ASUU Writes UNIJOS To Withdraw Minister’s Certificate As Edo Students Stage Protest

The striking Academic Staff Union of Universities has written to the University of Jos (UNIJOS), demanding the probe and the recall of the doctorate degree of the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba. This came as students of different tertiary institutions in Edo State protested in Benin, the state capital over the lingering strike of ASUU. ASUU commenced a warning strike on February 14, 2022, and has yet to call off the industrial action....

2023 Presidency: Igbo Elders To Meet Today, Thursday, For United Front

Report has emerged that Imeobi Ohanaeze Ndigbo, an Igbo socio-cultural group, will be meeting today, Thursday, to review and take a final position on the 2023 presidency as it concerns Ndigbo. The meeting which will hold at Ohanaeze Ndigbo National Secretariat, 7 Park Avenue, GRA, Enugu from 12pm will also discuss how to field a single aspirant for the presidential primaries of the two major political parties – the ruling All Progressives Congress and the...

Southwest APC Leaders Set To Present A United Front Ahead of Primary

Ahead of the primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the former governors of Ogun and Osun States, Chief Olusegun Osoba and Bisi Akande, have convened meetings for presidential aspirants from the South-West. The report has it that the meeting was called for the region to present a united front going into the Presidential primary as there are now many aspirants from the region. The meeting which was scheduled for Friday, May 6, is coming...

Wike Expresses Bitterness Over the Attitude of Northern Presidential Aspirants Toward Zoning

LAGOS — The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has complained about the former Senate President Bukola Saraki, and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, over their attitudes toward zoning of the presidency in the Southern part of Nigeria ahead of the 2023 general elections. The Governor maintained that he had always supported presidential aspirants from the North, and wondered why those he supported in the 2019 elections are now aspiring to be president in 2023....

Passengers Rescue As Fire Guts Plane In Port Harcourt

PORT HARCOURT — No less than 50 passengers were rescued as fire gutted the tyres of a Dana Aircraft in Port Harcourt Airport. The incident which was confirmed by the spokesperson of Dana Airlines Limited, Kingsley Ezenwa, recorded no death or injuries. Titled ‘Press statement on Port Harcourt incident of 2/5/22’, the statement explained the aircraft had been grounded pending the conclusion of their investigations. It partly reads: “Our aircraft with registration number 5N JOY...

Attempt To Scuttle Zoning Is A Threat To National Unity – Ijaw Leader

Ijaw leader Edwin Clark has warned there may be no Nigeria without zoning in 2023. The leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) said any attempt to scuttle the zoning policy may scuttle national unity. The former national commissioner, who spoke during an interview on Arise TV, said: “My idea of zoning the presidency to the South-East is well-known. No Nigerian will like to live in a country where certain people believe that they...

Akeredolu Calls On APC Leadership To Speak On Zoning

AKURE — Ondo Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has urged the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under Senator Abdullahi Adamu to immediately make a pronouncement on which zone will produce the presidential candidate of the party. Akeredolu said the principle of rotational representation guided the party’s leadership decision at the just-concluded national convention. Akeredolu, in a statement he personally signed in Akure, insisted that it was the turn of the South to produce the...

Survey Shows Osinbajo Preferred To Succeed Buhari Than Tinubu

A group, Intellectual Forum on Politic and Governance, has carried out a survey that shows that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is the preferred candidate to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari come 2023. The report had it that the survey was carried out by February, asked Nigerians to choose their favorite candidate between Osinbajo and the National Leader of the All Progressives, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and Former Vice President Abubakar,...

LAGOS — An expatriate, who is an Indian national, Devendra Singh, has allegedly committed suicide at his private office at Egbeyemi Street, in the Ilupeju area of Lagos State. Singh, who died at 42 was said to be a field worker at the Agro Nigeria Limited, in the Ikeja area, the capital of the state. It was learned that the victim’s driver had conveyed him to his office last Friday when the incident happened. Upon...

Muslims In Nigeria Celebrate Eid-Il-Fitr

Muslims in Nigeria on Monday joined their counterparts around the world to mark the Eid-El-Fitr – signalling the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. Eid-El-Fitr means “festival of breaking the fast” and celebrations would normally begin, depending on the sighting of the moon. The event is quite different this year from those of 2020 and 2021 which were celebrated lowkey amid measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. This year’s celebration coincides with the...

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