The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) on Wednesday called off its 10-Month strike, ending a protracted industrial action that started since March 2020. ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi made the announcement during a briefing of the union in Abuja. He said ASUU called off the strike in the interest of Nigerian students and parents. Details shortly…
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Nigeria has recorded four fatalities with a total of 999 new cases of the deadly COVID-19, making the total of infected cases rise to 79,789, the number of deaths to hit 1,231. This was announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its daily update on Tuesday night. According to the centre, the tests of 999 suspected cases came back positive. While 396 patients were discharged, 4 new fatalities were recorded. The NCDC added that the discharges included 254 community recoveries in Lagos State managed in line…
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Senator Anthony Adefuye, a chieftain of the Nigeria’s ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC), and an associate of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, one of the strong contenders for Presidency, on Tuesday said it is the turn of the South-West, mostly populated by the Yoruba ethnic group, to produce the President of Nigeria in 2023 as the only region that is yet to do so since the return of democratic governance to the country in 1999. Speaking in an interview with Lagos-based INDEPENDENT newspaper, Adefuye said those clamouring for the Presidency…
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Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, has unveiled plans to hijack planned “EndASUU protest to destroy public and private property or lecturers homes,” insisting that organisers of the protest “will be disappointed.” The Nigerian Government, Ngige insisted, would disappoint all those who were waiting to embark on an EndASUU protest by mid January 2021, should government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), fail to arrive at a compromise. Ngige, who spoke on Tuesday shortly before stepping into a closed door meeting with the leadership…
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Here is what you need to know about 501.V2, new strain of COVID-19 never witnessed anywhere in the World before, which is presently rocking South Africa. Countries block travel after South African health officials say new variant is dominant among recently confirmed infections. South Africa is facing increasing isolation as more countries ban travel over the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus. Israel, Turkey, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland are among countries that have halted air travel to and from South Africa following the announcement that…
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The Nigeria Secret Service, Department of State Services (DSS), has alerted of plans by enemies of the state to unleash terror on vulnerable places such as critical infrastructure, places of worship like Churches and Mosques, as well as recreational centres during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. According to the DSS, the planned dastardly acts are to be executed through the use of explosives, suicide bombing and other dangerous weapons. Spokesperson for the Service, Dr. Peter Afunanya, who raised the alarm in a statement, Tuesday, said the ultimate aim…
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The Nigerian Government has announced a fresh plan for temporary and full shut down of two important tranport links to Lagos, the commercial capital. Federal Controller of Works for Lagos, Olukayode Popoola, announced a 72-hour total closure of the Third Mainland Bridge to cast concrete on the expansion joints. Popoola announced this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday. He said the shutdown will take effect from midnight on Saturday to midnight on Tuesday. He added that construction works had reached the stage for casting…
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