The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) President, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie said last night that talks between ASUU and the Federal Government will continue this morning “to iron out a few outstanding issues” He stated this at the end of yesterday’s (Monday) meeting which lasted for about four hours. “We have had deliberations, you know [...]
Having identified several lapses in the Nigerian security system which has given the Islamic sect, Boko Haram unhindered bombings and killings in the northern part of the country, the United States of America (USA) on Tuesday gave its commitment to the development of operational capabilities in the nation’s security services. Boko Haram in the past [...]
Gunmen in the restive southern Philippines opened fire on three boats and killed 15 fishermen in what officials said Tuesday was likely an attack by a rival group protecting its lucrative fishing grounds, reports The Associated Press. The fishermen were aboard three small, wooden-hulled vessels off Sibago Island in Basilan province when attackers in speedboats [...]
Cross River State Governor, Mr. Liyel Imoke, Monday recorded a resounding victory in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election, which took place in Calabar, the state capital as he defeated his opponent, Chief Soni Abang, by 737 votes to three. Prior to his victory, about 747 delegates were accredited with seven of the [...]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited 38 oil marketers who allegedly benefited from the controversial N1.3trillion subsidy incurred last year by the Federal Government. The interrogation of the marketers will begin today in Abuja in batches. The invitation of the marketers has caused anxiety among some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chiefs who [...]
Nigerian police said on Monday they shot dead four members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram in the northeast city of Maiduguri and recovered explosive materials stored in a car, two days after the sect carried out its most deadly attacks in the country. Bomb attacks and fierce gun battles between the sect and police [...]
Nigerian police found eight bomb-laden cars in the northern city of Kano on Monday as clerics said peace prayers after attacks that left over 160 people dead and stoked fresh fears of civil unrest. President Goodluck Jonathan, facing his worst crisis of his nine-month tenure as he grapples with a surge in attacks by the [...]
Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178 people, a hospital doctor said on Sunday, underscoring the challenge President Goodluck Jonathan faces to prevent his country sliding further into chaos. A coordinated series of bomb blasts and shooting sprees mostly targeting police stations [...]
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For the three weeks the Chief Coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi and his assistant, Daniel Amokachi, will be with SuperSport as analysts in the Africa Cup of Nations, they will lose their pay. Justifying the action of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, to cut the coaches’ salaries, the federation’s acting Secretary General, Musa Amadu, [...]
As it emerged this week the singer is expecting his sixth child from his African Queen Pero Adeniyi. According to sources Idibia’s long-time girlfriend and mother of his children is heavily pregnant and due in March 2012. Pero who was once married to Tunde Borokini already has two children, Rose and Justin, where as 2Face [...]
THE seven week old strike embarked upon by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), will be over next week, Education Minister, Prof. Ruqqayatu Rufai, has assured. Ruqqayatu told newsmen yesterday in Abuja, at the meeting with vice-chancellors of federal universities that a meeting to bring the strike to an end had been brokered on Monday, [...]
Members of the Police Force in Lagos yesterday fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters marching against the authorities’ security crackdown in the aftermath of a week-long strike over fuel prices. About 200 protestors defied police warnings and marched towards a park in the Lagos state that had become the epicentre of mass mobilisation against [...]
Following a court order issued on Wednesday by Justice Gladys Olotu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has restored the name of the candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the governorship election of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson as the candidate. Kayode Idowu, Chief [...]
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Nigeria dropped two steps in the FIFA world rankings released yesterday. Despite pulling a draw and a win against Botswana and Zambia respectively in the last quarter of 2011, the Eagles moved from the the 43rd position down to the 45th place, a position shared with Armenia. With coach Stephen Keshi working hard to return [...]
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A bill which seeks to increase the retirement age of professors in Nigerian universities to 70 years scaled third reading in the Senate on Wednesday. The Senate also upped the pensionable age of other academic staff and non-academic staff of universities to 65 years. Universities lecturers and non-academic staff in the universities have been on [...]
AS anger mounts in Aso Rock over the and avoidable escape, Tuesday, of Alhaji Kabir Sokoto, the suspected bomber of the St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, on Christmas day, the Inspector General of Police, Mr Hafiz Ringim has been queried over the incident and faces sack if he is found guilty of complicity. This came [...]
This ceremony was dedicated to the recognition and celebration of some of the best of Nigeria’s youth. President Goodluck, who was present at the ceremony spoke at length on the negative effect of politicians on the youth, the president said, “NYSC uniform now attract evil men, before once you wear NYSC uniform, people can give [...]
The leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), in Akwa Ibom State has said workers in the state would continue to stay at home even as the national strike declared by the national body of the union over the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry has been suspended. Comrade Unyime Usoro, the state [...]
Following a directive by the Federal Government for the immediate review and investigation into all payments made in respect of subsidies on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and kerosene, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, swooped on the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency, PPPRA. PPPRA is the agency saddled with the [...]
A Magistrates’ Court in Enugu, yesterday, granted bail to the Enugu Labour leader, Mr Ozoeze Festus who was arrested and detained last week for allegedly attempting to breach peace. Uzoeze was arraigned before the court on a two-count charge bordering on misdemeanor and breach of peace. He was charged alongside two others now at large. [...]
The Bauchi State Police command has arrested a 56 year old carpenter Mr. Uzoh Moses for allegedly defiling five year old girl. The State Police commissioner Mr. Ikechukwu Ayo Aduba stated this at the ceremony marking the renunciation of 152 members of the “Sara Suka” group. He said: “A 56 year-old carpenter, Moses Uzoh of [...]
