The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its over five months old strike action by another four weeks. Its National President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke in a statement today, said the decision to further extend the strike is to enable the Federal Government satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues…
The Labour Party (LP) in Gaube electoral ward welcomed nearly 200 defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kuje Area Council, Federal Capital Territory on Monday, July 25, 2022. “Labour Party is coming with full force to rewrite the narrative of democracy in…
A truck laden with petrol collided into a car and spilt its contents on the road in the Funsho Williams Avenue neighborhood of Surulere, Lagos State. Some residents eventually came out with kegs and buckets to scoop the petrol that had spilled onto the road. Adeseye Margaret, Director of the…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has regigned on Thursday, July 7, following a revolt within his Conservative Party. In an address to the nation at Downing Street, he said that the process of choosing a new prime minister “should begin now.” “It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative…
The Federal Government has on Monday reacted to the call by the United States Republican Senators asking for the re-designation of Nigeria as a country of particular concern because of alleged persecution of Christians. According to News Agency of Nigeria, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in…
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and four others, over the real age of David Nwaminyi Ukpo. Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS); Stanbic-IBTC Bank; United Bank of Africa (UBA) and…
Lagos State Government has launched a ‘Floating Clinic Boat’ for inland waterways medical emergency and riverine communities medical outreach services as part of efforts to increase access to prompt, qualitative and efficient health care services on the waterways and riverine communities across Lagos. The Floating Clinic Boat; a brain child…
Twenty-two more senators of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) are planning to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the APC, Femi Fani-Kayode has said. He stated that the planned defection is because the senators were denied the party’s ticket to…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from ending voter registration on 30 June 2022. Honourable Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon (Court 10) on Monday granted an order of interim injunction following the hearing of an argument on motion ex parte by the Socio-Economic Rights…
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday said it has found one Mary Ngoshe who is believed to be one of the girls kidnapped from Chibok community in the northeastern state, in 2014. They disclosed this in a tweet posted on their Twitter page on Wednesday morning. According to the statement by…
