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Emmanuel Osodeke, president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says he felt disappointed over the comment made by Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and employment, on the union’s ongoing strike. Osodeke spoke on Monday during an interview with Channels Television. ASUU has been on strike since February 14 […]

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-political organisation, has accused the presidency of “ethnic prejudice” regarding the latter’s recent comment on attacks in the south-east. Communities in the south-east have come under attacks in recent months, with the latest being the invasion of a police station in Agwa, Oguta LGA of Imo state, which […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the acquisition of ExxonMobil Corporation assets by Seplat Energy Plc despite moves by the state-owned oil company to block the deal. In February, Seplat had entered into an agreement to acquire the entire share capital of MPNU from Exxon Mobil. But the deal was blocked by Nigerian […]

Joshua Dariye, former governor of Plateau, and Jolly Nyame, former governor of Taraba, have been released from the correctional facility in Kuje council area, federal capital territory (FCT). The development comes almost four months after the former governors were granted state pardon. At a council of state meeting presided over by President […]

Death is the most daring foe of humanity. It knocks on your door uninvited and spares no one — not even great men — when it sounds its hapless call. But it is an inevitable end for humans. On Thursday, it visited Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje, Nigeria’s foremost professor of geography, leaving his admirers in […]

Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has reacted to a video showing some members of Pyrates Confraternity mocking Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In the video which has gone viral on social media, some members of the group dressed in red and white attire, can be seen yelling out critical […]

Valentine Obienyem, media aide of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says the former governor is not a member of the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), better known as the Pyrates Confraternity. Obienyem responded to the claims of the membership of the LP presidential candidate in a terse text message […]

Nigeria’s electricity grid suffered 222 partial and total system collapses from January 2010 to June 2022. According to Thisday, an analysis of industry data — mostly from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) — from January 2010 to September 2021 showed that the grid suffered 216 system collapses. It added that information […]

A federal high court in Abuja has fixed September 7 to hear a suit seeking the disqualification of Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), from contesting in the 2023 elections. The plaintiffs, four APC chieftains, are asking the court to rule that Tinubu is ineligible to run for president in […]