindamola Ogala on a 12-count charge of stealing and obtaining money under false pretences. The prosecutor, Olawale Ijabike…
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Taraba Govt Debunks Expulsion of Protesting Secondary Students in Viral Video (Watch the Protest here)
Taraba State Government through the Ministry of Education says a committee has been set up to unravel the circumstances that surround the viral video of secondary school students protesting over poor learning conditions in their school. Commissioner for Education says none of the protesting students was expelled as purported in some quarters. A viral video…
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Nigerian Army Reacts To Ambush On Military Officers by Terrorists in Niger
The Nigerian Army has confirmed that its troops deployed in Shiroro area of Niger were ambushed while on a mission to deal with bandits’ attack on miners in the area. According to media reports, the terrorists killed at least 43 people, including 30 soldiers and seven mobile policemen in the daring attack. The director, Army…
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Action Alliance Leadership Speaks On Lawsuit Against Tinubu
The leadership of the Action Alliance, AA, on Thursday in Lagos dispelled the alleged litigation instituted against the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu. Adekunle Omoaje, national chairman of AA, said in a statement that the APC presidential standard bearer, had not committed any offence that would warrant court case against him…
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Reasons For Delay in Emergence of Tinubu’s Running Mate – Report
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is yet to name his running mate for the 2023 presidential poll due to unyielding vested interests. LEADERSHIP Friday gathered that some North West and North East governors elected on the platform of the APC are not ready to budge on their decision to…
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University Unions Strike: Labour To Embark On Nationwide Protest
Vanguard News ABUJA—BARRING any last minutes change, the organized labour has threatened to embark on a nationwide protest over the inability of the Federal to settle its differences with the four university-based unions that led to the shutting down of public universities. Recall that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU withdrew their services on…
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Physical Assault: Ten Days After, Portable Honors Police Invitation
Ten days after Ogun State Police Command invited controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as ‘portable’ over physical assault on a young man in a viral video, the singer on Wednesday honored the police invitation. The public relations officer of the command, DSP Ambimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in…