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The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions (NASU) have declared a two-week warning strike, beginning from Monday. The development may compound the crisis at the Nigerian universities following the ongoing strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). […]

The Federal Government has disclosed that the Second Niger Bridge linking Anambra and Delta states, scheduled for completion in February 2022, is now 91 per cent completed. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, made this announcement on Thursday during the Special Weekly ministerial briefing at the State House in Abuja. According to him, the […]

US President Joe Biden said Thursday that NATO would “respond” if Russian President Vladimir Putin used a chemical weapon in his war on Ukraine. “We will respond if he uses it. The nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use,” Biden said after a NATO summit in Brussels. Kicking off a […]

Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi on Thursday declared his intention to run for President in 2023. He made the declaration in Awka at a gathering of traditional rulers in Anambra State. He also made this known via his verified Twitter account last night “Dear Nigerians. I am here to inform you all that I […]

Former porn star Stormy Daniels was ordered by a federal court to pay Donald Trump $300,000 in attorney fees after it rejected her appeal to another’s court ruling in her defamation case against the former president. In a statement issued on Monday, Trump celebrated the news and said that ‘all I have to do is […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that Nigeria’s dependence on imported products in the agriculture sector will soon be a thing of the past with the inauguration of Dangote Fertilizer Plant, which has an installed capacity of 3.0 million metric tonnes of Urea per annum. Speaking at the commissioning of the plant in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos […]

The lingering foreign exchange scarcity in the country has continued to worsen even as the exchange rate on the parallel market is inching towards N590/$1.  Checks by Punch on Tuesday showed that the exchange rate stood at N585/$1 and N785/£1 on the black market as against the N582/$1 last Friday. Insiders told Punch that things […]

United States President Joe Biden said Monday that it’s “clear” Russia is considering the use of chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine and warned of a “severe” Western response if it chose to do so. “His back is against the wall,” said Biden of Russian President Vladimir Putin, noting that Russia has recently accused the […]

The Lagos State Government has listed alternatives routes ahead of the commissioning of the International Terminal of the Muritala Mohammed International Airport by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari is expected to arrive in the city in the early hours of Tuesday for the event. In a statement, the Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, […]

The management of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company has thanked Charles Soludo, governor of Anambra state, for keeping his promise to use its vehicle as official car. Before his inauguration, Soludo had pledged to prioritise local brands, saying he would only use Innoson vehicles manufactured in Nnewi, Anambra, as his administration’s official vehicle.  Soludo took the oath of […]

Nigerians are to report police personnel who demand permits for tinted glasses at checkpoints in any part of the country, the Force Headquarters has said. The acting Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, confirmed this in a series of tweets on Sunday. He was informing the public on the documents to be presented when demanded […]

The Federal Government on Saturday said it has taken several steps “towards the restoration of normal supply of electricity nationwide.” The national grid suffered shutdowns at least twice in the past week leading to blackouts across the country amid rising prices of fuel products. In a statement signed by Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, the […]

The Russian Federation says it’s Ministry of Education is willing to offer admissions to Nigerians who want to continue their education in Russia. The Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and African Countries and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mikhail L. Bogdanov, said this […]

Detained for more than a month in Russia, US basketball star Brittney Griner has become an unlikely victim of the war in Ukraine — and the best way to free her remains a crucial question. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA champion, was detained in Moscow airport on February 17 on charges of […]

Russia on Thursday warned the U.S. that Moscow had the might to put the United States in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart. Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and now deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, said the United States […]