The Academic Staff Union of Universities has told Nigerians to blame President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime if the union decides to resume its suspended strike. In a statement, The Chairman of the University of Ibadan branch, Ayo Akinwole revealed that many lecturers were still being owed salaries ranging from two...
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Ex-militant leader, Asari Dokubo, declared himself the leader of the new Biafra defacto Customary Government (BCG) The Head of Information and Communication of the customary government, Uche Mefor announced this in a statement on Sunday According to the statement, George Onyibe will be the Secretary, while Emeka Esiri will...
The National Youth Council of Nigeria, (NYCN) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately declare the invading bandits across the nation as terrorists. It said doing so would be a major move towards curbing insecurity currently ravaging the entire nation. This was contained in a statement issued on Sunday...
A and T global services limited and Kaita integrated services limited in conjunction with National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have called on youths in Imo North senatorial district to shun drug abuse. The group made this call on Thursday during a sensitization And awareness campaign organised by the group...
The West African country of Burkina Faso is to get a new large-scale renewable energy plant, it was announced today, 15th March. Located some 250km south east of the nation’s capital city of Ouagadougou, near the town of Pâ, the new solar energy plant will supply all the electricity it...
A 46-year-old man was killed by an elephant in northern Namibia, police confirmed Monday. According to Omusati regional commander, commissioner Titus Shikongo, the deceased, Abner Petrus died after he was trampled by an elephant at the Okatha- Kiikombo Village in the Okatseidhi area on Sunday. He said the deceased,...
Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Muhammad Nami, has lauded Nigerian mothers and their counterparts globally for their untiring contributions to family stability and national development. Mr. Nami gave the commendation on the occasion of this year’s International Mother’s Day in a statement issued at the weekend in Abuja....
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said that nine African countries have reported more than 100,000 confirmed Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. The Africa CDC, the specialised healthcare agency of the African Union (AU) Commission, said that South Africa was the only African country that had...
Italian government on Monday effected a new phase of lockdown for more than 40 million people due to rise in Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. Apart for Sardinia, where hardly any restrictions applied, all Italian regions are subject to the medium-strict rules of an orange zone under Italy’s colour-coded...
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno, a retired Major General, has been a subject of deprecation by a few Nigerians. But to many others, the urbane NSA is the archetypal conscience of the nation, the voice of the people and a patriotic public servant who chose to act...
Security forces in Myanmar have fired on pro-democracy protesters, killing five people, media reports say. Monday’s killings came a day after dozens of demonstrators were shot dead and attackers burned several Chinese-owned factories in the city of Yangon. Supporters of detained national leader Aung San Suu Kyi marched again...
A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Monday dissolved a four-year-old marriage between a teacher, Taiwo Akinsola and her husband, Owolabi, on grounds of degrading treatment. Akinsola, in her petition alleged that Owolabi often strips her naked whenever they had a misunderstanding. Delivering judgment, Ademola Odunade, the president of...
Heavily armed gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked another school in the Rema area of Kaduna State, North-West Nigeria. During the attack, an unconfirmed number of pupils and teachers are feared to have been abducted. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in the state, Samuel Aruwan,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- The out going General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division, Nigerian Army Headquarters Maimalari Cantonment Maiduguri, Major General Abdul Khalifa Ibrahim, on Monday handed over the leadership of the command to the new Acting GOC, Brigadier General Abdulwahab Adelakun Eyitayo. The handing over ceremony which took...
A 60-year old Danish woman who died of a blood clot after receiving AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine had “highly unusual” symptoms, the Danish Medicines Agency said late on Sunday. It said the woman had a low number of blood platelets and clots in small and large vessels, as well as...
At least 15 civilians were massacred overnight in Eastern DR Congo, a monitoring group in the region said Monday, saying the notorious ADF militia was suspected. “At least 15 civilians were killed last night in Bulongo (Beni territory, North Kivu). The ADF are suspects,” the Kivu Security Tracker (KST)...
Ugandan politician and former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has been arrested in the capital, Kampala. He was leading a team of MPs from his party, the National Unity Platform, in a protest against arrests and disappearances of supporters in the period leading up to,...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it is deploying all its operational energies in enforcing the use of helmets by motorcyclists across the country. The Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO) of the FRSC, Mr Bisi Kazeem who disclosed this on Monday in Abuja in an interview with newsmen,...
Chinese Police has nabbed more than 34,000 suspects while handling 19,000 food-related criminal cases in 2020 in a crackdown that started in May, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said on Monday. The monetary value involved in the cases amounted to 2.51 billion dollars, the ministry said, adding that...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- Several houses, buildings as well as facilities have been completely razed down following a mysterious fire outbreak in the most populated Town of Gajiganna in Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State. It was learnt that the fire disaster which started at about 2 PM,...