Month: September 2022

Viral video: LAUTECH Alumni Gift Graduate N500,000

ADEOLA YUSUF

A social media skitmaker and graduate of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Osunleke Alaba, has been presented with a cheque of N500,000 by the school’s alumni association. Alaba trended a few days ago after he approached the university in tears for not being able to do anything with the certificate he got from the school years after graduating. According to him, his parents took loans to fund his schooling and could not continue to sustain him with such, adding that…

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Examining Uju Anya’s vitriol on Queen Elizabeth II, By Festus Adedayo

ADEOLA YUSUF

Like a prude confronted with sexually explicit images, the world didn’t hide its shock at Nigerian-born American professor, Uju Anya’s negative comments last week on the late British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The world had waited with bated breath at manifest indications that Elizabeth’s last hours had come. Amid this apprehension, the associate professor of Applied Linguistics, Critical Sociolinguistics and Critical Discourse at Carnegie Mellon University launched her salvo. It came in the form of a tweet that brimmed with bile and hate. She had tweeted: “I heard the chief…

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How Brazilian Returnee Excreted 92 Wraps Of Cocaine At Abuja Airport –NDLEA

ADEOLA YUSUF

A 53-year-old Brazilian returnee, Okolie Nwabueze, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for allegedly importing 92 wraps of cocaine. Mr Nwabueze, a father of two, ingested the drugs and eventually excreted them after days under observation in the agency’s facility. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja. READ ALSO: SANs, Profs To Defend ASUU Before Industrial Court Energy Transition: NLNG Delivers 5,400 Cargoes…

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SANs, Profs To Defend ASUU Before Industrial Court

ADEOLA YUSUF

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities who are Senior Advocates of Nigeria and Professors of Law among others will be defending the union as the case instituted by the Federal Government at the National Industrial Court comes up for hearing on Monday (today). The PUNCH reports that the Federal Government had dragged the union before the NIC over its ongoing strike which started on February 14, 2022. The union is demanding, among others, the release of the revitalisation fund for universities, release of earned allowances for university lecturers,…

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Energy Transition: NLNG Delivers 5,400 Cargoes In 21yrs

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigeria LNG (NLNG) Limited has said the company has delivered over 5,400 liquefied natural gas, LNG, cargoes to its customers around the world since it commenced operation 21 years ago. It also disclosed that it is evaluating how it can support Nigeria’s energy transition journey, adding that it’s already implementing studies on Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS), hydrogen electrification. Deputy Managing Director, NLNG, Olalekan Ogunleye, stated this while speaking during a panel on “Molecules and electrons: Managing the new agenda for growth”, at the GASTECH exhibition and conference…

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Why We’re Dragging ASUU To Industrial Court – Ngige

ADEOLA YUSUF

The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government in a letter dated September 8, 2022 has insisted that only an industrial court action against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will end the over six months strike. The letter containing the charges was sent to the court on September 9, 2022. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, in a suit he filed against the university teachers union at the Abuja industrial court said ASUU has been adamant despite the fact that the body had recognised the damage which the prolonged…

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Samuel Eto’o Changes Cameroon FA Constitution, Extends Tenure To 7 Years

ADEOLA YUSUF

The new law will see Eto’o Fils’ tenure extended from four years to 7 years and might see the former African footballer of the year stay in office for 21 years President of the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) Samuel Eto’o Fils has changed the constitution of the football association, which might see the former African footballer of the year stay in office for 21 years. Samuel Eto’o who retired from international football as one of the legend of the game ran for the office of the football association amidst fanfare…

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Queen Elizabeth: Saint or Satan?, By Tunde Odesola

ADEOLA YUSUF

When two horses gallop without the clippity-clop sound of thudding hooves, chances are they are floating. Yes, the two white stallions charioting Queen Elizabeth floated towards Heaven’s Gate in a cloud of fire amid the evergreen Christian song, “Across the Bridge,” made popular by the late American country music singer, Jim Reeves. Clad in her trademark hat, diamond-embedded suit, and gold-encrusted white gloves, she waved her right hand slowly as the chariot wafted through white and blue clouds while the song, “Across the Bridge, there’s no more sorrow…,” played in…

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US Declares Nigerian Man Wanted For Defrauding New York Of $30m

ADEOLA YUSUF

29 year-old allegedly defrauded US hospitals of $31 million by offering non-existent COVID-19 ventilators for sale. A 29-year-old Nigerian man, Chidozie Collins Obasi, has been declared wanted in the United States for alleged fraud. The Nigerian is accused of allegedly defrauding US hospitals of $31 million by offering non-existent COVID-19 ventilators for sale. This was disclosed in a statement by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday. READ ALSO: Three Students Of Ojukwu Varsity Found Dead In Their Hostel BREAKING: I won’t attend Queen’s Elizabeth’s funeral – Putin Nationwide…

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Three Students Of Ojukwu Varsity Found Dead In Their Hostel

ADEOLA YUSUF

Three students of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU Anambra State were at the weekend found dead in their hostel at the Igbariam campus of the institution. The three female students were identified as Obidiaso Chidera (200 level Political Science), Mercy (200 level Pharmacy) and Emmanuella (200 level Business Administration). READ ALSO: How Kwara State Varsity Student-Lovers Were Found Dead, Corpses Naked Charles III Officially Proclaimed Britain’s King ASUU: Nigeria Hikes Varsity Lecturers Salary By 23.5% The cause of their deaths has not been ascertained , although some people in the…

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