Category: News
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Unknown Gunmen Attack Ondo Police Station, Kill Police Inspector
Some heavily armed gunmen, in the early hours of Monday attacked a police station in Akure, the Ondo state capital, killing a police inspector, Temenu Boluwaji. Several other police men on duty reportedly sustained injuries during the heavy shoot out between the policemen and the gunmen Vanguard gathered that the Okuta Ekerinla police station situated…
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Strike: ASUU Adamant on Renegotiated Agreement
The Nation Newspaper Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has insisted on the signing of the draft agreement reached with the Federal Government for university teachers. Its president, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, said the union was yet to receive official communication from the government regarding a new proposal on salary review. Labour said it would go…
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President Buhari Restates Commitment To #EndASUUStrike
President Muhammadu Buhari, in the course of the week, reiterated the determination of the Federal Government towards bringing to an end strikes embarked upon by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions in nation’s tertiary institutions. The President’s position was made known in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media…
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Presidency Reacts To Terrorist Threat To Wreak Havoc on Nigeria
The Presidency on Sunday, reacted to the threat issued by the terrorists in a viral video to wreak havoc on the country adding that the country’s security and defense forces are battle ready to deal decisively with the terrorists anywhere they are. The Presidency also explained that the dilemma the security forces are having in…
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Strike: SSANU, NASU Send Message To FG on UTAS, U3PS, IPPIS
The teaching staff in the universities have urged the the Federal Government to make public the results of the integrity tests carried out on the three payment platforms, the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, the University Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System, U3PS and the the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System IPPIS. This is…
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Strike: Why Varsities May Cancel Session, Merge Admission – Report
Vanguard News With the industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, entering its fifth month, some public universities in the country may consider cancelling an academic session and merging 2021 and 2022 admission exercises. Also, investigation by Vanguard showed that more candidates did well in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation…
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Man Feared Dead While Separating Fight Between Hausa and Yoruba Man in Ibadan
There was a pandemonium at MKO Abiola Way, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Sunday following the death of a lottery kiosk operator, popularly known as Baba Ijebu, Mufutau Sanni, whose death was as a result of injury sustained while trying to separate a fight between an Hausa man and his Yoruba counterpart. According to…
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Atiku’s Interview Deepens Anger in Wike’s Camp
The Nation Newspaper The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, may have compounded his sour relationship with Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike after suggesting that he could not work amicably with the governor as running mate. Asked on Arise Television on Friday why he picked Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa over and…
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Kuje Escapee Threatens To Wreak Havoc on Nigeria (Video)
Daily Trust One of the terrorists who escaped from Kuje Prison in Abuja during the July 5, 2022, invasion has threatened to wreak havoc on Nigeria. Daily Trust had reported how the train abductors jubilated after the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) invaded Kuje Prison in Abuja and freed over 800 inmates, including…
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48 hrs to pro-ASUU Prorest: NLC Mobilises Big Time as More Critical Sector Unions Join
Vanguard News Mobilisation for the two-day nationwide protest by Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in solidarity with striking university workers, has reached feverish point as more critical industrial unions have keyed into the protest. This came as NLC berated the Minister of Information, Lai Muhammed, for accusing it of planning to cause anarchy with the planned…