Day: April 5, 2022

Nigerian Varsities May Be Shut Longer Than Expected – ASUU

Abibat Babalola

Varsity lecturers’ union accuses NITDA of dashing students hope of quick return to school, sabotaging government’s effort to end strike   Academic Staff Union of Universities has warned that the Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)’s unpatriotic stance will prolong the ASUU strike and keep students out of school for a period longer than expected. The university union accused NITDA of lying that the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) failed the agency’s integrity tests. READ ALSO: Nigerian Varsities Remain Shut Till May As ASUU Extends Strike For 8 Weeks…

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God Told Me Atiku Not Tinubu Wil Be Nigeria’s Next President – Melaye

Aliyu Aliyu

Chief Raymond Dokpesi Hints At How North Not South’ll Clinch PDP’s Presidential Ticket     A former Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district, Dino Melaye, has said that God assured him of the emergence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar not any other person as Nigeria’s next president. A strong contender for the post is the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. Melaye said this on Monday at the Peoples Democratic Party national secretariat in Abuja when he, in company of the leader of the technical…

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Ask Your Cousin, Obasanjo, for Ige Murder, Omisore Tells Wole Soyinka

Gbenga Adeoti

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretary Senator Iyiola Omisore has accused people he described as “drowning politicians” of spreading propaganda against him. He lamented that a decade after the Bola Ige murder case, Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka still referred to him as a prime suspect, despite being cleared by the court. Omisore,  a former deputy governor of Osun State, said it was curious that Soyinka, who accused the Obasanjo government of complicity in Ige’s death when he described the government “as a nest of killers”, could now describe him…

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JAMB Hikes Mock-UTME Fee, Blames Rising Diesel Cost

Ganiyu Amodu

As a measure to prevent an interruption of power supply at any of its partnership centres, the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has announced an increase in the service charge for this year’s mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) over a hike in cost of power generation. JAMB said that the increase was to assist private-owned Computer-Based Tests (CBT) centres could meet up with their expenses while providing services for the development of the nation. In order to ensure implementation, the examination body noted that N400 has been added…

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