Author: Asionye Augusta

Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered the release of prisoners with military experience willing to fight the Russians. This was made known to the public by Ukraine’s president during a speech in the country’s capital Kyiv on Monday. As a Ukrainian delegation and Russian representatives meet for peace talks at the Belarusian border, the president called on Russian soldiers in Ukraine to lay down their arms.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has vowed not to call off the one-month warning strike despite students’ protests. The President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, President of the union, made this known while speaking on Channels TV on Monday. According to him, the union would not call off the strike it started on February 14 because the Federal Government is making empty promises, adding that they want action. “For the past nine years or so, they have been giving us promises but once the strike is over, they relapse. So, our colleagues are tired of these promises which they…

Following the late signing of the Electoral Act by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has moved the 2023 Presidential election from February 18th to February 25th, 2023. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Commission, made the announcement on Saturday at a news conference in Abuja. He stated that the Presidential and National Assembly elections will now take place on Saturday, February 25th, 2023, with gubernatorial and state house of assembly elections taking place on March 11th, 2023. Given the reason for the new date for the 2023 election, he explained it would ensure compliance with the…

Dr. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, has given the reason why it is hard for Federal Government to increase Lecturers’ salaries. According to him, any increase in allowances and salaries that is proposed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities and is not in accordance with the National Salaries and Wages Commission will not be implemented. The minister also advised the union to work with the National Salaries, Income, and Wages Commission and the Presidential Steering Committee on Salaries and Wages to achieve the best results. According to news reports, ASUU and the Federal Government have begun a…

Mr. Olasupo Shasore, SAN, a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Olasupo is being questioned by EFCC agents about his involvement in the Process & Industrial Development scam. He had previously been questioned by the anti-agency about the allegations leveled against him. According to a reliable source, the senior lawyer arrived at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja on the 18th of January, 2022, and was interrogated for several hours. Despite receiving a $2 million professional fee from the Federal Government, Shasore was accused of botching the case…

Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan, the Federation’s Civil Service Head, stated on Monday that NMA, ASUU as well as their affiliates, were not recognized labor unions in the public sector. She added that the Federal Government was thinking about establishing two new councils in the education and health sectors. Yemi-Esan said this during the opening of the separate and joint meetings of the national public service negotiating councils, which were attended by Dr. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, and Ayuba Wabba, National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress. According to the HOS, she said that maintaining industrial harmony in any…

Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim, Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC DG, has expressed condolences to the people of Ogbomoso on the death of their monarch, His Royal Majesty, Oba Jimoh Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III. NYSC Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations, Emeka Mgbemena, the service’s Director-General, Major Gen. Ibrahim, commiserated with the entire town particularly the immediate family, on the death of the revered monarch. Also, he prayed for his soul’s repose. Please accept our heartfelt condolences, Ibrahim added on behalf of the entire NYSC family. The NYSC had recently shown their condolences on the monarch’s death…

Amnesty International, a global human rights organization, has welcomed the Federal Government’s lifting of the ban on the social media platform Twitter. This is coming after FG announced the suspension of the ban placed on the microblogging platform, Twitter. It was revealed in a press statement issued on Wednesday by Kashifu Abdullahi, Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency and Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement. Reacting to the development, Amnesty International stated that the Twitter ban was illegal in the first place and an attack on the right to free expression. The group urged Nigerian authorities to take swift actions…

Protesters in branded solidarity shirts, believed to be Ijaw indigenes, have assembled at Dowen College in Lekki, Lagos, to demand that the institution remain closed. Dowen College is where five pupils were accused of assaulting a 12-year-old colleague, Sylvester Oromoni, for refusing to join a cult group. In addition to the beating, Oromoni, who died later, was reported to have been given a chemical substance to consume. The five students and five staff members of the school involved in his death were acquitted on Wednesday by the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution. Adetutu Oshinusi, the Director of the DPP,…

The Defence Headquarter has revealed that forces in various operations across the country killed 1910 terrorists, and kidnappers, among others, between May 20, 2021 and January 6, 2022. This was made known to the public by acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Major Gen. Bernard Onyeuko during a briefing in Abuja on Thursday. He also stated that a total of 912 criminal elements were detained, and that troops discovered a significant stockpile of weaponry and ammunition, among other things, during the period. Onyeuko added that from 20th May 2021 to 6th January 2022, the Armed Forces of Nigeria neutralized 1,910…