The Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) chapter chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Comrade Chinedu Ihejirika, has been sacked. It was gathered that Ihejirika and members of his cabinet were dismissed over failure to present the congress with financial reports for about two years.   Speaking …

Nasarawa State Government has disclosed receipt of Federal Government palliatives awaiting disbursement to mitigate the impact of fuel subsidy removal in the country. Governor Abdullahi Sule acknowledged this during a visit to the Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, at his residence on Friday in …

The African Union has pledged support to the West African community of nations, ECOWAS. The union’s chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat, in a statement, said he stands behind the group’s response to the coup in Niger.   After a key summit in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on Thursday, ECOWAS instructed its military …

On Thursday, former Deputy National Public­ity Secretary of the All Progres­sives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank alleged that Nigerian Senators received N35 million while principal officers got N50 million each for their annual vacation. Reports recalls Senate President Godswill Akpabio had on Monday night told Senators that the clerk of …

The Nigerian Army has said it has no partnership with ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, or his security outfit. The ex-militant leader had in an interview on a Podcast anchored by Channels Television’s Seun Okinbaloye claimed he had a military company engaged by the government to work alongside the …

A chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), in Nasarawa State, Mohd Agwai (Shettiman Keffi) has started that the fear and insinuations that the 10th Senate under the leadership of Senator Godswill Akpabio would be a rubber-stamped were untrue, saying that Akpabio as an epitome of unity will harmonise …

Popular singer Simisola Kosoko aka Simi has cried out about the excruciating economic hardship in the country. She said the situation in Nigeria breaks her “heart a little more everyday. The ‘Stranger’ crooner out of worry, wonders how the average Nigerians are coping with the current economic downward of the …

A public interest lawyer, Maxwell Okpara, has vowed to file a N20 billion suit against Twitter to be joined by the Department of State Services, DSS, for the service’s tweet describing him as an “overzealous and uninformed IPOB/ESN lawyer. The lawyer also said he has written to Twitter, known as …

The South East All Progressives Congress (APC) Zonal Executive has expressed appreciation to Senator Tony Nwoye, who represents Anambra North Senatorial District under the Labour Party (LP), for advocating for additional ministerial slots for the South East region in the cabinet of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The APC zonal executive …

Adamant Niger Republic junta got a stern warning yesterday from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): reinstate President Mohammed Bazoum or face military action. The sub-regional body put its standby force on red alert, a decision taken at its second successive extra-ordinary meeting in one week on last …