Day: June 11, 2022

ASUU Rejects Plan To Raise Fund Through Crowdfunding To End Strike

Abibat Babalola

The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has rejected a crowdfunding platform initiated to end the ongoing strike by lecturers of public universities in the country. The crowdfunding platform initiated by acclaimed philanthropist and owner of Human Rights Radio,Ahmed Isah,was aimed at raising money for the lecturers’ union with a view to ending the strike that has grounded academic activities in the nation’s public varsities. Ahmed Isah had invited the leadership of ASUU,led by its president,Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, to his station to intimate them of his efforts…

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Reactions as Video of Lagos Monarch Dancing Qdot Song Goes Viral

Abibat Babalola

“A Yahoo boy has graduated to the king,” A first class monarch in Lagos, Oniba of Ibaland, Oba Suleiman Adeshina alias “Jafo Authority,” has caused reactions on the social media as the video in which he bragged about his gold chain while dancing to a song by hiphop artiste, Qdot, has gone viral. Platforms Africa reports that the young monarch became the Oniba after the demise of his predecessor, Oba Goriola Yishau Oseni, who went to join his ancestors on the 25th of May 2020 after a successful 45 years…

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My Life Is Destroyed, Nurse Narrates How She Lost both Legs in Owo Attack

Abibat Babalola

Mrs. Margaret Attah gets NANNM donation, supports The story of Mrs. Margaret Attah, a nurse who lost both legs during the terrorists attack at the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, has continued to elicit pity and support. The National President of National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) Comrade Michael Nnachi, has donated cash to the nurse. Nnachi who led other executive members of the association to visit the victim at the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, condemned the unprovoked attack in entirety while praying for quick…

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Don’t Leave Nigeria to Those Who’ll Mess It Up, Obasanjo Tasks Youths

Gbenga Adeoti

Nigeria’s ex-President empowers youths with 85 tricycles Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday challenged Nigerian youths not to abandon the country to “those who are messing it up.” Platforms Africa reports that Obasanjo told the youths to hold their future in their hands with a firm belief that “today is their day,” as against the famous cliché – youths are the leaders of tomorrow. He spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun State, at an event tagged “OBJ @85 Free Keke Programme,” where 85 tricycles (Keke) were distributed to beneficiaries as part of…

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UK To Fly 1st Planeload of 31 Illegal Immigrants to Rwanda Tuesday

Nurudeen Oyewole

“Partnership (with Rwanda) will help break the business model of these ruthless criminals,’ Johnson tweeted as Prince Charles lampoons plan to send illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Syria, Nigeria, others to Rwanda: Report Britain’s Prince Charles has called the government’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda appalling,’ a report said Saturday after it cleared a legal challenge. The UK government intends to fly the first planeload of 31 claimants to Rwanda on Tuesday – shortly before Charles is due to represent his mother Queen Elizabeth II at a Commonwealth summit in…

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Nigeria Records 10 Fresh Monkeypox Cases, Suspected Cases Hit 110 – NCDC

Precious Ibekwe

“From January 1 to 5 June, 2022, there have been 110 suspected cases in total and 31 confirmed cases from 12 states.”   The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC ) has recorded 10 additional Monkeypox cases in the last seven days in the country. The NCDC disclosed this via it’s official website, in its latest monkeypox situation report released on Friday. READ ALSO: Don’t Eat Bush Meat, Govt Begs Nigerians As MonkeyPox Kills One, Infects 21 US Denies Existence of Monkeypox-Spreading Secret Biolabs In Nigeria Confusion, Fears Trail Report…

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Stop Generating Political Megawatt, Consumers to Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, Others

ADEOLA YUSUF

Millions of electricity consumers in Nigeria have declared that they were tired of political megawatts that have, in the past, been generated by politicians, tasking the presidential candidates of all the major political parties to desist from it. Rising under the auspices of the Nigeria Consumer Protection Network, the consumers specifically mentioned the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; candidate of the NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso; and the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.…

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Russia, China Open $342m Cross-Border Bridge as Ties Deepen

Nurudeen Oyewole

“In today’s divided world, the Blagoveshchensk-Heihe bridge between Russia and China carries a special symbolic meaning.”   Russia and China have opened a new cross-border bridge in the Far East that they hope will further strengthen trade as Moscow reels from sweeping Western sanctions imposed over its actions in Ukraine. The bridge linking the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk to the Chinese city of Heihe across the Amur River – known in China as the Heilongjiang – is about 1km long and cost 19 billion roubles ($342m), the RIA news agency…

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Ogun ABAT Movement Rallies Support For Tinubu

Abibat Babalola

The Ogun State Chapter of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Movement of Nigeria and the Diaspora, ABAT, has congratulated the national leader of All Progressives Congress,APC,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his emergence as the the party’s flag bearer in the 2023 Presidential election. The group conveyed the congratulatory message in a statement jointly signed by the Director -General of Ogun state chapter of ABAT, Otunba Femi Soluade,and chairman of the group,Cardinal James Omolaja Odunmbaku, made available to newsmen. The group expressed that the huge support given to Asiwaju Tinubu during the…

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