BREAKING: ASUU declares Pantami’s professorship illegal
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared the promotion of Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, to a professorship position as “illegal”. Pantami’s professorship was declared illegal by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, at a press conference he addressed in Lagos on Monday. “You cannot be a minister and a lecturer in a...
ASUU declares nationwide strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday, declared a four-week “comprehensive and total” strike. The nationwide strike was declared by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, at a press conference he addressed in Lagos on Monday. Osodeke stated that the strike will take effect from Monday, February 14, 2022. The latest development is coming after members of the union’s...
Kaduna State health agency to enrol 16,000 pensioners into scheme
The Kaduna State Contributory Health Management Authority says it will enroll 16,000 pensioners in the state into its health insurance scheme. The Director-General of the authority, Abubakar Hassan, said this during an engagement meeting with the state chapter of the Union of Pensioners on Monday in Kaduna. Hassan said the pensioners would be captured into the scheme as soon as the...
2023 zoning and aspirants’ pairing permutations (2)
By EHICHIOYA EZOMON As noted in part one of this article on Monday, February 7, 2022, the politicians that welcomed the new civilian administration in 1999 agreed to a gentleman's arrangement to rotate the presidency between the North and South of Nigeria. But for the distortion of the principle in 2011 by President Goodluck Jonathan, a Southerner, the mechanism would've run smoothly,...
A nation of adulterated fuel and adulterated stories
By DAKUKU PETERSIDE For decades, Nigerians have been living in denial about the state of our country's petroleum refining and distribution system. Even non- specialists without any training in elementary petroleum economics know there is something wrong with our petroleum products refining, importation, and distribution regime and regulatory systems. Unfortunately, even with enacting the protracted Petroleum Industry Act, Nigerian leaders...
How teenagers attempted to kill sex worker in Ekiti
Two teenagers have been arraigned before an Ekiti State Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ado Ekiti for allegedly attempting to kill a 23-year-old lady in the state. The teenagers, Oluwatimilehin Afolabi (19) and Kehinde Mustapha (19), who were arraigned on one count of attempted murder, allegedly attempted to kill a commercial sex worker in Ikere Ekiti on February 2, 2022. The...
Obaship: Ifa rejects MC Oluomo (1)
By TUNDE ODESOLA They wear the nation’s green-white-green flag as uniform. They have their own army, arms and ammunition. Their constitution is superior to the laws of the land. They’re state-backed bandits. They’re a clan of killers. They’re the National Union of Road Transport Workers. Though Lagos is the centripetal force in this discourse, it’s no breaking news that killings and...
ASUU mulls one-month warning strike
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has resolved to embark on one-month warning strike to press home its demands from the Federal Government. This is coming after a marathon meeting by members of the union’s National Executive Council which began on Saturday and ended in the early hours of Monday. A source at the meeting...
Atiku eulogises Murtala Mohammed 46 years after death
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has eulogised the ex-Head of State, Murtala Mohammed, forty-six years after his death. The former Head of State ruled over Nigeria from July 30, 1975, until his assassination on February 13, 1976. Murtala Mohammed, who was assassinated at the of 38, was a Nigerian general who led the Northern counter-coup forces in overthrowing the...
Lagos collapsed building: Body of IT student recovered as death toll hits 5
The body of a student on industrial training was, on Sunday evening, recovered from the collapsed three-storey building at Yaba area of Lagos State as the death toll hit five. The Zonal Coordinator, South-West of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the development to newsmen in Lagos. According to NAN, the relatives of the IT student, simply identified...
