Category: News
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APC may unveil Tinubu’s running mate Wednesday, party focuses on North-East
Punch Newspaper There are indications that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, may unveil his running mate on Wednesday. The PUNCH learnt that Tinubu would conclude consultations with the party’s stakeholders, including governors on Tuesday and would announce his running mate on Wednesday. It was also learnt that the APC governors and…
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Tertiary Institutions Fail To Utilize 405,256 Admission Quotas – JAMB
Punch Newspaper The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has revealed that tertiary institutions in the country has failed to fill 405,256 admissions quotas. The PUNCH reports that this development is coming at a period when the country is witnessing an increase in the number of admission seekers yearly. In 2021, the board stated that…
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Nigeria Politics as a platform of self interest By Ishowo Malik Ayomide
. By:Ishowo Malik Ayomide Nigeria is evidently big and diverse so much that the refusal to employ a good political ideology like federalism could be said as a tacit support for the eruption of violence. However the leaders are unaware of this because of their limited understanding about political stuffs or even because they are…
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Tinubu Campaign Organisation Clears Air On Viral Manifesto of APC Presidential Candidate
The campaign organisation of the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Sunday, reacted to a viral document being peddled on cyber space as Tinubu’s manifesto. The organisation while disassociating itself from the document claimed that the peddled document was a mere draft and suggestions on the programmes Tinubu is expected…
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ASUU Strike: FG Team Fails to Meet Deadline To Resolve Issue
Vanguard News The Prof. Nimi Briggs-led committee set up the Federal Government to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement signed by the government with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and put an end to the ongoing industrial action by the union has failed to meet the three-month time frame given it by the FG to…
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Strike: ASUU President Expresses Hope Over Ongoing Negotiation With FG
Nigerian Tribune The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed hope that its ongoing negotiation with the Federal Government over their long-standing differences that have crippled academic activities in the nation’s public universities for about five months now would be over soon. The President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, gave this hope in…
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FG Gives Update On Physical Screening For Selected N-Power Stream 2 Applicants
By Olaiya Lateef Kayode The federal government through the National social investments management system, NASIMS, has urged applicants who have been shortlisted for N-Power stream 2 to log on to NASIMS portal for updates on the physical verification exercise. The update was posted on Sunday via the official twitter handle of N-Power. Applicants who have…
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Varsity Approves Demotion of 3 Professors
The Modibbo Adamawa University, MAU, Yola, has approved the demotion of three professors for alleged academic-related infractions. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration, Prof. Muhammad Ja’afaru made this known at a three-year anniversary of Prof. Abdullahi Tukur, MAU’s Vice-Chancellor, on Saturday in Yola. He said the action was subject to disciplinary processes and the university council ratified…
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Full Text of President Muhammadu Buhari Last Democracy Day Speech
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF COMMEMORATION AND CELEBRATION OF DEMOCRACY DAY 12TH JUNE, 2022 Fellow Nigerians, Today, June The 12th, marks another Democracy Day anniversary and an occasion to celebrate freedom and unity of our…
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We Will Go Back To Classroom Once You Take Up Our Struggle – ASUU President Tells Parents
The National President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke has said that one of the ways in which the union might consider going back to classroom is when the parents who have their wards in public universities take up its struggles to the doorstep of federal government which is to revitalize…