The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Saturday, declared that its members are not in a hurry to call off the prolonged industrial action. Dr Edor J. Edor, the ASUU Chairman of University of Calabar said lecturers are determined to ensure that the challenges of universities are substantially resolved. In an exclusive interview with […]
The U.S. has withdrawn from the Open Skies Treaty due to non-compliance by Russia, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said on Sunday, making good on a planned move by the outgoing Donald Trump administration. The move was immediately criticized by a top Democrat, who urged President-elect Joe Biden to reverse the decision next year. “Today, […]
The meeting between the Federal Government and the organised labour on the hikes in fuel pump price and the electricity tariff on Sunday ended in confusion as the labour leaders walked out of the parley in anger. The dialogue which was meant to take updates on the implementation of resolutions reached during the three previous […]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the Okoro-Nu-Odu flyover area in Rumuokoro, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, due to the rise in cult activities and related violence. The governor also warned that government would spare no efforts to deal appropriately with anyone who decided to disturb the peace and security in […]
A court in the United Kingdom has heard that Britain’s ‘worst paedophile’ Richard Huckle (pictured top left), 33, who abused around 200 vulnerable youngsters, was strangled with a cable, stabbed in the brain with a pen and sexually assaulted by a fellow prisoner who wanted him to ‘feel what all those children felt’. Richard Huckle […]
President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi on Thursday November 19 disclosed that private universities are now recruiting some of its members due to the inability of the Federal Government to meet its demands amid an ongoing strike which has lasted for months. Ogunyemi reiterated that the government cannot threaten the university lecturers […]
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has urged filmmakers to always seek proper approval before using corps members’ uniform in their movies. NYSC Assistant Director of Legal Services, Christian Oru, said this in Lagos at a meeting between National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) and creative industry stakeholders on enabling laws and strengthening of […]
Ethiopia’s army chief on Thursday accused World Health Organisation boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – the country’s highest-profile Tigrayan abroad – of lobbying to send arms and support to leaders in the dissident region. Gen Birhanu Jula told reporters on Wednesday that the WHO director-general had urged unnamed neighbours to “oppose the war and for [the […]
