The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) has directed its members across the country to remain calm and resolute over the judgment delivered on Wednesday by the Industrial Court ordering its members to call off the strike and return to work. The university lecturers, who have been on strike for up to seven months Read More…
UK expresses worry, says threat should be taken seriously If threats by Russian President, Vladimir Putin are to be taken seriously, then the world is in for a night of long knives. On Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War II and backed a plan to annex swathes of Ukraine, warning Read More…
The industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) is officially over. The National Industrial Court has ordered members of the union to return to work. The Federal Government in a suit prayed for the order for ASUU to call off its seven months strike. The Minister of Labour and Read More…
Dr. Maymunah Kadiri, a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Medical Director, Pinnacle Medical Services, has advised Nigerians to form the habit of going for quarterly mental health check-ups to ensure their mental wellbeing. She bemoaned what she described as the unfortunate reluctance of a majority of Nigerians who feel that only the mentally challenged should go for Read More…
Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, a former presidential aspirant of the African Democratic Congress, (ADC), has applauded the Federal Government for the condition given to a foreign firm, Elon Musk’s Tesla, before issuing him a licence to mine lithium in Nigeria. Moghalu, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in a statement on Tuesday Read More…
Veronica Vincent, a daycare owner who was accused of sexually assaulting a year-old baby girl in her care, was on Tuesday, discharged and acquitted by an Ikeja Special Offences Court. Veronica was charged with a two-count charge of defilement and sexual assault by penetration. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo said that as there had been no blood Read More…
Uchenna Izuka has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday for defiling a 12-year-old girl. Izuka was charged with defilement. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, in her judgment, said that the prosecution has succeeded in proving the charge against the convict. “The survivor testified that the defendant defiled her sometimes in Read More…
A REUTERS REPORT Hauwa Shakir puts the finishing touches to an elegant lilac and grey dress, grabs her handbag and steps into a grey Toyota Corolla in front of her home in the outskirts of central Abuja. Shakir, 31, is among thousands of Nigerians hailing rides using mobile apps, but her car has something unusual: Read More…
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said on Tuesday that crude oil theft in Nigeria, which is blamed for throttling output and exports, is tantamount to treason that should be punished by the stiffest possible penalty. Oil production fell below 1 million barrels per day in August, figures from NNPC show. Gbajabiamila said Read More…
Nigeria’s total public debt stock rose to ₦42.84 trillion ($103.31 billion) by June from ₦41.60 trillion ($100.07 billion) in March, according to the Debt Management Office (DMO) In a statement issued by DMO on Tuesday, the total debt represents the domestic and external debt stocks of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), the 36 State Read More…
