Some students of Nigerian public universities have expressed frustration over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Some of the students in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday appealed to Federal Government to meet at least 50 per cent of ASUU demands to end the strike. Greatness Nnamdi-Ikpo, a third year student of the University of Port Harcourt, who is studying gas engineering, said that the ongoing strike was impacting negatively on the future plans of Nigerian students. He said although he enrolled for a five-year programme in 2017, he was still in…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed the personal torture he suffers on account of the security challenge in the country. Buhari, in a national broadcast this morning to mark Democracy Day, says he lives “daily with grief and agony for victims and prisoners of terrorism.” The day is in commemoration of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by the late Chief Moshood Abiola but which was annulled by the Babangida military regime. Buhari, who describes this year’s Democracy Day, as his last as president, is optimistic that signals ahead of next year’s election look positive on the strength of…
Eleven more of the train passengers abducted by terrorists in Kaduna State on March 28 breathed the air of freedom yesterday after 75 days in captivity. Their release followed a deal brokered by federal government’s negotiators. There are now 51 yet to regain their freedom. News of the latest release was broken yesterday by Malam Tukur Mamu, Media Consultant to popular Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmed Gumi. It came on a day Nigeria’s Ambassador to Benin Republic and former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai (rtd), described dialogue with armed groups as key to ending the current security…
ABUJA–THE leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,has rejected a crowdfunding platform initiated to end the ongoing strike by lecturers of public universities in the country. The crowdfunding platform initiated by acclaimed philanthropist and owner of Human Rights Radio,Ahmed Isah,was aimed at raising money for the lecturers’ union with a view to ending the strike that has grounded academic activities in the nation’s public varsities. Isah had invited the leadership of ASUU,led by its president,Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, to his station to intimate them of his efforts aimed at resolving the age-long crisis between ASUU and the federal government…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has assured Nigerians that they would get feedback concerning the calls for the extension of the Continuous Voters’ Registration. The INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, made this known during his speech at a political concert in Lagos. Sharing a picture of Yakubu at the concert, a tweet from INEC on Saturday read, “We have heard your requests loud and clear. You will soon hear from us on the extension of CVR registration. “Please assure me that you will register, pick your PVCs and Vote. I also assure you that your vote will count.” The exercise…
Peter Obi has received a certificate of return as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for next year’s general elections. The former governor Anambra State governor received the certificate of return from the party on Friday. “Mr. Peter Obi Receives Labour Party Certificate of Returns as its Presidential Candidate for 2023 presidential elections,” the Labour Party tweeted on its official handle alongside a photo of Obi holding the certificate of return. “Congratulations!! Before now, a faction of the party had elected a presidential candidate for the elections next year. But the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)…
Available reports say some members of the terror group that attacked and killed worshippers at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church Owo, Ondo State, on Sunday have been captured by security forces. The protesters, mainly youths, are trying to resist the planned movement of the suspects to Akure. Security forces are now on ground to prevent the breakdown of law and order in Owo and in the palace. Earlier, the Olowo of Owo, Oba Ajibade Ogunoye, confirmed that the suspects have been nabbed. On Wednesday, the Ondo State Government gave a new casualty figure from the terrorist attack. …
Super Eagles defeated Leone Stars of Sierra Leone 2-1 at the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja without fans in the stands on Thursday in their 2023 Africa Cup of Nations encounter. The fans were absent as a result of the one-match ban placed on the country by the world football–governing body, FIFA, over the fracas that followed the end of the 2022 FIFA World Cup playoff round against the Black Stars of Ghana in March. In the Day 1 game of the 2023 AFCON, Alex Iwobi and Victor Osimhen scored for Nigeria while J. Morsay scored for the…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday pledged its support to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Led by the APC National Chairman, Senator Adamu Abdullahi, the committee visited Tinubu to congratulate him and give assurance that the party’s leadership would work assiduously to deliver him as president. “We are here visiting you to join you in thanking God for giving you to us and to all Nigerians, by making you the presidential flagbearer of our party for the 2023 election,” Senator Abdullahi was quoted as saying in a statement by Tinubu’s media…
President Muhamadu Buhari has commenced a closed-door session with security chiefs at the presidential villa, where he is reportedly billed to receive briefs from all the heads of security agencies in the country. The briefing, which is coming under the auspices of the National Security Council Meeting, is holding at the State House, Abuja, with Buhari presiding. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari; and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (retd); are among the high profile government functionaries attending…