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State Universities Under Pressure To Pull Out Of ASUU Strike
Education is on the Concurrent List in the 1999 Constitution and it means federal and state governments can legislate on it. The situation accounts for why both tiers of government set up their own universities. With 48 state universities and 43 federal ones as at the last count, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,…
Scores Injured As Boko Haram Invades Ngulde Community In Borno
At least four people have been killed including the Chief Imam of Gima, with several others sustained various degrees of injury when armed members of Boko Haram terrorists invaded Ngulde Community of Askira -Uba local government area in Borno. The terrorists according to investigation were only confined in Tuga, a riverine community, but now deserted,…
Benue Leaders vow resistance against proposed Miyetti Allah vigilante group
Leaders of the three main socio-cultural organizations in Benue State, under the auspices of the Mdzough U Tiv, MUT, Ochetoha K’Idoma, OKI and Omi Ny’Igede, ONI, have vowed to resist the Miyetti Allah’s plot to create its vigilante group in the State. The leaders maintained that a group whose members had allegedly unleashed mayhem in…
High Commission refutes alleged targeted killing of Nigerians in Kenya
The Nigeria High Commission in Kenya has refuted an online media report alleging the targeting and killing of Nigerians in the East African country. In a statement issued in Nairobi on Saturday, a copy of which was received by the News Agency of Nigeria, the Commission described the story as a concoction replete with falsehood….
Insecurity confined to N/East during PDP, now it’s all over Nigeria – Makarfi
Former Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi has said that the insecurity bedeviling Nigeria was confined to the Northeast when the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was in power, but it has escalated to all parts of Nigeria under the All-Progressives Congress (APC). Senator Makarfi , also a former Chairman of the PDP, assured…
Nigerian filmmaker urges FG to create film commission to boost sector’s GDP
A Filmmaker and Director, David Royal Ogbonna has urged the Federal Government at all levels to create a film commission for the industry to strive and contribute more to the country’s GDP. David Royal who graduated from the prestigious Federal University of Calabar, UNICAL in 2017 with 4.3 Grade Point Average [GPA] in the Department…
Call Off Sympathy Strike, Diri Tells NDU Lecturers
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged lecturers at the state-owned Niger Delta University (NDU) to end their seven-month-long sympathy strike with the national body of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Governor Diri insisted that the sympathy industrial action by lecturers of the university was no longer justifiable as they have been…
NPC Will Insulate Conduct Of Census From Politics – Kwarra
Nasir Isa Kwarra, Executive Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), has assured that the conduct of the 2023 Population and Housing Census would be insulated from politics. Kwarra gave the assurance on Monday when he led a team of NPC Federal Commissioners on an advocacy visit to the residence of Chief Edwin Clark in…
