Category: News
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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…
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‘On Your Mandate We Shall Stand’, Students Chant, as Tinubu Meets NANS Leadership (Video)
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu alongside with his recently picked vice presidential candidate, Senator Shettima, Wednesday met with the Leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students ( NANS) in Osogbo & has promised to intervene in the lingering ASUU strike and ensure a lasting solution. Tinubu…
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Minister Reveals Trillions of Naira Needed To Pay Proposed ASUU, NASU, SSANU Wage Increase
ThisDay Live The federal government has said the proposal made by the Prof. Limi Briggs-led Committee in relation to the demands by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions in universities would gulp N1.12 trillion to implement. Also, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has said contrary…
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Nigerian Business Mogul, Aliko Dangote Ranks 63rd Richest Man in World, as Tesla Boss Tops List (Full List)
Nigerian business mogul, Aliko Dangote has been ranked as the 63rd richest billionaire in the world, according to the latest ranking by Bloomberg. In the ranking released on Wednesday, the Chief Executive Officer of Tesla, Elon Musk, is listed as the richest billionaire. The Kano-born billionaire moved up 37 places on the recent Bloomberg billionaire…
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ASUU to Buhari: Meet with Briggs led-re-negotiation committee if your enough is truly enough
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to meet with the Prof. Nimi Briggs-led Committee on negotiation. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osekede said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja. The Briggs committee which was set up by the Federal Government on June…
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PDP Chieftain Resigns Over Alleged Unjust Treatment of Governor Wike
The North-East Zonal Treasurer of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Galadima Abba Itas, has resigned as a member of the party in Bauchi State.PDP In a letter of resignation dated Tuesday, July 12, 2022 and addressed to the PDP ward chairman in Itas, Itas-Gadau local overnment area of the State, he said his resignation…