After a lull in the wave of incessant strikes in the Nigerian public university system, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday declared a two-week warning strike, alleging federal government’s reluctance to meet their demands, despite efforts Read more…
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), the elite professional body of Managing Directors, Directors of News and Editors of print, broadcast and corporate online organisations, will hold its 2025 All Nigeria Editors Conference (ANEC) from November 3-6 at the Federal Capital Read more…
The Benue State House of Assembly has once again modified the legislation guiding the name of the state-owned university in Makurdi, settling on a more concise title. Under the fresh amendment, the institution will now be officially called Father Adasu Read more…
The recent killing of over 10 indigenes of Ebonyi State at Ogboji, in Orumba South Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State, is barbaric and condemnable. The victims were killed by some assailants during a community meeting. Many others were injured. Read more…
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has charged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to undertake an independent audit of its examination infrastructure. Kalu, who gave the charge at a press briefing in Abuja, yesterday, said the Read more…
Twenty years ago on April 8, 2005, Karol Wojtyła, Pope St. John Paul II, passed away on the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday. On the eve of the same Sunday, thousands bid a final farewell to Jorge Mario Bergoglio two Read more…
His laurels were astounding, almost superhuman: Nigeria’s first academic Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), honoured alongside such titans as Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Remi Fani-Kayode and Mr Kehinde Sofola; constitutional authority frequently cited around the world and in Nigeria’s courts, Read more…
The new governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Michael Cardoso, and the four CBN deputy governors nominated by President Bola Tinubu assumed office last week. The deputy governors are Emem Usoro, Muhammad Abdullahi-Dattijo, Philip Ikeazor and Bala Read more…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has called on governments across the country to show compassion while demolishing properties they consider to be illegal. Obi made the appeal in a tweet on Tuesday in response to the Read more…
Presidential elections in any nook and cranny of the world always generate special interests because of the need to know the likely attitudinal disposition of a potential or a would-be new president. Put differently, will the new president be policy Read more…
In taking impunity to the highest level, some students of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State recently lynched one of their colleagues, Deborah Samuel, and burnt her remains in broad daylight. They did not stop at that; Read more…
