CHELSEA boss, Thomas Tuchel, has released his side’s squad to face Dinamo Zagreb in an away Champions League group stage tie on Tuesday night. Tuchel named a 23-man Chelsea squad that included the likes of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Denis Zakaria to face Zagreb. Chelsea head to the game following a …

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has warned lecturers involved in the business of sex-for-marks to desist from their nefarious activities or be ready to face public disgrace and exposure. The President of NANS, Mr. Usman Barambu made the call while addressing a press conference on Monday in Abuja. …

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has revealed that the terrorists that attacked the Kuje Correctional facility disarmed 31 military personnel protecting the prison. Mr Aregbesola claimed that the personnel, which comprised the Army, Air Force, NSCDC and others were heavily armed but still failed to defend the facilities. The …

The Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has removed its chairman, Ibrahim Bilal. Twenty-five members of the State’s 36-member State Executive Committee signed a petition, on the strength of which the Exco effected the chairman’s removal on Monday. The executives subsequently swore in the state Deputy Chairman, …

Over N207m and Є17,598 discovered in his bank accounts The Federal Government has uncovered 14 assets, including shopping malls, a residential estate, a polo playground, lands, and farmland belonging to a former commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police. Kyari was said to have failed to …

The Federal Government has suspended its proposed excise duty on telecommunication services. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami announced this on Monday during the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Committee on Excise Duty for the Digital Economy Sector in Abuja. The minister said that the telecommunications sector …

THE National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Monday constituted an eight-man Caretaker Committee to pilot the affairs of the party. Recall that 27 State Chairmen of the ADC, during a NEC meeting of the party held last Wednesday called on Nwosu to vacate office following …

A coalition of Civil Society Organisation under the umbrella of Saving Our Vote has urged the Senate to reject the nomination of partisan and unqualified persons as Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had in his letter to the Senate …

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has denied ownership of some properties in Lagos linked to him. Such properties include Oriental Hotel and Civic Center. Mr Tinubu, in a documentary on his achievements as Lagos State Governor, said he only provided the environment for investors to invest …

SOME of the most prevalent challenges confronting public tertiary institutions in Nigeria are funding, management problems, obsolete equipment, poor learning facilities and infrastructure. Chief among these that deals the worst blow is funding. Most of the public tertiary institutions in the country are grossly underfunded. When there were just a …