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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ambrose Alli University (AAU) Ekpoma Chapter, has called on the Edo State Government to intervene and settle the crisis of non-payment of staff salaries in the institution.
Nigeria

ASUU: Last encounter with Nigerian government’s team was no meeting

August 17, 2022
The suspended Nnewi North local government chairman, Mbazulike Iloka, has been arrested. He was arrested on Wednesday, following the alleged link to his wife’s death.
Metro

Suspended Anambra council chairman held over wife’s death

August 17, 2022
The opening of the school in partnership with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the Company management reasoned, would also make the drivers become better road users.
Nigeria

FRSC official allegedly stabs driver to death in Abia

August 17, 2022
A former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, says he has never seen the country in such a “bad shape” as it is now.
Politics

Atiku Abubakar: Reckless, endless borrowing will lead to disaster

August 16, 2022
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, on Sunday, assured that the party will reclaim leadership in at least 25 states of the country in 2023.
Politics

PDP crisis: Iyorchia Ayu dismisses ‘resignation’ claims as malicious, reckless

August 16, 2022
The All Progressive Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Jigawa South West District, Tijjani Ibrahim has reportedly died in a Chinese hospital where he was undergoing treatment for lung infection.
Politics

2023: Jigawa APC senatorial candidate passes on in China

August 14, 2022
Gunmen, who attacked Maranatha Baptist Church and St Moses Catholic Church in Robuh, Ungwan Aku, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Sunday, have demanded N100m ransom for the 36 worshippers in their custody.
Metro

Gunmen kidnap Catholic priest in Abia, demand ₦50 million ransom

August 14, 2022
A student of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, Happiness Odeh, has been reportedly killed by her abductors.
Nigeria

Ogun polytechnic student abducted, killed by kidnappers

August 13, 2022
A Nigerian police officer holds a bunch of handcuffs in Abuja on October 3, 2020. Sodiq Adelakun-Channels TV
Nigeria

Lagos: Police arrest driver, guarantor for ‘stealing’ employer’s vehicle

August 12, 2022
The Director-General of the DMO, Patience Oniha, said this in a telephone interview with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja.The Director-General of the DMO, Patience Oniha, said this in a telephone interview with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja.
Finance

DMO raises interest rate on treasury bills, sells ₦150 billion bills

August 12, 2022
The Ikechi Emenike faction of the All Progressive Congress (APC), could Saturday, not hold it’s planned rally in the Abia State capital, Umuahia, ostensibly as a result of the threat from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), warning against such gathering. (APC Nigeria)
Politics

Borno APC confirms suspension of Mohammed Kumalia over anti-party activities

August 10, 2022
Air Peace’s personnel again foiled an attempt to traffick two babies by a man and a woman at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Terminal 2 (MMA2) Lagos.
Transport

Air Peace announces suspension of flight operations to Johannesburg

August 10, 2022
The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, yesterday debunked statements suggesting that the COVID-19 vaccines administered in Nigeria were not approved by the UK.
Nigeria

Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer writes British envoy Catriona Laing

August 10, 2022
Another case of the dreaded Monkey-pox disease has been recorded in Abia State, thus, bringing to four, the total number of cases so far recorded in the state according to Ministry source.
Metro

Abia records another case of Monkey-pox

August 9, 2022
The Catholic Bishop of Uyo Diocese, John Ebebe Ayah, has explained why he ‘rejected’ Governor Ben Ayade’s largesse during a Thanksgiving mass held on Sunday in Calabar.
Nigeria

Catholic Bishop: Why I rejected Ben Ayade’s largesse

August 9, 2022
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