The Academic Staff Union of Universities is set to embark on a one-day nationwide protest rally over the implementation by the Federal Government of a “no-work, no-pay” policy for lecturers in the country. The protest will be organised at the ...
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Admission Scandal: How Govs, Senators Scheme Out Candidates In Police Academy Test
Revelations have emerged as to how candidates from the South South and South East geopolitical zones of the country who sat for the computer-based test for the 9th regular course of the Nigeria Police Academy in Wudil local government area ...
Read More »ICPC Freezes 1,233 Bank Accounts, Ex-Gov May Lose 29 Duplexes
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has seized no fewer than 97 property from different individuals in the past four years. The list of seized assets include 33 buildings, plots of land and a factory forfeited to the ...
Read More »NAPTAN Backs ASUU, Warns FG
The National President of the Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria, Haruna Danjuma, has condemned the payment of half salaries for October 22 to lecturers in public universities by the Federal Government, describing it as tantamount to “pushing them to the wall.” ...
Read More »Domesticate VAPP Act, Group Urges Governors
An international civil society organisation, International Human Rights Observatory Africa, has expressed concern over the delay by some state governments to domesticate the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Saturday, the patron of the group in ...
Read More »Ex-Agitators To Get Federal Govt Jobs – HoSF
As part of measures by the federal government to reintegrate ex-agitators into the society, the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HoSF), Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, has hinted on plans to absorb a sizeable number of qualified graduates of the ...
Read More »Rise In Suicide Cases At Lagos Lagoon Worries Psychiatrists
There is growing concern among stakeholders and officials about paranoid ideation and the urge to commit suicide which are becoming common in Nigeria and are currently manifesting in the increase in the number of people plunging into the Lagos Lagoon. ...
Read More »NIPSS Visit: Ingenuity, Strategic Continuity Secret Of Emmanuel’s Success – Info Comm
By Lawrence Ekong The Akwa Ibom State Government has advanced inventiveness, statesmanship and strategic execution of public projects as some of the reasons responsible for the success so far recorded by the administration of Governor Udom Emmanuel. The Commissioner for ...
Read More »UNILAG Auto Assembly Plant Excites FG
Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, has expressed excitement over the establishment of an auto assembly plant in the University of Lagos by Nord Automobile Limited. He commended the partnership between the University and Nord during the ...
Read More »Court Disqualifies 16 Rivers APC Assembly Candidates
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has disqualified 16 House of Assembly candidates of the All Progressives Congress from contesting the 2023 elections for non-compliance with the new Electoral Act. The trial judge, Justice Mohammed Adamu, ...
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