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The Department of State Security (DSS) on Thursday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the ongoing strike. The Director of the Service in charge of Yobe, Mr Yunusa Abdulkadir made the plea in Damaturu at the Third Quarterly Conference of the State Directors of Security in the North-East Zone. […]

The striking Academic Staff Union of Universities will on Friday (today) file an appeal against the ruling of the National Industrial Court which directed its members to resume work, The Punch has learnt. Counsel for ASUU, Femi Falana (SAN), disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Thursday. ASUU has been on strike since […]

The National Industrial Court has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to call off the ongoing Strike. Delivering a ruling on the interlocutory injunction filed by the Federal government, Justice Polycarp Hamman restrained ASUU from continuing with the industrial action pending the determination of the suit. Justice Hamman who is a vacation judge […]

More facts have emerged on how a lawyer and mother of three died in a crash while chasing her husband and an alleged side chick in Calabar last Sunday. The Nation gathered the deceased, Claret Opara Bassey has been married for over 10 years to Mr. Sunday Bassey. That fateful Sunday, she reportedly got a […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter-in-law, Zahra B. Buhari, has graduated with a first class in Architectural Science from a university in United Kingdom. Zahra, daughter of Nasiru Ado Bayero, Emir of Bichi, is is the wife of Buhari’s only son. Yusuf and Zahra got married on August 20, 2021 in Kano State. Celebrating her daughter-in-law, the […]

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, stated this in Abuja on Monday while addressing members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) at a public presentation of a publication titled, “Contemporary History of Working Class Struggles.” Ngige stated that the increment in the minimum wage was necessary due to the current global inflation that […]

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have busted a cocaine warehouse in Lagos State, seizing N193 billion worth of crack.  NDLEA’s spokesman Femi Babafemi described the development as one of “the biggest singular cocaine seizures” in the agency’s history. He said the officials busted the “warehouse in a secluded estate in Ikorodu […]

Group of lecturers under the aegis of Congress of University Academics, CONUA has called for the immediate reopening of universities for the resumption of academic activities. Recall that CONUA has applied to the Minister of Labour and Employmenr to be registered as one of the academic unions in the universities. The group has been in […]

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has arrived in London ahead of the state funeral for the late Queen Elizabeth ll of the United Kingdom. Professor Osinbajo who departed Abuja on Saturday would be representing Nigeria at a number of events while in the UK, including the funeral service. Upon his arrival in London on […]

The campaign councils of three leading presidential candidates in the 2023 general election have dismissed a recent opinion poll that put the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, ahead of them. In the result of the poll conducted and released by ANAP Foundation, on Thursday, Mr Obi, was ranked first, beating Bola Tinubu of the […]

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has advised Nigerians to vote for credible leaders who have the country at heart and would see Nigeria as their project. He gave the advice during an interview with newsmen in Minna, Niger State on Thursday after a visit to the former Head of State, General Abduisalam Abubakar, who recently […]

The Federal Government, on Wednesday, said that the protesting members of the National Association of Nigerian students, NANS, that blocked a traffic-laden section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway are “violating” the country’s law. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, stated this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal […]

A 24-year-old Nigerian identified as Annastasia Micheal has declared her intention to give one of her kidneys to Ekweremadu’s daughter. On Monday, Ekweremadu’s daughter had publicly appealed for kidney donation to save her life. Annastasia made a public post on Facebook when she said she had made up her mind to assist Sonia in a […]

The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Basic Education and Services on Tuesday warned governors in the country to prioritize basic education or be ready to face the consequences. The chairman of the committee, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, said this in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, at the end of a two-day oversight visit to inspect completed […]