Category: News
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Strike: ASUU Sets To Meet Today , To Deliberate On Next Line of Action
There are convincing indications that the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will meet today (Sunday)to deliberate on the next line of action. According to Punch, the union will meet in Abuja to review the ongoing strike, one of the NEC members told Punch. “Yes, we are meeting today on the…
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Hushpuppi: New Legal Advice Exonerates Kyari From Money Laundering Allegation
Vanguard A new twist into the $1.1million hushpuppi internet scam involving suspended Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari and fraudster, Ramon Abass aka Hushpuppi and other accomplices emerged at the weekend with the office of the Attorney General issuing new legal advice exonerating Kyari from money laundering allegations. The office of…
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Nigeria Police Force honours Makinde, Fakorede with Scrabble Award
The Nigeria Police Force in collaboration with the Oyo State government hosted the first IGP National Scrabble Championship on Saturday at Hidden Treasure Hotel and Suites, Oluyole. The event, according to a release made available to Vreporters by the Media Aide to the Commissioner, Kazeem Olalekan Israel was anchored by the Nigerian Scrabble Federation and…
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President Buhari Speaks on APC Crisis, States Position on Convention
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the crisis rocking the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. Buhari In a statement made available by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Garba Shehu, to newsmen warned the leaders (and membership) of the APC to desist from name-calling and backstabbing. He reiterated that the party’s national convention…
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Bamisaye: How I Escaped Being Raped by Accused Lagos BRT Driver, Medical Doctor Raises Fresh Allegation
Punch Newspaper A medical doctor, Onyinyechi Anoke, has narrated how she escaped being raped by Nice Omininikoron, the driver of the Bus Rapid Transit vehicle remanded over the murder of a passenger, Oluwabamise Ayanwola. The doctor is the second lady accusing Nice, who was remanded in prison on Friday, of rape after the death of…
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Police React, as Conscious Lagos Residents Nabbed Dispatch Rider With Baby in Dispatched Box (Video)
Some conscious Lagos residents on Saturday nabbed a yet-to- be- identified dispatch rider at the Sangotedo area of the state over alleged abduction of a toddler. It’s gathered that the abducted child was found and recovered in a dispatch box of the suspect. It was learnt that the dispatch rider was picked at a traffic…
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Secondary School Student Stabs Mate To Death in Akwa Ibom
The Akwa Ibom Police Command said that Samuel Archibong, a student of Community Secondary School, Aka Offot in Uyo has stabbed a schoolmate, James Elijah, to death. Police spokesperson Odiko Macdon, in a statement on Saturday, said the incident occurred on March 10. “This is not the first time we have witnessed an act of…
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Sanction: 5 Things Chelsea Can No Longer Undertake
Vanguard The sanctions placed on Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich means that activities at the London club will reduce to a very small percentage of what it used to be in terms of day-to-day management and revenue generation. To start with, since Abramovich can no longer make money in the United Kingdom due to the ban,…
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Russian Forces Reportedly Abduct Ukranian Mayor
Ukrainian authorities have accused Russian forces of abducting the mayor of Melitopol, a city in southeastern Ukraine that has fallen under Russian control. Anton Heraschenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior ministry, said 10 soldiers entered the premises of Melitopol’s crisis centre on Thursday, put a bag over Mayor Ivan Fedorov’s head and took him to…
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Two Days To Expiration of Ultimatum, ASUU Gives Update on Demands
Punch Newspaper Two days to the expiration of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the National President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke says “nothing tangible has been done”. Saturday PUNCH reports that the union had on Monday, February 14, 2022, declared a total and comprehensive four-week warning strike. The strike,…