A senior human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will soon call off its nearly eight-month strike. Falana, who is the ASUU’s counsel revealed this at a book launch ‘Breaking Coconut With Your Head’ by Lanre Arogundade on Monday in Lagos. He hinted that the industrial action will be concluded outside the courtroom in his reaction to the appellate court’s order that the public universities’ lecturers should return to classrooms. The federal government and ASUU since February 14 have been at loggerheads over demands of proper funding of the university…
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Adeyemi Alabi, the commander of the Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps (NAOC), Lagos, has charged the youth to channel their energy toward positive development for a peaceful and greater Nigeria. Mr Alabi gave the charge in Lagos during the pulling-out parade for retired NAOC senior officers and sanitation exercise within Ojuelegba and its environs. He stressed that the exercise, a collective one, aimed to be the army’s way of supporting their host community to make Nigeria better. “The exercise further buttresses the fact that collectively, we can make our nation better and assist our quota to support the federal…
Commander of the Ondo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye has given a clear warning to people of the Sunshine state to be careful while boarding commercial motorcycle popularly known as Okada, as majority of them are constituting serious nuisance in the state. This is coming after men of the crime buster Corps arrested 80 motorcycle operators for flouting the restriction order banning late operation of motorcyclists and night clubbing in the state. The Corps Commander explained further, that, the Ondo state Government did not ban Okada operations during day time, but restricted its from…
The Independent National Electoral Commission is facing challenges in managing the implementation of the new Electoral Act 2022, the Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, Yabagi Sani, has said. Sani also demanded a situation whereby the democratic process would be open for all to participate in. The IPAC Chairman, who is also the current National Chairman of the Action Democratic Party, questioned the way the commission is managing the implementation of the new electoral law. In a telephone interview with our correspondent on Sunday, he explained that any law that tends to disenfranchise the populace should be…
Nigeria’s first lady Aisha Buhari has urged the All Progressives Congress(APC) Women and Youths Presidential Campaign Team to rally behind the party’s presidential standard-bearer, Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima. She said APC could not afford to lose the 2023 presidential election. Mrs Buhari, the leader of the APC women’s campaign team, made the call on Sunday during a strategic meeting with the wife of APC presidential candidate Remi Tinubu and the wives of APC governors. The meeting, held at the State House in Abuja, also had in attendance the wife of the vice-presidential candidate, Nana Shetima. “APC…
The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, said yesterday that he has no plans to appeal the judgment delivered by the Federal High Court, Damaturu, in Yobe State with regard to next year’s Yobe North Senatorial district election. In a statement yesterday by his Special Adviser, Media, Ola Awoniyi, the President of the Senate said that he earlier written immediately after the ruling that he had accepted the judgment of the court which disqualified his candidature and participation in the election. Justice Fadima Aminu at a Damaturu Federal High Court had sacked the President of the Senate,…
The Chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages Management Committee, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo, Sunday led a massive rally in support of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The rally, tagged: “Five-Million-Man Walk”, saw APC supporters, including musicians and artistes, defying an early morning downpour to rally support for Tinubu and the re-election of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The APC supporters converged on the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, as early as 7am, walking from there through Ikorodu Road and Gbagada-Oshodi Expressway to Bolade, Oshodi. Security operatives were on…
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu; his Cross River State counterpart, Ben Ayade; and the Peoples Democratic Party have called on Nigerian Muslims to embrace peace. They made the call in their separate statements issued on Sunday to celebrate the 2022 Eid-el-Maulud which marks the birth of Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Unto Him). Sanwo-Olu, in a message by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile, said, “Today, I join millions of people around the world to wish our Muslim brothers and sisters in Lagos State and in Nigeria Happy Maolud Nabiy, which marks the birth of Prophet…
Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has assured Nigerians that the insecurity bedeviling the country would be over by December. Aregbesola gave the assurance when he featured on the NAN Forum in Abuja. The minster said that President Muhammadu Buhari had given December deadline for the security forces to restore order and stability in all parts of the country. Aregbesola quoted Buhari as saying that he would not leave the country without curtailing and effectively addressing the security challenges. “He gave the deadline of total elimination of such threat to the security of lives and property by…
The Federal Government has threatened to sue the striking lecturers, who are members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities if they fail to resume as ruled by the National Industrial Court. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, who issued this threat on Friday during an interview monitored on Channel TV, disclosed that he had directed labour controllers to monitor compliance at all tertiary institutions across the states. He said, “The court says ASUU must obey today (Friday). I have asked labour controllers in the 36 states and the zones to reach out to the…