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  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has embarked on a two- week warning strike with effect from Monday. Its Natoonal President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, announced this at end of the National Executive Council meeting(NEC) held at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT). Ogunyemi said the strike action was to compel federal government to implement the ... Read More »

The Emir of Kano, Emir Sanusi ll is again embroiled in another fresh trouble, as The Kano State House of Assembly has set up an eight-man committee to investigate alleged violations of culture and traditions as well as religious norms of Kano against Emir Muhammad Sanusi II. The committee on public petition was mandated to investigate a petition submitted before ... Read More »

Femi Gbajabiamila, the speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, has reportedly prepared air tickets for 300 guests to grace the birthday party of his mother, Alhaja Lateefat Olufunke Gbajabiamila, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates . SaharaReporters said Gbajabiamila is already warming up to stage an elaborate party for his mother’s 90th birthday starting from today, March 2.. The report added ... Read More »

Popular Nigerian prophet, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, has announced that the days of Abubakar Shekau, leader of the dreaded Islamist group, Boko Haram, are numbered. Ayodele, in a release on Friday, 21st of February, 2020, said Shekau would be arrested ‘soon’ by the Nigerian soldiers, and paraded. The cleric, who is famous and respected for prophesying accurately on national and ... Read More »

The coronavirus epidemic in Iran has cost 26 lives, the health ministry announced Thursday, with a vice president becoming the latest top official to be infected as the spread appeared to accelerate. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a news conference that the tally of infections had risen to 245 with 106 more cases confirmed, the highest number for a ... Read More »

Justice Yetunde Adesanya of an Ikeja High Court, on Thursday, struck out a suit filed by former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos, seeking to stop his probe by the state Assembly over the purchase of 820 buses for Bus Reform Project. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Adesanya ruled that the ad-hoc committee set up to investigate Ambode was ... Read More »

The Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja, on Thursday, ruled that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had no candidate in the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the state. Justice John Olorunfemi of the High Court 4, in a ruling declared that the party primary conducted on the 3rd September 2019, which produced Engr. Musa Wada as the PDP ... Read More »

The residence of Bayelsa State are anxiously waiting for the outcome of the review of the Supreme Court’s judgement that sacked Chief David Lyon and Senator Degi Erimienyo as Governor-Elect and Deputy Governor-Elect, investigations have revealed. The review, which is scheduled to begin on Wednesday at the apex court, was the single most important discussion among residents including non-politicians such ... Read More »

The federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, convicted a former National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olisah Metuh of count one among seven others instituted against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Also convicted alongside Metuh is his firm, Destra Investments Limited. Justice Okon Abang in his judgment ruled that a former ... Read More »

The Kano Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday, quizzed the current Minority Leader and former speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Isiyaku Ali Danja for alleged abuse of office and misappropriation of funds meant for constituency projects.   The  Lawmaker’s ordeal started after the Commission received a petition that monies meant for payment of ... Read More »